The economic impact of the 1998 ice storm on eastern Ontario woodlots: Case studies of red pine and white cedar

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 79, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 31-45

  Heigh, Jeremy ^a   Fox, Glenn ^a   McKenney, Daniel ^b   Rollins, Kimberly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b LAURENTIAN FORESTRY CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Natural disaster policy; Partial capital budget; Sensitivity analysis; Stochastic simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSTS; ECONOMICS; ESTIMATION; ICE; STORMS;

ECONOMIC COSTS;

FORESTRY;

DISTURBANCE; ECONOMIC IMPACT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; ICE STORM; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SILVICULTURE;

COSTS; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; FORESTRY; ICE;

CANADA; ONTARIO;

PINUS RESINOSA; THUJA; THUJA OCCIDENTALIS;

EID: 0038018543     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc79031-1     Document Type: Article

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