Given that widespread degradation of tropical forests causes the release of similar amounts of greenhouse gases as deforestation, managed forests could mitigate global warming while contributing to sustainable development. Unfortunately, in the international debates leading up to a post-Kyoto...

The possibility of encouraging the growth of forests as a means of sequestering carbon dioxide has received considerable attention because of concerns about the threat of global climate change due to the greenhouse effect. In fact, this approach is an explicit element of both U.S. and...

Governments contracting with private agents for the provision of an impure public good must contend with agents who would potentially supply the good absent any payments. This additionality problem is centrally important to the use of carbon offsets to mitigate climate change. We analyze optimal...

Governments contracting with private agents for the provision of an impure public good must contend with agents who would potentially supply the good absent any payments. This additionality problem is centrally important in the use of carbon offsets as part of climate change mitigation....

Article describes 1993 lawsuit in Supreme Court of NSW by Forestry Commission of NSW (Australia) against Helmut Aimann, Chris Sheed and other various anti-logging activists, including unnamed persons, seeking to restrain them from "trespassing" in a two publicly owned forests. Categorises this...

This EEA technical report aims to clarify the HNV concept for forests. It also proposes a feasible and replicable methodology to define and identify HNV forest areas in Europe. The proposed methodology, and by extension the ability to measure and monitor changes in HNV areas, is considered...

First-best optimal forest sector carbon policy is examined. Using a comprehensive forest sector model with a detailed carbon cycle section we show that the renewability and carbon neutrality arguments do not warrant emission free treatment of forest bioenergy. However, under the biomass stock...

In this study we estimate the passive use value of forest in different ecological zones in the Mediterranean region. We estimate these values for forests using meta-analysis. These estimates are used to reveal the annual monetary values per hectare for each country. The total annual amount of...

Forests are important resources for local livelihoods and the economy. Forest cover can be significantly affected by changes in institutional and political framework conditions such as induced by the collapse of socialism in Eastern Europe and the war in Kosovo. This study analyzed the...