economic approaches is undertaken for the Boreal Forest Natural Region of Alberta, Canada. We find a significant increase in …

traditionally used in forestry economics reflect. This essay analyses some challenges of accounting for such complexity. When forest … forest's initial state. For some initial states, two different strategies may yield the same welfare. If whole stand …

carbon offsets as part of climate change mitigation. Analyzing optimal contracts for forest carbon sequestration, an …. The results indicate that for an increase in forest area of 50 million acres, annual government expenditures with optimal …

forest resources account is based on a Geographical Information System (GIS) comprising an extremely diversified set of …, Contingent Valuation, reconstruction costs, opportunity costs, etc.). Production of wood and non-wood forest products, soil … damage costs from forest fires occurring in Italy over the past eleven years. Official statistical data related to financial …

We show in this paper how the characteristics of fire recurrence in forests can be theoretically derived from simple … information concerning forest morphology. The task is accomplished by means of a minimal model encapsulating a few assumptions on … the interactions between overstorey and understorey species and on the mechanisms of fire development and transmission …

Data from a large-scale contingent valuation study are used to investigate the effects of forest attributes on … willingness to pay for forest recreation in Ireland. In particular, the presence of a nature reserve in the forest is found to …

We investigate the reliability of transferring benefit estimates of forest recreation obtained from discrete choice CV … data and conditional on forest-specific attributes. The transfer reliability is checked against the forest …

hectare estimates of the economic value of some selected ecosystem services for all forest biomes in the world, identified …

In this study we estimate the passive use value of forest in different ecological zones in the Mediterranean region. We … hectare for each country. The total annual amount of passive use value of the Mediterranean forest is about one billion … international dollars. The estimated passive use value of the forest from this study can be used to account for the social welfare …