The International Society of Forest Resource Economics 2018 Annual Meeting was held in Gatlinburg, TN, March 19-21, 2018. The meeting was attended by a range of forest economics professionals to discuss developments in various aspects of forest economics including traditional and emerging markets...

Long-term forest monitoring is vital to understand how Hawaiian forests change over time and to manage and conserve natural resources. Forest inventories are assessed about every 10 years in Hawai'i by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Inventory and Analysis (FIA) program,...

This report, an output of ITTO's Biennial Work Programme activity on legal and sustainable supply chains, describes a model developed to forecast trends in tropical timber supply and trade to 2050. It analyzes a number of potential scenarios and examines previous economic and non-economic shocks to ...

These proceedings summarize the results of a symposium designed to address current issues of agencies with wildland fire protection responsibility at the federal and state levels in the United States as well as agencies in the international community. The topics discussed at the symposium included...

This report presents survey results for Ontario's secondary wood manufacturing industries in 2017. The survey compiled operational, employment, production, marketing, and financial information on eight business types. This was the first Canadian Forest Service survey of this segment of the Ontario ...

A majority of rural, agricultural households in Nepal rely on forests for firewood and fodder. Access to the forest clearly matters, but might not be as simple as proximity if quality varies by management and property regime. Using two rounds (2003/2004 and 2010/2011) of nationally representative...

This report presents the survey results for Quebec's secondary wood manufacturing industries in 2017. The survey compiled operational, employment, production, marketing, and financial information for eight business types. This is the first Canadian Forest Service survey of this subsector of...

This proceedings contains 63 oral, 11 poster, 2 panel, and 2 keynote papers. These papers address topics including: economic impact analysis, international trade, ecosystem services and non-market valuation, policy and governance, climate change and bioenergy markets, traditional and non-timber ...

Trade liberalization can spur environmental degradation. Concerns over these adverse impacts have led to a debate over the need for environmental provisions in regional trade agreements (RTAs), however the effectiveness of such provisions is unknown. This paper provides new causal evidence that...

This proceedings contains 12 full papers and 21 extended abstract of papers presented at the conference. The papers discuss the forest vegetation simulator (FVS) in general, and the following topics in relation to the model: modernization and development of new variants extensions, post processors, ...