The capacity of forests to store carbon, combined with time-tested approaches to managing forests, make forests a useful tool for atmospheric carbon mitigation. The primary goals of this study are to determine the amount of unrealized mitigation available from Improved Forest Management (IFM) in...

After being subject to several decades of degradation, the bottomland hardwood (BLH) forests within the Lower Mississippi Alluvial Valley have undergone landscape-scale restoration regimes through conservation easement programs, such as the Wetland Reserve Program (WRP). Reforested easements offer...

Between the end of 1980s and today, the timberland asset class managed by timberland investment management organizations in the United States has grown from one to over 30 billion USD. However, to date, the application of scholarly research on the assessment of the performance of private equity...

This study analyses the implementation of the Forest Land Protection Act (FLPA) program in Georgia, USA and assesses the effectiveness of the program in forest conservation and sustainability. The program extended property tax relief to corporate and other large private forest landowners, improved...

With the accelerating globalization, many industries have faced continuous pressure from increasing importation. To protect the domestic industries, trade policies such as uniform tariffs have been widely used in recent years. In this study, the interaction between uniform tariffs on the primary...

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 study assesses the impacts of the China-US trade war on the global forest product markets using the bilateral trade flow module of the Global Forest Products Model. Two alternative scenarios are compared to the business-as-usual situation: (1) the US charges 25% tariff on $200 billion of goods ...

The 17th Symposium on Systems Analysis in Forest Resources was held in Suquamish, Washington, United States on August 27-30, 2017. The goal of this international meeting was to bring together operations researchers, remote sensing scientists, and the government to facilitate the exchange and...

Up to now, relatively little attention has been given to the asymmetric effects of exchange rates on the trade balance in the forest economics literature. Thus, the primary thrust of this article is to probe the asymmetric impacts of exchange rates on exports and imports in the context of bilateral ...