traditionally used in forestry economics reflect. This essay analyses some challenges of accounting for such complexity. When forest …Recent research in natural sciences shows that boreal forests' dynamics are much more complex than what many models … forest's initial state. For some initial states, two different strategies may yield the same welfare. If whole stand …

Deforestation in the North western part of Pakistan is a long standing problem. The Forestry Department, as formal … managers of the forest resources, has been undergoing a long reform process aimed at improving its performance. This reform … further reform the Forestry Department, the question is whether organizational reform is the answer. We think there are more …

ecosystems provide to society. Based on this framework, we first compile market and non-market forest valuation studies and … results show that biodiversity loss is having an effect on forest ecosystem values. In addition, these effects reveal to be …

Method. With the .first method forest surface increases more, but using mainly eucalyptus. With the second, additional …

The paper reviews the main inadequacies of the Italian current System of National Accounting for the forestry sector … presents two case studies of environmental accounting of forestry resources at regional/national level: the first one is an … economic estimate of the role of the forestry sector in the Liguria Region (north-west Italy). The proposed satellite system of …

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 … values corresponding to Mediterranean forests. By contrast, the model shows that boreal forests and savannahs must experience …

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 … with the creation of nature reserves in all the Irish forests currently without one. The yearly impact on visitors …

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 … difference for 26 recreational forests in Ireland, when the value transfer is based on single and double-bounded data collected …

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