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 …

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 …

Around 20 years ago, Tanzania adopted the policy of participatory forest management (PFM) to create incentives for … increasing villagers’ participation in forest management. The timing is thus fitting to reflect on the achievements and … in terms of actual participation and forest management practices. This working paper presents experiences with PFM from a …

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 …

Entwicklungen sind dagegen unter anderem in China zu sehen. Dort wurde 2002 ein über zehn Jahre laufendes nationales …

This paper provides a theoretical framework to study the behavioral and welfare effects of forest conservation, which … in a Cournot rivalry with the foreign forest industry. More specifically, we study how forest industry’s competitiveness … constrains forest conservation and whether the “green image” demand resulting from forest conservation compensates the loss in …