This paper provides an empirical exploration of the dependence of villagers on non-timber forest products in the Morogoro region in Tanzania, the decision rules that villagers use concerning where and how much they collect, how their collection changes with degradation, and the implications of...

Rigorous, objective evaluation of forest conservation policies in developing countries is needed to ensure that the limited financial, human, and political resources devoted to these policies are put to good use. Yet such evaluations remain uncommon. Recent advances in conservation best...

El presente artículo tuvo como objetivo comparar metodologías de análisis desde los sistemas complejos que involucraran elementos sociales y naturales en interacción entre sí y a diferentes escalas, para ser aplicadas en el estudio de proyectos forestales de captura de carbono. Este tipo de...

Voluntary carbon markets, such as the Chicago Climate Exchange (CCX), were worth $90 million in 2006. This paper finds that community forestry interventions of three organizations in India are eligible to sell carbon sequestration credits on CCX. Their combined annual sequestration potential is...

Using multiple choice tasks per respondent in discrete choice experiment studies increase the amount of available information. However, treating repeated choice data in the same way as cross-sectional data may lead to biased estimates. In particular, respondents’ learning and fatigue may lead...

Dead wood is recognized as being one of the most important factors for forest biodiversity for many organism groups. One of the Swedish official environmental objectives is therefore to increase dead wood volume. However, reducing climate impact through increased use of forest biofuels is likely...

The nature of public good of the forest, and also the failures and short-sightedness of the market, these are the main motivation that justify forestry institutions. Using Musgrave distinction to frame the forests as a merit good and, potential, demerit good, Author provides a different...

Regression analysis is one statistical data analysis techniques in the most widely used to determine the relationship between the predictor variable (X) with the response variable (Y). In regression analysis, the regression curve can be approximated by nonparametric regression model....

Dead wood is recognized as being one of the most important factors for forest biodiversity for many organism groups. One of the Swedish official environmental objectives is therefore to increase dead wood volume. However, reducing climate impact through increased use of forest biofuels is likely...

This study examines the spatial nature of optimal bioinvasion control. We develop a spatially explicit two-dimensional model of species spread that allows for differential control across space and time, and we solve for optimal spatial-dynamic control strategies. We find that the optimal...