Feasibility of Forest Land Conversion to Other Use by Considering Forest Fragmentation
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Economics of Forest Land Conversion and Fragmentation
This paper looks at the economics of conversion and fragmentation of forest land. The forestry economics literature has generally focussed on the management of a single stand for timber and non-timber forest benefits with little attention being paid to forest level land use decisions, and in particular forest stand interactions. As noted by Bowes and Krutilla (1989), the focus on a single stand...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of the Korea Society of Environmental Restoration Technology
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1229-3032
DOI: 10.13087/kosert.2013.16.4.053