The Economics of Forestry Modern Theory and Practice

The economics of forestry has always fascinated me as one of the most brain-taxing cases in economics. As an investment forestry is different from many other projects as it has unusually long gestation periods. For example, in the United Kingdom it takes over 40 years to grow coniferous and over 100...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Kula, Erhun (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1988, 1988
Edition:1st ed. 1988
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Forestry policy: an historic overview
  • 2 Forestry in some selected Western countries and the European Economic Community
  • 3 A cost-benefit analysis of public sector forestry in the United Kingdom by using ordinary discounting
  • 4 Modified discounting and its application to forestry
  • 5 Private sector forestry
  • 6 The optimum rotation problem in forestry
  • I Discounted cash flows/discount factors
  • II Discount factors for the UK on the basis of MDM
  • III Derivation of social interest rates for the UK, the US and Canada
  • IV Recent developments in forestry policy in the United Kingdom
  • Author index