The forest rotation problem with stochastic harvest and amenity value

Natural Resource Modeling

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 477-509

  Alvarez, Luis H R ^a   Koskela, Erkki ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^c CESIFO   (Germany)

^d IZA   (Germany)

Author keywords

Forest stand value volatility; Nature of amenity valuation; Optimal faust mannian and wicksellian rotation policy

Indexed keywords

EID: 55549107308     PISSN: 08908575     EISSN: 19397445     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1939-7445.2007.tb00218.x     Document Type: Article

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