In recent decades, concerns have arisen about the proper valuation of the world’s forests. While some of these concerns have to do with market distortions for timber products or inadequate data on non-timber forest products, an additional challenge is to uncover the economic worth of nonmarket services provided by forest ecosystems (Kramer et al. 1997). This has led to a growing number of publi...

This paper examines the progressive deployment of the enterprise resource planning software package, MFG/PR0 by the Australian manufacturing and distribution conglomerate CSR Ltd. within its forestry and forest products divisions. Reasons for initial deployment and the ostensible range of benefits obtained subsequent to initial deployment were investigated, as was the recent sale of the majorit...

The Biodiversity Support Program (BSP) was established in 1988 with funding from the Research and Development Bureau of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), under cooperative agreement number DHR-5554-A-00-8044-00. BSP is implemented by a consortium of World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy, and the World Resources Institute. The central purpose of the program is to suppo...