preferences of key stakeholders. In this study, we examine and compare the valuation of forest attributes across the general … public, private non-industrial forest owners and forest officials in Sweden by conducting a choice experiment. Our results … than those of forest owners, implying that there is room for compensation. Interestingly, our results suggest that both …

Presentation by Richard Meade to the AARES 53rd Annual Conference held 10-13 February 2009 in Cairns Australia.Forest … and Forest Land Valuation - How to Value Forests and Forest Land to Include Carbon Costs and Benefits. …

Natura 2000 is a European Union’s network of protected areas. In France, all forest owners whose forest is located in … a Natura 2000 site could enroll in Natura 2000 program. After enrollment, the forest owner will benefit from a financial … several objectives: first, finding out whether the conservation program is attractive for the private forest owners who want …

Small farmers have been blamed for forest degradation in O’Valley, Gudalur. The state’s response to this perceived … forest degradation in the post-colonial period has been to increasingly environmentalise forest policy and law through … to reclaim undeveloped forest land. By doing so, the article highlights the contested meanings often ascribed to the …

Conflict over the use and management of America’s forest lands and resources intensified during the 1970s, with … debates over the use of the undeveloped lands inventoried by the Forest Service, the divi- sion of lands in Alaska, the … establishment and expansion of certain national parks acquired from private landowners, and the regulation of forest practices on …

. In this article, we model incentive contracts in forest areas in the presence of adverse selection and moral hazard when … for a high ecological level of the forest. When conservation measures are correlated with forest management, we show that …