Forest Economics on the Edge
Author: David H. Newman
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13:
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World on the Edge
Author: Lester Brown
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-06-25
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 113654075X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now. We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise? Can we raise water productivity fast enough to halt the depletion of aquifers and avoid water-driven food shortages? Can we cope with peak water and peak oil at the same time? These are some of the issues Lester R. Brown skilfully distils in World on the Edge. Bringing decades of research and analysis into play, he provides the responses needed to reclaim our future.
Finding the Ecological-economic Edge
Author: Homer T. McCrary
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 20
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIntroduction to Forestry Economics
Author: Peter H. Pearse
Publisher: UBC Press
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 9780774803366
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a good introduction to forestry economics in BC, including markets, supply, demand, pricing, non-market values, land allocation, forest rotations, regulations, property rights and taxes.
Forests on the Edge
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Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 16
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe private working land base of America's forests is being converted to developed uses, with implications for the condition and management of affected private forests and the watersheds in which they occur. The Forests on the Edge project seeks to improve understanding of the processes and thresholds associated with increases in housing density in private forests and likely effects on the contributions of those forests to timber, wildlife, and water resources. This report, the first in a series, displays and describes housing density projections on private forests, by watershed, across the conterminous United States. An interdisciplinary team used geographic information system (GIS) techniques to identify fourth-level watersheds containing private forests that are projected to experience increased housing density by 2030. Results indicate that some 44.2 million acres (over 11 percent) of private forests--particularly in the East, where most private forests occur--are likely to see dramatic increases in housing development in the next three decades, with consequent impacts on ecological, economic, and social services. Although conversion of forest land to other uses over time is inevitable, local jurisdictions and states can target efforts to prevent or reduce conversion of the most valuable forest lands to keep private working forests resilient and productive.
Forest Prairie Edge
Author: Merle Massie
Publisher: Univ. of Manitoba Press
Published: 2014-04-26
Total Pages: 547
ISBN-13: 0887554547
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSaskatchewan is the anchor and epitome of the ‘prairie’ provinces, even though half of the province is covered by boreal forest. The Canadian penchant for dividing this vast country into easily-understood ‘regions’ has reduced the Saskatchewan identity to its southern prairie denominator and has distorted cultural and historical interpretations to favor the prairie south. Forest Prairie Edge is a deep-time investigation of the edge land, or ecotone, between the open prairies and boreal forest region of Saskatchewan. Ecotones are transitions from one landscape to another, where social, economic, and cultural practices of different landscapes are blended. Using place history and edge theory, Massie considers the role and importance of the edge ecotone in building a diverse social and economic past that contradicts traditional “prairie” narratives around settlement, economic development, and culture. She offers a refreshing new perspective that overturns long-held assumptions of the prairies and the Canadian west.
Forestry Economics
Author: John E. Wagner
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2023-12-22
Total Pages: 537
ISBN-13: 1317392000
DOWNLOAD EBOOK- Each chapter introduces one or more key concepts in managerial economics and then illustrates the importance of those ideas by showing how they can be applied when making business decisions. - The inclusion of numerous case studies throughout the book enables students to see how forestry and natural resource management works in practice. - A new chapter on developing and writing business plans highlights a managerial tool and allows students to put the ideas developed throughout the book into practice.
Economics of Forestry
Author: Roger A. Sedjo
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-02-06
Total Pages: 659
ISBN-13: 1351725912
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis title was first published in 2003. The 'Economics of Forestry' is a specialized subset of resource economics addressing a specific natural resource - the forest - which is usually a relatively long time period. Hence, forest economics has characteristics similar to nonrenewable resources but also has those of a renewable resource, in some cases approaching those of agriculture. This volume comprises some of the most significant journal essays in forest economics and forest policy. The International Library of Environmental Economics and Policy explores the influence of economics on the development of environmental and natural resource policy. In a series of twenty five volumes, the most significant journal essays in key areas of contemporary environmental and resource policy are collected. Scholars who are recognized for their expertise and contribution to the literature in the various research areas serve as volume editors and write essays that provides the context for the collection. Volumes in the series reflect three broad strands of economic research including 1) Natural and Environmental Resources, 2) Policy Instruments and Institutions and 3) Methodology. The editors, in their introduction to each volume, provide a state-of-the-art overview of the topic and explain the influence and relevance of the collected papers on the development of policy. This reference series provides access to the economic literature that has shaped contemporary perspectives on land use analysis and policy.
Forest Economics and Policy Analysis
Author: William F. Hyde
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis paper identifies the essential features of the forestry economics literature emphasizing what is different about forestry and what are forestry's important features for project and program analysis. The important conclusion, is that economic tools are both available and appropriate for the analysis of a wide range of forest policy problems. The report is divided into two parts. The characteristics that received special attention in the first part are the embodiment of both productive capital and final output in any standing forest inventory, and the long time periods that often distinguish forest production. A third distinguishing characteristics is the joint production nature of many forest resource services. The second part of the paper visits seven special topics that are important to forestry and economic development: (1) timber production; (2) smallholder forest management; (3) forestry research, education, and extension; (4) tenure; (5) policy spillovers from other sectors of the economy that can substantially alter forests and forestland management; (6) non-timber multiple use values; and (7) deforestation, timber famine or its counter, sustainable forest management.
Handbook of Forest Resource Economics
Author: Shashi Kant
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-04-03
Total Pages: 576
ISBN-13: 1136253297
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is increasingly recognized that the economic value of forests is not merely the production of timber. Forests provide other key ecosystem services, such as being sinks for greenhouse gases, hotspots of biodiversity, tourism and recreation. They are also vitally important in preventing soil erosion and controlling water supplies, as well as providing non-timber forest products and supporting the livelihoods of many local people. This handbook provides a detailed, comprehensive and broad coverage of forest economics, including traditional forest economics of timber production, economics of environmental role of forests, and recent developments in forest economics. The chapters are grouped into six parts: fundamental topics in forest resource economics; economics of forest ecosystems; economics of forests, climate change, and bioenergy; economics of risk, uncertainty, and natural disturbances; economics of forest property rights and certification; and emerging issues and developments. Written by leading environmental, forest, and natural resource economists, the book represents a definitive reference volume for students of economics, environment, forestry and natural resource economics and management.
