Forest Policy and Economics

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Volume 11, issue 4, 2009

Role of foresters' perspectives in orienting agroforestry programmes pp. 213-220

Kamal Kishor Sood and C. Paul Mitchell

Local pricing system of forest products and its relations to equitable benefit sharing and livelihood improvement in the lowland community forestry program in Nepal pp. 221-229

Maheshwar Dhakal and Misa Masuda

Owner-specific factors associated with conversion activity in secondary pine plantations pp. 230-236

Ann Van Herzele and Peter Van Gossum

Managing invasive plants on public conservation forestlands: Application of a bio-economic model pp. 237-243

Donna J. Lee, Damian Adams and C.S. Kim

A computable general equilibrium analysis of forest concessions in Brazil pp. 244-252

Onil Banerjee and Janaki Alavalapati

Evaluating natural resource amenities in a human life expectancy production function pp. 253-259

Neelam C. Poudyal, Donald G. Hodges, J.M. Bowker and H.K. Cordell

An empirical analysis of bill co-sponsorship in the U.S. Senate: The Tree Act of 2007 pp. 260-265

Shaun Tanger and David Laband

An analysis of Greek wood and wood product imports: Evidence from the linear quadratic aids pp. 266-270

Garyfallos Arabatzis and Stathis Klonaris

What accounts for the divergence between ranchers' WTA and WTP for public forage? pp. 271-279

Lili Sun, Gerrit van Kooten and Graham Voss

A stochastic frontier analysis of technical progress, efficiency change and productivity growth in the Pacific Northwest sawmill industry pp. 280-287

Ted L. Helvoigt and Darius M. Adams

Motivating factors and facilitating conditions explaining women's participation in co-management of Sri Lankan forests pp. 288-293

Roshni K. Nuggehalli and Linda Stalker Prokopy

Demand for non-timber forest products: Surveys of urban consumers and sellers in Switzerland pp. 294-300

Petra Kilchling, Ralf Hansmann and Klaus Seeland

The Economics of Forest Disturbances: Wildfires, Storms, and Invasive Species, Thomas P. Holmes, Jeffrey P. Prestemon, and Karen L. Abt (Eds.), 2008, Springer Science + Business Media B.V., xiii + 415 pp., ISBN 978-1-4020-4369-7, e-ISBN 978-1-4020-4370-3, Volume 79 in the Springer Forestry Sciences Series pp. 301-302

Jonathan Yoder

Volume 11, issue 3, 2009

Willingness to pay function for two fuel treatments to reduce wildfire acreage burned: A scope test and comparison of White and Hispanic households pp. 155-160

John Loomis, Le Trong Hung and Armando González-Cabán

Technical innovation in Spain's wood-based industry: The role of environmental and quality strategies pp. 161-168

Óscar Alfranca, Luis Diaz-Balteiro and A. Casimiro Herruzo

How to improve the marketing of timber in France? pp. 169-173

B. Elyakime and A. Cabanettes

Valuation of tropical forest services and mechanisms to finance their conservation and sustainable use: A case study of Tapantí National Park, Costa Rica pp. 174-183

Florence Bernard, Rudolf S. de Groot and José Joaquín Campos

Spatial econometric analysis of location drivers in a renewable resource-based industry: The U.S. South Lumber Industry pp. 184-193

Francisco Aguilar

Valuing diversity and spatial pattern of open space plots in urban neighborhoods pp. 194-201

Neelam C. Poudyal, Donald G. Hodges, Bruce Tonn and Seong-Hoon Cho

A short history of Dutch forest policy: The 'de-institutionalisation' of a policy arrangement pp. 202-208

Sietske Veenman, Duncan Liefferink and Bas Arts

Volume 11, issue 2, 2009

Effects of tax incentives on long-run capital formation and total factor productivity growth in the Canadian sawmilling industry pp. 85-94

Asghedom Ghebremichael and Karen Potter-Witter

Forest property rights in the frame of public policies and societal change pp. 95-101

Doru Leonard Irimie and Hans Friedrich Essmann

Factors affecting forest cooperative's participation in forestry in Turkey pp. 102-108

