EFFICIENT MANAGEMENT OF BIOLOGICALLY DIVERSE TROPICAL FORESTS

Douglas Southgate

No 270713, 1989 Annual Meeting, July 30-August 2, Baton Rouge, Louisiana from American Agricultural Economics Association (New Name 2008: Agricultural and Applied Economics Association)

Abstract: Developed in this paper is an optimal control model of the benefits and costs of using tropical forests as a natural repository of species and folk knowledge. It serves as a framework for assessing how market and tenurial incentives influence both deforestation and the collection of ethnobiological information.

Keywords: Agricultural and Food Policy; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 15
Date: 1989-07-30
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.270713

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