Aiming to alleviate rural poverty, stimulate investment in forests, and improve forest conservation, the Chinese … government set forth a policy leading to small private holdings of previously village administered forest lands. Using data … forestation of 7.9% of the forest land in the year of the reform …

dynamics of forest resources and provide an impact assessment of forest policies on China's forestry development over the last …Using the latest forest inventory, this paper provides a comprehensive analysis of China's forest sector by focusing on … new forest trends, forest policy changes and challenges to achieve a sustainable forest management. We analyze the …

First-best optimal forest sector carbon policy is examined. Using a comprehensive forest sector model with a detailed … forest bioenergy. However, under the biomass stock change carbon accounting convention followed by UNFCCC and IPCC, the … forest owners pay for the roundwood emissions and, to avoid double counting, the use of roundwood is treated as emission free …

recognizing forest carbon in climate policy. Specifically, we investigate the impact of an asymmetric carbon policy that … of not recognizing positive emissions from a reduction in the stock of forest biomass, or of not recognizing negative … emissions from the growth of forest biomass. We show that asymmetric carbon policies lead to lower levels of welfare, as well as …

IAMs with the complex dynamic structure of forests and forest supply is a daunting intertemporal task. This study examines … the market for woody biomass by combining the integrated assessment model WITCH with the global dynamic forestry model GTM … biomass program. Forest area will expand by 70-95% leading to increased storage of 685-1,279 GtCO2 in forest by 2100. Overall …

. -- sustainable forest management ; foreign aid ; official development assistance ; climate change finance ; REDD+ ; forestry sector …Forest loss and degradation remains a leading environmental problem. The long history of sustainable forest management … from the climate change policy arena are opening new ways for a broader mainstreaming of forest management, specially …

; governance; accessing expertise and resourcing; communication; the logistics of native forestry establishment; and challenges … working relationships; providing support to develop robust business cases and planting plans for native forestry; tailoring … traditionally engaged with native forestry …

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 … the expected loss of forestry income, self-insurance, uncertainty characterizing the probability of occurrence of natural …

While a comprehensive economic valuation of all use and non-use values of the forest is impossible, indigenous … societies seem to have a clear, albeit inchoate idea of the value of the forest on which they depend for their material and …, and then a valuable resource for economic development, and abrogated the customary rights of indigenous forest villagers …