This paper focuses on issues surrounding the management of Philippine commercial forests as it deals with forest destruction and renewal problems. Likewise, the economics of commercial forest management for both natural forests and tree plantations is highlighted. Policy implications are...

The impact of government policies on forest resource utilization is analyzed using two conceptual frameworks. The first focuses on determinants of resource depletion and the rate at which the resource is extracted by economic activity while the second focuses on the impact of government policies...

This article is a product of a nine-month training and application program implemented by the micro component of the Economic and Social Impact Analysis/Women in Development (ESIA/WID) and the Food Systems Program of the East-West Center Resource Systems Institute (RSI). It focuses on two...

Among the components in the inventory of greenhouse gas sources and sinks, forestry and land use are the most complex. This paper summarizes the necessary data on land use. Analysis indicates a change in the inventory/sinks done by the Philippine Forestry and Land Use Change.

Modeling the relationship between population growth and migration, this paper shows that destinations with higher average household incomes attract many immigrants. While it is not different from previous studies, this paper utilizes more environmentally based measures of economic opportunity at...

This article is prepared for the Upland Policy Conference on March 14, 1988. It discusses several concerns in forestry and upland resources management focusing on the issues of logging, forest destruction and the continuous conversion of forestlands into land uses that are generally prone to...

This article documents the following objective: the processes through which pilot agro-forestation development projects (AFDPs) implementors seek to achieve their objective, the mechanisms through which AFDPs may be expected to produce an impact on the areas of concern and the interrelationships...

This article is prepared for the Upland Policy Conference on March 14, 1988. It analyzes the private perspective of upland resource management mechanisms by drawing from the salient findings of studies on commercial forestry, reforestation and communal tree farming conducted under PIDS/IDRC...

This paper examines the Community-Based Forest Management Program (CBFM) and Industrial Forest Management Agreements (IFMA) within the context of efficient forest management. Investigation on ways of accomplishing the objectives of the agency, community and commercial forestry in decreased costs...

The valuation of resources found in the watershed area is important in assessing the impacts of changes in the watershed. While the change will have positive impacts which are short-term in nature, there are long-term environmental damages associated with economic benefits. This paper gives a...