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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 …
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hectare estimates of the economic value of some selected ecosystem services for all forest biomes in the world, identified …
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should enhance public awareness, promote forest-based small and medium enterprises, and involve indigenous and local …
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(urban) forest land, starting from the multifunctional role of these new forests. We start with a simple presentation of the …, such as tree planting and forest management on the one hand and opportunity costs on the other hand. On the benefit side we … values. Non-use and option values capture forest benefits that are independent from the actual use made of the forest area …
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analyze the stage of present forestry resources and provide the reason for economists to take into account the limits in …
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In modern societies individuals often try to alleviate their personal damages from environmental degradation by increasing their consumption of private goods. Although this “self-protective” behavior is very frequent in industrial economies, insufficient attention has been paid to its...
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Despite substantial conservation investments by governments and international agencies, the existence of tigers in the wild is still threatened. The main threats to the survival of wild tigers are poaching, prey depletion, and habitat degradation and fragmentation. All international trade in...
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Most research and funding in conservation has been oriented toward biodiversity per se. Until recently there has been little tangible effort in linking conservation to ecosystem service provision. Nevertheless, this trend seems to be changing due in part to the relative success of payment...
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The Mexican Ethanol Project has the potential of power up rural economy, improve the environment quality, and substitute the non-renewable fossil energy resources. But the risk of not achieving these is latent: the market distorts that it could unleash can change the expected outcomes. Public...
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