Resource and market projections for forest policy development twenty-five years of experience with the U.S. RPA timber assessment /

Long-range models that include product and resource detail are essential to meaningful analysis of both industry and resource sustainability. Taking this as its central argument, this book provides essential reading to anyone interested in projecting the future of either the forest products market a...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Adams, Darius Mainard, 1944-, Haynes, Richard W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht, the Netherlands : Springer, ©2007.
Dordrecht, the Netherlands : [2007]
Series:Managing forest ecosystems ; v. 14.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxii, 589 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Subjects:
Forests and forestry -- United States -- Forecasting -- Mathematical models.
Forest policy -- United States.
Forest products industry -- United States -- Forecasting.
Timber -- United States -- Forecasting.
Logging -- United States -- Forecasting.
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Online Access:SpringerLink - Click here for access
Contents:
  • 1. The challenge of developing models to support forest sector policy analysis
  • 2. Methodological considerations in developing the Timber Assessment Projection System
  • 3. Solid woo--Timber Assessment Market model
  • 4. North American Pulp and Paper model (NAPAP)
  • 5. Methods for projecting areas of private timberland and forest cover types
  • 6. Timber inventory and management--ATLAS
  • 7. Exogenous assumptions--framing the base case and scenarios
  • 8. Model solution, validation and control
  • 9. Base case projection
  • 10. Evolving views of the future of the U.S. forest sector
  • 11. The impact of public harvest in the U.S. on North American timber and product markets
  • 12. The role of private management investment in long-term supply
  • 13. Globalization and world trade
  • 14. The impacts of climate change on forestry
  • 15. Projecting technological change
  • 16. Long-term views of the U.S. land base
  • 17. The utility of forest sector models in addressing forest policy questions
  • App. 1. Common and scientific names of species
  • App. 2. Acronym list.

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