Wow! eBook
Coactive Forest Management
Author(s): John Hof (Author)
- Publisher: Academic Press Inc
- Publication Date: 12 May 2000
- Language: English
- Print length: 183 pages
- ISBN-10: 0123518202
- ISBN-13: 9780123518200
Book Description
This book provides a theoretical basis and a collection of management science tools that account for the interactions between different components of a managed forest ecosystem. Accounting for these interactions is the rapid evolution of forest management away from a traditional agricultural commodities production problem to a multi-output problem that gives equivalent emphasis to nonmarket goods and the health of the forest ecosystem itself. The book is a comprehensive theoretical demonstration of the breakdown of traditional benefit/cost analysis in the presence of forest ecosystem (or demand) interactions and is followed by a set of management science (optimization) procedures that address these interactions and better capture the ecosystem function.
