Climate change exerts an increasingly strong influence on Swiss forest ecosystems. Changes in site conditions and the increased risk of disturbances (droughts, windthrow, storms) have a considerable negative impact on the silvicultural potential of forests. However, these effects can be mitigated...

For a sawmill, the amount of CO₂ generated by its construction and subsequent production activities was estimated. The sawmill has been in operation for the last 90 years and has processed around 30,000 m³ of logs annually. We have determined the forest area that would remove this amount of exhaust ...

This article presents three new products from the Swiss National Forest Inventory (NFI), which help make timber harvesting more efficient and optimize forest development. The first product is a model for deriving the most economical timber harvesting process on each NFI sample area. For this...

The federal forest legislation aims to ensure that the forest can fulfil protective and welfare functions for the benefit of the general public and commercial functions for the benefit of forest owners in a balanced way. From the perspective of regulatory economics, the question arises as to...

With this article we try to give an extensive overview of the development of the Faustmann model (cf. Figure 1). Goal of the article is to outline and discuss the basic assumptions behind the Faustmann formula and describe the developments of the Faustmann model with regard to main trends and...

Core parameters of forest economics such as land expectation value or highest revenue show that damage caused by wild ungulates can critically influence the economic success of forest enterprises. When assessing and evaluating the damage in order to calculate damage compensation, methods are...

The issue of normative decision models in forest economics is to evaluate the best possible decision from a given set of possible operations. In decisions about capital usage, the interest rate functions as guide-price, when foresters decide to harvest trees or forest stands. When...

The aim of this study is to analyze the role of the interest rate in models for forest planning in the context of investment theory by using close to practice calculations. First, we present the model of the perfect capital market, which generally assumes an exogenous interest rate as an indicator...

Support for forestry in Switzerland under the new system of fiscal equalization and division of tasks between the Confederation and the cantons (NFE) has now entered its third phase. Program agreements between Confederation and cantons have improved implementation. The operational scope of action...

Since 2011, Forest Policy 2020 has been the federal government's action programme to ensure that the forest can fulfil its multiple functions for society, the economy, ecology, and the climate. After more than ten years, a new action programme is now being developed for the period from 2025...