Overview

In 1996 a major six-year research programme, 'Economic Optimisation of Multiple-Use Forestry and Other Natural Resources' was implemented at Department of Economics and Natural Resources, The Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University (KVL), Copenhagen. The research is funded by KVL; The Danish Agricultural and Veterinary Research Council; The Danish Research Academy; The Danish Forest and Landscape Institute; The Danish Forest and Nature Agency; and The Danish Environmental Protection Agency. The overall objective of the research programme is to enhance the economic theory of sustainable multiple-use forestry and landscape management planning. Emphasis is on decision-making ! management planning from an economic point of view, the basic criterion being rationality as implemented by application of Operations Research methods with regard to sustainable and multiple use of forests and other natural resources in the landscape. The research programme benefits from collaboration agreements with University of California at Berkeley, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, and Oregon State University, Department of Forest Resources. As part of the research programme, a second international conference and workshop was held 6 - 12 August, 1998 at KVL, with the title: '2nd Berkeley-KVL Conference on Natural Resource Management -Design and Implementation of Multiple-Use Management'. This event was financed by The Danish Research Academy. Some of the papers presented were selected for peer-reviewing and subsequent publishing. The outcome is the present book in which no paper has been previously published.

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Author:   F. Helles ,  Per Holten-Andersen ,  Lars Wichmann
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999
Volume:   61
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.415kg
ISBN:  

9781402002779

ISBN 10:   1402002777
Pages:   252
Publication Date:   30 November 2001
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

List of Contents.- I Survey.- Why are the uses multiple?.- Modelling ecosystem processes and patterns for multiple-use management.- Descriptive indicators of sustainable forest management.- Discounting in the context of multiple objectives.- Stated and revealed preference analysis: Cost—benefit analysis, democracy and multiple-objective decision-making.- II Multi-Criteria Decision-Making: Theory and Methods.- Choosing between models of choice: On the selection of MCDM planning modes.- Multiple objective linear programming in supporting forest management.- The analytic hierachy process (AHP): Standard version, forestry application and advances.- III Stakeholder Involvement.- Multiple objective optimisation in agro-ecological land use planning.- Public participation in forest management planning supported by multi-criteria decision-making techniques.- IV Diversity Objectives and Option Value.- Managing forests for tree and landscape diversity Part I: Predictions with Markov-chain models.- Managing forests for tree and landscape diversity Part II: Optimisation with Markov decision process model.- Groundwater protection and forest management — an option value analysis.- V Spatial Objectives.- How to integrate spatial objectives into private forest planning in Finland.- A spatial optimisation model for wetlands restoration planning integrating GIS and linear programming.- A cellular automaton approach to optimising the choice of tree species.- VI Cost Efficiency.- A method for comparison of efficiency scores: A case study of Danish dairy farms.- Biological insecticides contra insect growth regulators in Polish forestry — a financial cost-benefit analysis.- List of Authors.

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