Recent research in natural sciences shows that boreal forests' dynamics are much more complex than what many models traditionally used in forestry economics reflect. This essay analyses some challenges of accounting for such complexity. When forest owners continuously harvest several species,...

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 significantly increase the visitors' willingness to pay. A...

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-specific estimates of mean and median willingness to pay. We report...

Wälder stellen nicht nur einen umfangreichen Lebensraum zahlreicher Spezies dar, sondern auch eine wichtige Senke für CO2, die weltweit jedoch stark durch Abholzung bedroht ist. Dieser Beitrag zeigt die jährliche Veränderungsrate der Waldflächen im Zeitraum 2000–2005. Es ist erkennbar,...

Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick zur Entwicklung und Zukunft der weltweiten Wälder und stellt die Programme zur Wiederaufforstung vor, die dem Klimawandel und dem Artenschwund entgegenwirken sollen.

This paper provides a theoretical framework to study the behavioral and welfare effects of forest conservation, which leads to a binding harvesting constraint for landowners. The economy is modeled as a three-stage game by the interaction of the government’s conservation policy, with...

By using ad hoc value transfer protocols, this paper offers a methodological contribution and provides accurate per hectare estimates of the economic value of some selected ecosystem services for all forest biomes in the world, identified following the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment taxonomy...

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...