Erdogan Atmis, H. Batuhan Günsen, Banu Bayramoglu Lise and Wietze Lise

Partnerships for sustainable development as discursive practice: Shifts in discourses of environment and democracy pp. 109-122

Aysem Mert

The economic contribution of forest resource use to rural livelihoods in Tigray, Northern Ethiopia pp. 123-131

Bedru Babulo, Bart Muys, Fredu Nega, Eric Tollens, Jan Nyssen, Jozef Deckers and Erik Mathijs

Determinants of private forest management decisions: A study on West Virginia NIPF landowners pp. 132-139

Sudiksha Joshi and Kathryn G. Arano

Effects of presenting forest simulation results on the forest values and attitudes of forestry professionals and other forest users in Central Labrador pp. 140-147

Kati Berninger, Daniel Kneeshaw and Christian Messier

The Magna Charta of Environmental Legislation: A historical look at 30Â years of NEPA-Forest Service Litigation pp. 148-154

Shorna R. Broussard and Bianca D. Whitaker

Assessing the role of federal community assistance programs to develop biomass utilization capacity in the western United States pp. 155-162

Dennis R. Becker, Mark Nechodom, Adam Barnett, Tad Mason, Eini C. Lowell, John Shelly and Dean Graham

Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe, State of Europe's forests 2007, The MCPFE Report on Sustainable Forest Management in Europe, Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe, Warsaw, Poland (2007) 247 pp pp. 163-164

John L. Innes

Volume 11, issue 1, 2009

Mesta: An internet-based decision-support application for participatory strategic-level natural resources planning pp. 1-9

Veikko Hiltunen, Mikko Kurttila, Pekka Leskinen, Karri Pasanen and Jouni Pykäläinen

Making friends in Zurich's urban forests and parks: The role of public green space for social inclusion of youths from different cultures pp. 10-17

Klaus Seeland, Sabine Dübendorfer and Ralf Hansmann

The role of non-timber forest products during agroecosystem shift in Xishuangbanna, southwestern China pp. 18-25

Yongneng Fu, Jin Chen, Huijun Guo, Aiguo Chen, Jingyun Cui and Huabin Hu

Forest policy analysis praxis: Modelling the problem of forest loss in Cameroon pp. 26-33

Richard S. Mbatu

Valuation of non-timber forest products value chains pp. 34-41

Anders Jensen

Urbanization's impact on sustained yield management as perceived by forestry professionals in central New York pp. 42-49

Brandon W. Vickery, René H. Germain and Eddie Bevilacqua

Assessing the value of forestry to the Irish economy -- An input-output approach pp. 50-55

Áine Ní Dhubháin, Marie-Christine Fléchard, Richard Moloney and Deirdre O'Connor

Asymmetry in price transmission between the producer and the consumer prices in the wood sector and the role of imports: The case of Greece pp. 56-64

Theodoros Koutroumanidis, Eleni Zafeiriou and Garyfallos Arabatzis

Process-based analysis of added value in forest product industries pp. 65-75

Roger Sathre and Leif Gustavsson

Scenarios on Forest Management in Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Ukraine, Schellaas, M.-J., Buksha, I., Cerny, M., Cienciala, E., Csoka, P., Galinski, W., Karjalainen, T., Kolozs, L., Nabuurs, G.-J., Pasternak, V., Pussinen, A., Sódor, M., Wawrzoniak, J., 2004, European Forest Institute -- Research Report 17, Brill Leiden, Boston, 107 pp., ISBN-10: 9004137270; ISBN-13: 978-9004137271 pp. 76-77

Dijana Vuletic

Julian Evans and John W Turnbull, Plantation Forestry in the Tropics, The Role, Silviculture, and Use of Planted Forests for Industrial, Social, Environmental, and Agroforestry Purposes, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2006) 467 pp., ISBN-10: 0198509472; ISBN-13: 978-0198509479 pp. 77-77

Matthias Bösch

Adrian C Newton, Forest Ecology and Conservation: A Handbook of Techniques, Oxford University Press, Oxford (2007) 454 pp., ISBN-10: 0198567456, ISBN-13: 978-0198567455 pp. 77-78

