Shadow Pricing Trade-Offs between Timber Supply and Environmental Quality

1998 ◽  
pp. 111-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dietmar W. Rose ◽  
Syed A. Husain
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Timber Supply ◽  
Shadow Pricing ◽  
Trade Offs

scholarly journals The Impact of Forest Management Restrictions on Aspen Harvest Levels and Forest Structure in Itasca County, Minnesota

1999 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 177-184
Author(s):  
Joan M. Nichols ◽  
Dietmar W. Rose ◽  
Syed A. Husain
Keyword(s):  
Forest Structure ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Forest Composition ◽  
Timber Supply ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Spatial Attributes ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Selection Of

Abstract Potential management policies of the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources (MDNR) designed to enhance nontimber values were examined to estimate their impact on permissible harvest levels, forest composition and spatial attributes of aspen in Itasca County, Minnesota. An allowable cut equal to the Long Run Sustained Yield (LRSY) was estimated and used as the target harvest level for each management policy. Results were analyzed in a number of ways including Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The study illustrates that the selection of specific management policies can have significant impacts on timber supply as well as forest structures. Therefore, any suggested policy should always be reviewed for its potential impacts and associated trade-offs before implementation. North. J. Appl. For. 16(4):177-184.

Joint production of timber, carbon, and wildlife habitat in the Canadian boreal plains

2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 1478-1492 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geoffrey R. McCarney ◽  
Glen W. Armstrong ◽  
Wiktor L. Adamowicz
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Budget ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Forest Cover ◽  
Natural Disturbance ◽  
Wildlife Habitat ◽  
Joint Production ◽  
Timber Supply ◽  
Budget Model ◽  
Carbon Budget Model ◽  
Trade Offs

This study investigates the relationships and trade-offs between forest carbon management, sustained timber yield, and the production of wildlife habitat to provide a more complete picture of the costs and challenges faced by forest managers for a particular case study in Canada’s boreal mixedwood region. The work presented is an extension of a previously published model that analysed the joint production of timber supply and wildlife habitat using a natural disturbance model approach to ecosystem management. The primary contribution of the present study is the detailed incorporation of a carbon budget model into the framework developed previously. Using the Carbon Budget Model of the Canadian Forest Sector, dynamics specific to separate biomass and dead organic matter carbon pools are represented for individual forest cover types. Results indicate the potential for cost thresholds in the joint production of timber supply and carbon sequestration. These thresholds are linked to switch points in the decision between multiple use and specialized land management practices. Cobenefits in the production of carbon and wildlife habitat are shown to depend on ecological parameters, harvest flow regulations, and incentives for timber supply provided by the market.

scholarly journals Assessing the trade-offs between timber supply and wildlife protection goals in boreal landscapes

2019 ◽  
pp. 243-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denys Yemshanov ◽  
Robert G. Haight ◽  
Ning Liu ◽  
Marc-André Parisien ◽  
Quinn Barber ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Programming Model ◽  
Unit Cost ◽  
Timber Harvest ◽  
Timber Supply ◽  
Protection Measures ◽  
Habitat Protection ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
The Impact

Protecting wildlife within areas of resource extraction often involves reducing habitat fragmentation. In Canada, protecting threatened woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou (Gmelin, 1788)) populations requires preserving large areas of intact forest habitat, with some restrictions on industrial forestry activities. We present a linear programming model that assesses the trade-off between achieving an objective of habitat protection for caribou populations while maintaining desired levels of harvest in forest landscapes. The habitat-protection objective maximizes the amount of connected habitat that is accessible by caribou, and the forestry objective maximizes net revenues from timber harvest subject to even harvest flow, a harvest target, and environmental sustainability constraints. We applied the model to explore the habitat protection and harvesting scenarios in the Cold Lake caribou range, a 6726 km2 area of prime caribou habitat in Alberta, Canada. We evaluated harvest scenarios ranging from 0.1 Mm3·year–1 to maximum sustainable harvest levels over 0.7 Mm3·year–1 and assessed the impact of habitat protection measures on timber supply costs. Protecting caribou habitat by deferring or reallocating harvest increases the timber unit cost by Can$1.1–2.0 m–3. However, this impact can be partially mediated by extending the harvest to areas of oil and gas extraction to offset forgone harvest in areas of prime caribou habitat.

scholarly journals The Role of Nature-Based Solutions for Improving Environmental Quality, Health and Well-Being

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (19) ◽  
pp. 10950
Author(s):  
Hai-Ying Liu ◽  
Marion Jay ◽  
Xianwen Chen
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Urban Resilience ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Quality Health ◽  
Health And Well Being

Nature-based solutions (NbS) have been positioned and implemented in urban areas as solutions for enhancing urban resilience in the face of a wide range of urban challenges. However, there is a lack of recommendations of optimal NbS and appropriate typologies fitting to different contexts and urban design. The analytical frameworks for NbS implementation and impact evaluation, that integrate NbS into local policy frameworks, socio-economic transition pathways, and spatial planning, remain fragmented. In this article, the NbS concept and its related terminologies are first discussed. Second, the types of NbS implemented in Europe are reviewed and their benefits over time are explored, prior to categorizing them and highlighting the key methods, criteria, and indicators to identify and assess the NbS’s impacts, co-benefits, and trade-offs. The latter involved a review of the websites of 52 projects and some relevant publications funded by EU Research and Innovation programs and other relevant publications. The results show that there is a shared understanding that the NbS concept encompasses benefits of restoration and rehabilitation of ecosystems, carbon neutrality, improved environmental quality, health and well-being, and evidence for such benefits. This study also shows that most NbS-related projects and activities in Europe use hybrid approaches, with NbS typically developed, tested, or implemented to target specific types of environmental–social–economic challenges. The results of this study indicate that NbS as a holistic concept would be beneficial in the context of climate action and sustainable solutions to enhance ecosystem resilience and adaptive capacity within cities. As such, this article provides a snapshot of the role of NbS in urban sustainability development, a guide to the state-of-the-art, and key messages and recommendations of this rapidly emerging and evolving field.

