Forest policy modelling in an economy-wide framework

Handbook of Forest Resource Economics

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 520-537

  Banerjee, Onil ^a   Alavalapati, Janaki R R ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brazil; Computable general equilibrium model; Deforestation; Dynamic model; Forest concessions; Input output; Land use change

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; DYNAMIC MODELS; ECOSYSTEMS; FORESTRY; LAND USE; REGIONAL PLANNING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

BRAZIL; COMPUTABLE GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODEL; FOREST CONCESSIONS; INPUT-OUTPUT; LAND-USE CHANGE;

ECONOMICS;

EID: 84945476697     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203105290     Document Type: Chapter

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