Rodolphe Schlaepfer

Irene Guijt, Editor, Negotiated Learning: Collaborating Monitoring in Forest Resource Management, Resources for the Future Press, Washington, DC, USA (2007) xi + 163 pp., ISBN 978-1-933115-38-2 pp. 78-79

Purabi Bose

Volume 10, issue 7-8, 2008

Legal frameworks for and the practice of participatory natural resources management in South Africa pp. 435-443

Tania Holmes-Watts and Scotney Watts

The impact of forest service litigation success on administrative appeals of proposed fuels reduction actions pp. 444-449

David Laband, Anwar Hussain and Armando González-Cabán

Determinants of export marketing strategies of forest products companies in the context of transition -- The case of Slovakia pp. 450-459

Yvonne Brodrechtova

Empirical specification of cost reductions associated with accumulated knowledge in the Swedish kraft paper industry pp. 460-466

Robert Lundmark

Valuing forest recreation on the national level in a transition economy: The case of Poland pp. 467-472

Anna Bartczak, Henrik Lindhjem, Stale Navrud, Marianne Zandersen and Tomasz Zylicz

Entrepreneurial attitude, innovation and performance among Norwegian nature-based tourism enterprises pp. 473-479

Erlend Nybakk and Eric Hansen

Long-term effects of eliminating illegal logging on the world forest industries, trade, and inventory pp. 480-490

Ruhong Li, J. Buongiorno, J.A. Turner, S. Zhu and J. Prestemon

Public compensation for windstorm damage reduces incentives for risk management investments pp. 491-499

Marielle Brunette and Stéphane Couture

Corporate responsibility reporting by large pulp and paper companies pp. 500-506

Mirja Mikkilä and Anne Toppinen

What does it take to get family forest owners to enroll in a forest stewardship-type program? pp. 507-514

Michael A. Kilgore, Stephanie A. Snyder, Joseph Schertz and Steven Taff

Implementation failure of the forest expansion policy in Flanders (Northern Belgium) and the policy learning potential pp. 515-522

Peter Van Gossum, Liselot Ledene, Bas Arts, Rik De Vreese and Kris Verheyen

Darius Adams and Richard W. Haynes, Editors, Resource and Market Projections for Forest Policy Development: Twenty-five years of experience with the US RPA Timber Assessment, Springer, Dordrecht (2007) 589 pp. ISBN-10: 1402063083 ISBN-13: 978-1402063084 pp. 523-523

Gert-Jan Nabuurs

Volume 10, issue 6, 2008

Wildfire mitigation pp. 341-343

Larry Teeter

The economics of alternative fuel reduction treatments in western United States dry forests: Financial and policy implications from the National Fire and Fire Surrogate Study pp. 344-354

Bruce R. Hartsough, Scott Abrams, R. James Barbour, Erik S. Drews, James D. McIver, Jason J. Moghaddas, Dylan W. Schwilk and Scott L. Stephens

Assessing the cost of fuel reduction treatments: A critical review pp. 355-362

Bob Rummer

Market impacts of hypothetical fuel treatment thinning programs on federal lands in the western United States pp. 363-372

Peter J. Ince, Henry Spelter, Kenneth E. Skog, Andrew Kramp and Dennis P. Dykstra

Timber product output implications of a program of mechanical fuel treatments applied on public timberland in the Western United States pp. 373-385

R. James Barbour, Xiaoping Zhou and Jeffrey P. Prestemon

Market impacts of a multiyear mechanical fuel treatment program in the U.S pp. 386-399

Jeffrey P. Prestemon, Karen L. Abt and Robert J. Huggett

Potential biomass and logs from fire-hazard-reduction treatments in Southwest Oregon and Northern California pp. 400-407

R. James Barbour, Jeremy S. Fried, Peter J. Daugherty, Glenn Christensen and Roger Fight

Efficacy of mechanical fuel treatments for reducing wildfire hazard pp. 408-414

Robert J. Huggett , Karen L. Abt and Wayne Shepperd

Investigating intended evacuation from wildfires in the wildland-urban interface: Application of a bivariate probit model pp. 415-423

