Adaptive versus fixed policies for economic or ecological objectives in forest management

Forest Ecology and Management

Volumn 254, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 178-187

  Zhou, Mo ^a   Liang, Jingjing ^b   Buongiorno, Joseph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Markov models; Multiple use; Optimization; Risk; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; HARVESTING; OPTIMIZATION;

ECOLOGICAL OBJECTIVES; FIXED POLICIES;

FORESTRY;

CONIFEROUS FOREST; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY POLICY; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; HARVESTING; MODELING; OPTIMIZATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; FORESTRY; HARVESTING; OPTIMIZATION;

NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC NORTHWEST;

CONIUM; STRIGIFORMES;

EID: 37549059595     PISSN: 03781127     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foreco.2007.07.035     Document Type: Article

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