The Costs and Benefits of Intensive Forest Management

Brännlund Runar, Carlén Ola, Lundgren Tommy and Marklund Per-Olov
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Brännlund Runar: Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics, Umeå University
Carlén Ola: Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Lundgren Tommy: Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics, Umeå University
Marklund Per-Olov: Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics, Umeå University

Journal of Benefit-Cost Analysis, 2012, vol. 3, issue 4, 25

Abstract: This paper presents an approach for studying the socio-economic benefits and costs (CBA) of the introduction of intensified management measures in forestry. Besides from valuation of changes in timber production, assessments of different types of externalities are included in the assessment. The model is exemplified with the use of data from a Swedish governmental study undertaken in 2009 which present impacts on the Swedish forest sector if intensified management measures are applied on environmentally low-valued land and abandoned agricultural lands. The CBA shows that intensified management measures typically are private financially profitable. If these measures also become profitable from the society’s point of view depend on the size of the external effects including carbon balance.

Keywords: cost-benefit analysis; external effect; timber production; carbon sequestration; fuel substitution (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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