Farm production and natural forest extraction remain principal livelihood strategies of local people in many rural areas of the developing world. In this paper, we apply stochastic frontier analysis to evaluate farm production efficiency and simultaneous equations modelling to estimate the...

The matrices of spanning rooted forests are studied as a tool for analysing the structure of digraphs. The problems of finding the basis bicomponents and the reachability relation, measuring vertex accessibility, and ranking from preference relations / sports competitions are considered. It is...

We study the matrices of in-forests of a weighted digraph Γ and their connections with the Laplaeian matrix of Γ. The () entry of is the total weight of spanning converging forests () with arcs such that belongs to a tree rooted at . The forest matrices, , can be calculated recursively and...

To obtain a probabilistic model for a dependent variable based on some set of explanatory variables, a distributional approach is often adopted where the parameters of the distribution are linked to regressors. In many classical models this only captures the location of the distribution but over...

Forest fires constitute a serious and increasing threat throughout Europe, and in particular in Greece, Spain, France, Italy and Portugal. Despite a decreasing trend in the number of fires and areas burned, observed in some countries since the 1980s, larger and more damaging fires (i.e....

This document describes a carbon emission reporting method based on maps of forest changes. The method is based on the Intergovermental Panel on Climate Changes (IPCC) guidelines to define forests, deforestation, and forest degradation from multi-temporal tree cover change maps. The CarbEF...