Optimizing continuous cover management of boreal forest when timber prices and tree growth are stochastic

Forest Ecosystems

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Pukkala, Timo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

Author keywords

Adaptive optimization; Anticipatory optimization; Reservation price; Risk; Risk preferences; Stochastic optimization; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 84966683584     PISSN: 20956355     EISSN: 21975620     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s40663-015-0028-5     Document Type: Article

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