Coactive forest management /

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 commodi...

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Main Author: Hof, John G.
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: San Diego : Academic Press, ©1993.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (x, 189 pages) : illustrations
Format:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-183) and index.
ISBN:0323138470
9780323138475
1299195326
9781299195325