This study investigates the tradeoffs among different uses of forests in the Swedish mountain region, where several interest groups use the forests for different and conflicting objectives. The tradeoffs information can help the involved interest groups to reach a rational compromise on the...

This study analyzes the economic effects of environmental concerns in forest management in the Swedish mountain region. The environmental concerns include the amount of deadwood, the area of broad-leaved forest, and the area of old growth forest. The analyses are performed by formulating a fuzzy...

A classical problem in forestry is the determination of the optimal rotation. This problem was solved during the 19th century, by German forest mathematicians. Martin Faustmann deserves some of the fame. However, he did not explicitly derive the conditions for an optimal solution. His contender...

This paper develops an optimal harvesting model for the wild Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar), where various age classes of the population is included. It is shown that the marginal value-fecundity relationship of the spawning population, comprising young and old fish, is crucial for the optimal...

A mail survey of NIPF owners in two counties in northern Sweden was conducted to investigate the risk preferences, perceptions of the return and risk of timber investment relative to investment alternatives outside forestry. Our aim was to determine to what extent the NIPF owners’ harvesting...

Woody biomass is the largest source of renewable energy in Europe and the expected increase in demand for wood was the stimulus for writing this paper. We discuss the economic effects of biophysical capacity limits in forest yield from a partial equilibrium perspective. Opportunities to increase...

China implemented a new round of collective forestland tenure reform during 2003–2013. In this reform, forestland owned by villages or township collective organizations were divided into a great number of small plots and allocated to member households of the collectives. A widespread concern...