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Optimal forest management when logging damages and costs differ between logging practices
Indrajaya, Yonky; Van der Werf, Edwin; Ierland, Ekko C. van - 2014
Papers on optimal harvesting regimes for maximizing land expectation value (LEV) that compare different logging practices often ignore differences in variable costs and in damages on the residual stand between logging practices. We use data on a multi-age, multi-species forest in East-Kalimantan...
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On optimal forest management : a bifurcation analysis
Dasgupta, Swagan; Mitra, Tapan - 2010
The paper examines the theory of optimal forest management with a view to describing its transition dynamics. In contrast to the literature's emphasis on long-run behavior of optimally managed forests, we focus on the nature of the optimal policy function, which describes the harvesting and...
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Afforestation and timber management compliance strategies in climate policy : a computable general equilibrium analysis
Michetti, Melania; Nunes Rosa, Renato - 2011
This paper analyzes the role of afforestation-reforestation and timber management activities, and their major and secondary economic effects in stabilizing climate during the first commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. In particular, with a Computable General Equilibrium framework, the ICES...
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Optimal forest taxation under private and social amenity valuation
Koskela, Erkki; Ollikainen, Markku - 2001
This paper analyzes socially optimal forest taxation when the government has a binding tax revenue requirement. In the Faustmann model the optimal design of forest taxation consists of non-distortionary taxes, such as site productivity tax, site value tax or profit tax. A combination of...
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The potential of REDD+ for carbon sequestration in tropical forests : supply curves for carbon storage for Kalimantan, Indonesia
Indrajaya, Yonky; Van der Werf, Edwin; Weikard, Hans-Peter - 2015
incentives from REDD+. The use of reduced impact logging techniques (RIL) allows a forest owner to apply for carbon credits … higher fixed costs. We find that a system of carbon credits through REDD+ has a large potential for carbon storage …
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Leveraging global climate finance for sustainable forests : opportunities and conditions for successful foreign aid to the forestry sector
Pascual, Unai; Garmendia, Eneko; Phelps, Jacob; Ojea, Elena - 2013
through foreign aid mechanisms towards Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+). This paper … addresses key questions regarding the potential of REDD+ to support sustainable forest management in the context of complex …. -- sustainable forest management ; foreign aid ; official development assistance ; climate change finance ; REDD+ ; forestry sector …
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Payment for ecosystem services from forests
Alix Garcia, Jennifer M.; Wolff, Hendrik - 2014
Every year between 2000 and 2010, our planet lost native forests roughly the size of Costa Rica. (FAO, 2010). This rapid deforestation has dramatically changed the chemical composition of the world's atmosphere, the level of biodiversity, and the presence of vegetation key to maintaining...
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On the economics of forest carbon : renewable and carbon neutral but not emission free
Lintunen, Jussi; Uusivuori, Jussi Ilkka - 2014 - This version: November 26, 2013
First-best optimal forest sector carbon policy is examined. Using a comprehensive forest sector model with a detailed carbon cycle section we show that the renewability and carbon neutrality arguments do not warrant emission free treatment of forest bioenergy. However, under the biomass stock...
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Population growth and forest sustainability in Africa
Asongu, Simplice A.; Jingwa, Brian A. - 2011
Recent distressing trends in climate change, population explosion and deforestation inspired this paper, which completes existing literature by providing empirical justification to hypothetical initiatives on the impact of population growth on forest sustainability in Africa. Using three...
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Insurance Demand against Forest Fire Risk : Empirical Analysis on French Private Forest Owners
Marielle, Brunette - 2011
This paper deals with private forest owners' insurance demand against forest fire risk. Econometric analysis is realized on a sample of forest owners from Aquitaine. It allows identifying determinants of participation to insurance from determinants explaining the difference of willingness-to-pay...
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