Increasing resilience of timber supply: How a variable buffer stock of timber can efficiently reduce exposure to shortfalls caused by wildfires

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 46, Issue , 2014, Pages 47-55

  Raulier, Frédéric ^a   Dhital, Narayan ^a   Racine, Pierre ^a   Tittler, Rebecca ^b   Fall, Andrew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Boreal forest; Contingency inventory; Forest fire; Risk assessment; Sustainability; Timber supply planning

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FIRE PROTECTION; FIRES; GREENHOUSE GASES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

BOREAL FORESTS; CONTINGENCY INVENTORY; FOREST FIRES; FOREST MANAGEMENT UNITS; GREENHOUSE-GAS FORCING; PROBABILITY OF FAILURE; PROBABILITY OF OCCURRENCE; TIMBER SUPPLY;

TIMBER;

DEFORESTATION; FOREST FIRES; FORESTS; GREENHOUSE GASES; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84904409530     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2014.06.007     Document Type: Article

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