Pallab Mozumder, Nejem Raheem, John Talberth and Robert Berrens

Ewald Rametsteiner, Gerhard Weiss and Klaus Kubeczko, Innovation and entrepreneurship in forestry in Central Europe, Koninklijke Brill NV Leiden, The Netherlands/European Forest Institute (2005) 179 pp pp. 424-425

Ivan Paligorov

K.M. Reynolds, A.J. Thomson, M. Köhl, M.A. Shannon, D. Ray and K. Rennolls, Editors, Sustainable Forestry: From Monitoring and Modelling to Knowledge Management and Policy Science, CAB International, Oxfordshire, UK (2007) 527 p pp. 426-427

Jay O'Laughlin

Roger Sands, Forestry in a Global Context, CABI Publishing, Wallingford UK (2005) ISBN 978-0851990897 262 pp pp. 428-429

Maheshwar Dhakal

Volume 10, issue 5, 2008

Impacts of payments for environmental services on local development in northern Costa Rica: A fuzzy multi-criteria analysis pp. 275-285

Bruno Locatelli, Varinia Rojas and Zenia Salinas

Event analysis of the impact of mergers and acquisitions on the financial performance of the U.S. forest products industry pp. 286-294

Bin Mei and Changyou Sun

Estimating the effects of adjacency and green-up constraints on landowners of different sizes and spatial arrangements located in the southeastern U.S pp. 295-302

Jianping Zhu and Pete Bettinger

Property rights, land conflicts and deforestation in the Eastern Amazon pp. 303-315

Jose Antonio Puppim de Oliveira

Framing environmental policy by the local press: Case study from the Dadia Forest Reserve, Greece pp. 316-325

Tasos Hovardas and Konstantinos J. Korfiatis

A marginal cost analysis of trade-offs in old-growth preservation in Ontario pp. 326-335

Rajendra Prasad Khajuria, Susanna Laaksonen-Craig and Shashi Kant

C.C. Konijnendijk, K. Nilsson, T.B. Randrup and J.S. Schipperijn, Editors, Urban Forests and Trees, Springer, Berlin (2005) xx + 520 pp pp. 336-336

Jim Lynch

Volume 10, issue 4, 2008

Estimating rates of substitution for protecting values at risk for initial attack planning and budgeting pp. 205-219

Douglas B. Rideout, Pamela S. Ziesler, Robert Kling, John Loomis and Stephen J. Botti

The future orientation of foresters: An exploratory research among Dutch foresters into the prerequisite for strategic planning in forestry pp. 220-229

Marjanke A. Hoogstra and Heiner Schanz

Voluntary agreements in protecting privately owned forests in Finland -- To buy or to lease pp. 230-239

Artti Juutinen, Erkki Mantymaa, Mikko Monkkonen and Rauli Svento

What factors influence obtaining forest certification in the U.S. Pacific Northwest pp. 240-247

Anna Tikina, Robert Kozak and Bruce Larson

Quantifying the direct social and governmental costs of illegal logging in the Bolivian, Brazilian, and Peruvian Amazon pp. 248-256

Victor Hugo Gutierrez-Velez and Kenneth MacDicken

Responding to the Kyoto Protocol through forestry: A comparison of opportunities for several countries in Europe pp. 257-269

Maria Nijnik and Livia Bizikova

N.K. Ninan, S. Jyothis, P. Babu and V. Ramakrishnappa, Editors, The Economics of Biodiversity Conservation: Valuation in Tropical Forest Ecosystems, Earthscan (2007-09-15) 1-84407-364-5, 978-1-84407-364-1 pp. 270-271

Graham Dawson

J.L. Innes, G.M. Hickey and H.F. Hoen, Editors, Forestry and Environmental Change: Socioeconomic and Political Dimensions, CABI Publishing, Wallingford (2005) vii+ 265 pp pp. 271-272

Jim Lynch

Volume 10, issue 3, 2008

Examining private forest policy preferences pp. 89-97

Jessica J. Janota and Shorna R. Broussard

A concept for the calculation of financial losses when changing the forest management strategy pp. 98-107

