Resource and market projections for forest policy development
[Book]
twenty-five years of experience with the U.S. RPA timber assessment /
edited by Darius M. Adams and Richard W. Haynes.
Dordrecht, The Netherlands :
Springer,
c2007.
xxii, 589 p. :
ill., maps ;
24 cm.
Managing forest ecosystems ;
v. 14
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 managemen--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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