Coactive Forest Management

Download or read book Coactive Forest Management written by Bozzano G Luisa and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2012-12-02 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 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) inteactions and is followed by a set of management science (optimization) procedures that address these interactions and better capture the ecosystem function. - Discusses optimization under conditions of risk and uncertainity in forest management - Explores spatial optimization and multi-level optimization in forest management - Examines joint production theory and joint cost allocation in forest management