This special issue contains three papers underlining and bringing useful insights on three issues in forest sector modelling that remain to be interesting topics for future research: (1) the trade impacts of forest-related climate policies; (2) the combination of instruments to provide efficient...

This special issue contains seven papers presented at the 'Forests, wood and climate: new results in forest sector modeling. Laboratory of Forest Economics (LEF) biennial workshop 2012,' held in Nancy, France, in 2012. The papers show how forest sector models may help decision making and provide...

This book is a fully up to date study of the major issues facing forest conservation and the forestry industry taking into account developments at local, national and global levels. Central to the analysis is the plight of tropical forests in the developing world but rather than employ a broad...

As European countries move towards steeper cuts in greenhouse gases emissions, questions are mounting, in the forest sector, about the best balance between policies that favor carbon sequestration in biomass, and policies that favor fossil-fuel substitution, with potentially conflicting...

Objectives: (1) To quantify the contribution of the French forest-wood product chain in terms of carbon sequestration and substitution when accounting for both the physical impacts (shifts in tree growth and mortality rates) and the market impacts (increased demand of harvested wood products (HWP)) ...

This special issue contains 8 papers which provides insights on the implications of increased fuelwood demand for forest sectors over the next 10-20 years. The papers in this issue mostly approach the problem at a national scale. However, the implications of fuelwood development at infra- and...

As France works out its plan to tackle climate change issues, questions are arising in the forest sector as to how sectoral mitigation programs such as those designed to enhance fuelwood consumption or to stimulate in-forest carbon sequestration may coincide with an inter-sectoral program such as...

European governments are rapidly turning to biomass to comply with the EU's legislated renewable energy targets for 2020 and 2030. To do so, EU member states will likely have to increase imports of biomass from timber rich regions, which will undoubtedly disrupt international wood product markets....

Protected areas (PAs) are a widely used strategy for conserving forests and ecosystem services. When PAs succeed in deterring economic activities that degrade forests, the impacts include more forest yet less economic gain. These economic opportunity costs of conservation lead actors with economic...

Recent history has seen an increase in the utilization of partial equilibrium based forest sector models to identify potential impacts of various policies or timber market shocks. These models are particularly useful in that they employ economic theory to capture the interaction of supply and...