This article studies in an overlapping generations forest economy the conditions under which money and/or timber … preferences for consumption and for amenities from unharvested forest stock. Within this framework, we examine conditions under …

Forest transition theory is often used to describe the long term evolution of forest cover in a country as it develops …, yet previous theoretical work has considered only net forest cover change when describing deforestation. However, little … work exists describing the dynamics involved in forest cover change, particularly the relationship between reductions in …

operators. Our study provides a framework for understanding forest reclamation decisions that incorporates incentives faced by … the mine operators who develop and implement the plans for mine reclamation, including forestry. …

This paper studies optimal forest policies in an overlapping generations forest economy with one-sided altruism, where … timber and monetary bequests can be made across generations and forest amenities are a public good. We extend the existing …-landowners have full access to forest stocks to enjoy amenities. The results support the argument that bequests and forest stocks must …

We propose a framework with endogenous allocation of land between agricultural production, sustainable forest … management, and unsustainable forest exploitation in the form of illegal logging to explore deforestation and agricultural and … sustainably-managed forest land, and through illegal logging activities on frontier native forest land. Confiscation risk is shown …

We extend existing stand-level models of forest landowner behavior in the presence of fire risk to include the level …