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Bookmark or Share- A Comparative Analysis of Forest Harvesting, Timber Supply, and Tree ...probabilities of timber harvesting and forest regeneration activities and aggregate timber supply relationships. The latter is especially important for understanding how harvest activities, timber supply, and management at the intensive margin might respond to policies that shift the demand for forest products such as forest bioenergy.
- Effects of Wood Products Markets and Forest Policies on Land Use ChangeMy analysis develops a model of land use choices that links forest products prices to the choices that determine changes in forest use. These include transitions into forest uses (afforestation) and out of forest uses (deforestation). Because land use changes are costly to reverse and are based on uncertain future returns, option values likely
- Forest Products - Resources for the FutureEffects of Wood Products Markets and Forest Policies on Land Use Change. Wood products markets influence returns to forest land uses, and policies targeting these markets in the could influence land use outcomes, with important implications for timber scarcity and conservation in the US South.
- Forest Bioenergy 101: Generation and Emissions - Resources for the FutureForest bioenergy describes the energy generated from the combustion of wood and wood wastes or biofuels derived from wood. Woody material can be sourced from harvested trees or from forest biomass that would otherwise have been treated as waste—residues from a harvest, production of other wood products, or from urban waste streams. Forest ...
- Forest Carbon 201: Land Use Effects of Wood Product MarketsForest carbon is tracked into and out of the three pools shown in Figure 4: standing forests, wood products in use, and wood products in solid waste systems (Figure 5). The net growth of these pools defines the overall sequestration of carbon from the atmosphere--the size of the carbon sink .
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