Rwanda's Nyungwe National Park is a biodiversity hotspot with the most endemic species in the ecoregion as well as the highest number of threatened species internationally. In addition to great biological diversity, Nyungwe National Park supplies significant ecosystem services to the Rwandan...

With the growing recognition of the role of environmental services rendered by private lands, landowner involvement has become a critical component of landscape-level strategies to conserve biodiversity. In this paper, we examine the willingness of private forest owners to participate in a...

pt. 1. Fundamental topics in forest resource economics -- pt. 2. Economics of forest ecosystems -- pt. 3. Economics of forests, climate change and bioenergy -- pt. 4. Economics of risk, uncertainty and natural disturbances -- pt. 5. Economics of forest property rights and certification -- pt. 6....

This article presents an applied framework for selective precision in the insertion of superior data into hybrid regional models where regional purchasing coefficients are absent or unattainable. Due to the lack of regional-level data, crude top-down methods are the most frequently applied...