Modeling forest owner harvesting behaviour and future intentions in Tasmania

Small-scale Forestry

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 175-193

  van Putten, Ingrid ^a   Jennings, Sarah ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Discreet modelling; Econometric models; Forest harvesting; Landowner objectives; Logit; Tobit

Indexed keywords

ECONOMETRICS; FOREST MANAGEMENT; FOREST RESOURCE; FORESTRY POLICY; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; HARVESTING; LANDOWNER; LOGIT ANALYSIS; MODELING;

AUSTRALIA; TASMANIA;

EID: 77951978807     PISSN: 18737617     EISSN: 18737854     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11842-010-9109-z     Document Type: Article

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