Throughout Southeast Asia, the situation today is essentially the same. A deadly combination of poorly regulated commercial logging and a thriving illegal timber trade are decimating forest resources across the region. According to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organization, SE Asia has the highest rate of deforestation in the world (Fahn 2003). Ecological destruction of this scale has profound...

A forest owner with hyperbolic time preferences is considered. At each period the irreversible decision to harvest an old-growth forest could be taken. Conservation is the alternative. Future amenity value flow is uncertain while the net value of stumpage timber is known and constant. The decision problem is expressed as an optimal stopping problem and solved analytically in a time-inconsistent...

Because non-industrial private forests (NIPFs) comprise over 60% of forestland, NIPF owners may substantially affect timber supply and ecosystem quality. A dynamic model shows that NIPF owners may maximize timber income despite receiving utility from nontimber goods. The model links landowners' behavior to ecosystem management by introducing the ecosystem as an alternative source of nontimber g...

There are very few resources available to the timber industry that will enable the accurate identification of major tree species within Papua New Guinea. The unnecessary destruction of rare and otherwise valuable tree species has, in part, resulted from the inability to distinguish these species from the preferred timber species. Furthermore, the mixture of unwanted timber with that from prefer...

tance of dipterocarps in the global timber industry. Part of the value of timber from Southeast Asia is that most comes from dipterocarps; it is light and easily worked and can be sold in large volumes under just a few wood types. One of the great tragedies of the Asian timber industry is that dipterocarp forests are amenable to selective harvesting and long-term management, but economic and po...

May of the features of Timber have been adopted from the reactive object-oriented concurrent functional language O’Haskell [15], which was in turn defined as an extension to the purely functional language Haskell [12]. However, the Haskellian ancestry of Timber should not cause it to be ignored by the wider (non-functional) programming language community. Indeed, Timber attempts to combine the ...

The combustibility of timber is one of the main reasons that many building regulations strictly limit the use of timber as a building material. Fire safety is an important contribution to feeling safe, and an important criterion for the choice of building materials. The main precondition for an increased use of timber in buildings is adequate fire safety. This paper reviews the opportunities an...

Please cite this article in press as: Millington, J songbirds and timber production. Forest Ecol. The structure of forest stands is an important determinant of habitat use by songbirds, including species of conservation concern. In this paper, we investigate the combined long-term impacts of variable tree regeneration and timber management on stand structure, songbird occupancy probabilities, a...

An econometric analysis was conducted with the intent of discovering the relationship between contractual provisions, as specified in timber sale notices, with high bids received for those timber sales. Specifically, the goal of this study was to determine the relationship between high bids for timber tracts and certain contractual stipulations that have not previously been explored to any grea...

Elastic timber gridshells are lightweight structures whose stiffness is highly dependent on multiple factors, such as boundary conditions and the semi-rigidity eccentricity of joints. Their structural analysis requires calibrated numerical models that incorporate all aspects influencing stiffness. Unfortunately, very little research experimentally verified can be found. This paper focuses behav...