Multi-stand forest management under a climatic risk: Do time and risk preferences matter?

Environmental Modeling and Assessment

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 181-193

  Couture, Stéphane ^a   Reynaud, Arnaud ^b  

^a AGROPARISTECH   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOULOUSE CAPITOLE   (France)

Author keywords

Climate risk; Forest economics; Non expected utility; Stochastic dynamic programming

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE MODELS; FORESTRY; NUMERICAL METHODS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; STOCHASTIC SYSTEMS;

FOREST ECONOMICS; NON-EXPECTED UTILITY; NON-INDUSTRIAL PRIVATE FOREST OWNERS; OPTIMAL CONSUMPTION; OPTIMAL DECISIONS; OPTIMAL FOREST MANAGEMENTS; STOCHASTIC DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING; TIME PREFERENCES;

DYNAMIC PROGRAMMING;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FOREST DYNAMICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; LINEAR PROGRAMING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; STOCHASTICITY;

FRANCE;

EID: 40849096087     PISSN: 14202026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10666-007-9121-7     Document Type: Article

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