The Laboratory of Forestry economics (LEF) was created in 2000 as a joint research unit of the French Institute of Forestry, Agricultural and Environmental Engineering (ENGREF) and the National Institute of Agronomic research (INRA). The mission of the LEF is to conceive, develop, and transfer...

In this paper, we use a cost-benefit approach in order to compare existing treatments to prevent the invasion of three pathogens (Hylobius abietis, Dothistroma septospora and Dothistroma pini, Heterobasibion annosum) in Landes forest, in the South-West of France. Our results show that for...

The impact of the safety-net use of Common-pool resources (CPR) on the individual investment into and extraction from the commons is analyzed in this paper. Agents of the community first choose to invest in their private project and in the CPR; second, they choose how much to extract from their...

This paper provides an economic analysis of timber species change as a tool for adapting forests to climate change. We use the framework of cost-benefit analysis, taking uncertainty into account both exogenously, via sensitivity analysis, and endogenously, via (quasi-)option value calculations....