Forestry, Economics and the Environment
Edited by W L Adamowicz, University of Alberta and Forestry Canada; M K Luckert; W E Phillips; W White, University of Alberta and Forestry Canada; P C Boxall
Pub Date: November 1995
Hardback
288 pages
Readership
Advanced students, research workers, practitioners and advisers in forestry and environmental economics.
Main Description
Global interest in forest conservation, biodiversity preservation, and non-timber values has risen while pressures on the forest as a source of income and employment have also increased. These demands are often conflicting, making forest planning, allocation and policy formation very complex. This volume explores theoretical and applied issues surrounding forest resource allocation.
The book is divided into three main subject areas: tropical forests - environment, economics and trade; non-timber valuation - theory and application; and ecosystem management. The first of these focuses on tropical forests, reflecting the fact that global environmental concerns surrounding these regions are often in conflict with local economic objectives. The second section examines non-timber values, which are important in planning and policy decisions, but are also very controversial. The third group of chapters consider ecosystem management, a concept that promotes the use of forest harvesting practices that mimic natural disturbance patterns. Overall, the book will be of interest to readers in forestry and environmental economics.
Main Contents
• Pluralism and Pragmatism in the Pursuit of Sustainable Development, E N Castle
• Global Environmental Value and the Tropical Forests: Demonstration and Capture, D Pearce
• Local Timber Production and Global Trade: The Environmental Implications of Forestry Trade, R A Sedjo
• Can Tropical Forests be Saved by Harvesting Non-Timber Products? A Case Study for Ecuador, D Southgate, M Coles-Ritchie and P Salazar-Canelos
• Conflicts between trade and sustainable forestry policies in the Philippines, H W Wisdom
• Measuring general public preservation values for forest resources: evidence from contingentn valuation surveys, J B Loomis
• Citizens, consumers and contingent valuation: clarification and the expression of citizen values and issue-opinions, R K Blamey
• Moral responsibility effects in valuation of WTA for public and private goods by the method of paired comparison, G L Peterson, T C Brown, D W McCollum, P A Bell, A A Birjulin and A Clarke
• Integrating cognitive psychology into the contingent valuation method to explore the trade-offs between non-market costs and benefits of alternative afforestation programs in Ireland, W G Hutchinson and S M Chilton
• Valuing tropical rainforest protection using the contingent valuation method, R A Kramer, E Mercer and N Sharme
• The safe minimum standard appraoch: an alternative to measuring non-use values for environmental assets? R P Berrens
• An economic-ecological model for ecosystem management, R Mendelsohn
• Application of a bioeconomic strategic planning model to an industrial forest in Saskatchewan, B Stewart and M Martel
• Incentives for managing landscapes to meet non-timber goals: lessons from the Washington landscape management project, B Lippke
• Perspectives on educating forestry professionals in an environmentally conscious age, J C Nautiyal