Bernhard Mohring and Ursula Ruping

Exchange rates and the competitiveness of the United States timber sector in a global economy pp. 108-116

Adam Daigneault, Brent Sohngen and Roger Sedjo

Voting methods in strategic forest planning -- Experiences from Metsahallitus pp. 117-127

Veikko Hiltunen, Jyrki Kangas and Jouni Pykalainen

Evaluation of renewable energy policies in an integrated economic-energy-environment model pp. 128-139

d'Artis Kancs and Norbert Wohlgemuth

Real versus perceived conflicts between restoration of ponderosa pine forests and conservation of the Mexican spotted owl pp. 140-150

John W. Prather, Reed F. Noss and Thomas D. Sisk

Applying portfolio optimisation to the harvesting decisions of non-industrial private forest owners pp. 151-160

Kari Hyytiainen and Markku Penttinen

Incorporating social factors to improve the Japanese forest zoning process pp. 161-173

Ken Sugimura and Theodore E. Howard

Modeling the effects of introducing timber sales into volume-based tenure agreements pp. 174-182

Kevin Crowe

Communication between forest scientists and forest policy-makers in Europe -- A survey on both sides of the science/policy interface pp. 183-194

Gerben Janse

David Humphreys, Editor, Logjam: Deforestation and the Crisis of Global Governance, Earthscan, London (2006) 302 pp pp. 195-197

John Innes

G. Mery, R. Alfaro, M. Kanninen and M. Lobovikov, Editors, Forests in the global balance--Changing paradigms,, IUFRO World Series vol. 17, Helsinki (2005) 318 pp pp. 195-194

Goran Stahl

Oliver Springate-Baginski and Piers Blaikie, Editors, Forests, People and Power: The Political Ecology of Reform in South Asia, Earthscan, London (2007) 394 pp pp. 197-198

Poshendra Satyal Pravat

Jerry Vanclay, Ravi Prabhu and Fergus Sinclair, Realizing community futures: A practical guide to harnessing natural resources, Earthscan, London (2006) 162 pages pp. 198-200

Poshendra Satyal Pravat

Volume 10, issue 1-2, 2007

Is China in a later stage of a U-shaped forest resource curve? A re-examination of empirical evidence pp. 1-6

Sen Wang, Can Liu and Bill Wilson

The profitability of forest protection versus logging and the role of payments for environmental services (PES) in the Reserva Forestal Golfo Dulce, Costa Rica pp. 7-13

Enrique Ibarra Gene

Policy analysis of a government-sanctioned management plan for a community-owned forest in Romania pp. 14-24

Emil Sandulescu, John E. Wagner, Sharon Pailler, Donald W. Floyd and Craig J. Davis

Stakeholders' perceptions of consultations as tools for co-management -- A case study of the forestry and reindeer herding sectors in northern Sweden pp. 25-35

Camilla Sandstrom and Camilla Widmark

Economic incentives for abandoning or expanding gum arabic production in Sudan pp. 36-47

Afaf H. Rahim, Ekko van Ierland and Justus Wesseler

An integrated spatial assessment of the investment potential of three species in southern Ontario, Canada inclusive of carbon benefits pp. 48-59

Denys Yemshanov, Daniel McKenney, Saul Fraleigh and Steve D'Eon

Forest policy in aroused society: Ukrainian post-Orange Revolution challenges pp. 60-69

Ihor P. Soloviy and Frederick W. Cubbage

Structure of causation and its influence on cooperation: A comparative study of forest management in Ontario, Canada pp. 70-81

Mark Robson and Shashi Kant

James S. Clark and Alan E. Gelfand, Editors, Hierarchical Modelling for the Environmental Sciences-- Statistical Methods and Applications, Oxford University Press Inc., New York(2006), (2006) 205 pages, ISBN-(Hbk): 0-19-856966-1 pp. 82-83

Sebastian Hein

M. Merlo and L. Croitoru, Editors, Valuing Mediterranean Forests: Towards Total Economic Value, CABI International, Wallingford UK/Cambridge MA (2005) 406 pp pp. 83-84

Ludek Sisak