Forest and economic impacts of alternative management strategies on Crown land in New Brunswick

2007 ◽  
Vol 37 (12) ◽  
pp. 2624-2636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael I.L. Kennedy ◽  
Van A. Lantz ◽  
David A. MacLean
Keyword(s):  
Manufacturing Sector ◽  
Economic Impacts ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Planning Horizon ◽  
Timber Supply ◽  
Growing Stock ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Volume Production ◽  
Business As Usual

This study evaluated the long-run economic impacts of four alternative forest management strategies on New Brunswick’s Crown land forests: two volume-based strategies focused on business as usual (BAU) and intensive (INT) timber volume production and two value-based strategies focused on forest manufacturing sector contribution to gross domestic product (GDP) and government surplus (GOV). These were defined within an extended wood supply model that incorporated both economic indicators (logging sector profit, government surplus, forest manufacturing sector shipments, and forest manufacturing sector GDP) and timber supply indicators (harvest levels, operable growing stock, and products). Results showed that a number of indicator trade-offs emerge under each strategy. For instance, the GOV strategy produced the highest present value government surplus value (at $1.2 billion, exceeding INT, BAU, and GDP strategies by $352 million, $302 million, and $169 million, respectively) and logging sector profit (at $2.4 billion, exceeding BAU, INT, and GDP strategies by $4 million, $11 million, and $8 million, respectively) over an 80 year planning horizon. However, this strategy also produced the lowest forest manufacturing sector contribution to GDP (at $12.8 billion, below the GDP, INT, and BAU strategies by $4.3 billion, $1.6 billion, and $1.4 billion, respectively) and the lowest annual softwood volume harvest, operable growing stock, and silvicultural investment of all strategies. Thus, although these findings emphasize that value-based strategies can produce some favourable economic outcomes, a number of trade-offs emerge that need to be further investigated before such strategies can be supported.

The conflict in managing New Brunswick's forests for timber and other values

1999 ◽  
Vol 75 (6) ◽  
pp. 945-954 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thom A. Erdle
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
New Brunswick ◽  
Industrial Development ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Timber Production ◽  
Timber Supply ◽  
Treatment Timing ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Forest Values ◽  
Management Challenge

A key forest management challenge in Canada, and elsewhere, is to strike an acceptable balance between the various values for which forests are to be managed. Striking that balance between commodity, aesthetic, environmental, and other values is difficult because (a) what defines an acceptable balance varies between parties who weight such values differently, and (b) some values are incompatible, in that managing for the betterment of one occurs at the expense of another. Timber supply is an important economic value in Canada, but there is clear evidence of an increasing social demand to favour non-timber values in forest management to a greater extent than has occurred in the past. Accommodating this demand often has negative timber supply consequences, thus forcing difficult decisions involving tradeoffs between values. Such tradeoffs occur when management decisions affect any of three primary factors of timber production, namely, landbase size, stand growth rates, and treatment timing choices. In New Brunswick, where aggressive industrial development has resulted in intensive use of the forest for timber production, the tradeoffs between timber and non-timber values are particularly difficult to make. Using New Brunswick as an example, this paper explores the mechanisms by which forest values conflict. It employs a simple land allocation schematic to illustrate the nature of that conflict, to identify plausible future scenarios in which that conflict is likely to intensify, and to discuss possible mitigating strategies. Key words: forest management, land zoning, nontimber values, trade-offs, New Brunswick forestry

Sacred versus Pseudo-Sacred Values: How People Cope with Taboo Trade-Offs

2017 ◽  
Vol 107 (5) ◽  
pp. 96-99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip E. Tetlock ◽  
Barbara A. Mellers ◽  
J. Peter Scoblic
Keyword(s):  
Social Cohesion ◽  
Shadow Pricing ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Sacred Values ◽  
Moral Absolutes

Psychologists have documented widespread public deference to “sacred values” that communities, formally or informally, exempt from tradeoffs with secular limits, like money. This work has, however, been largely confined to low-stakes settings. As the stakes rise, deference must decline because people can't write blank checks for every “sacred” cause. Shadow pricing is inevitable which sets the stage for political blame-games of varying sophistication. In a rational world, citizens would accept the necessity of such tradeoffs, but the attraction to moral absolutes is strong--perhaps even essential for social cohesion.

scholarly journals Does the oil palm certification create trade-offs between environment and development in Indonesia?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Janice Ser Huay Lee ◽  
Daniela A. Miteva ◽  
Kimberly M. Carlson ◽  
Robert Heilmayr ◽  
Omar Saif
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Palm Oil ◽  
Oil Palm ◽  
Environmental Conservation ◽  
Educational Facilities ◽  
Conservation And Development ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
Development Outcomes ◽  
Primary Forests

***This article has been accepted in Environmental Research Letters. Please refer to the DOI for the accepted manuscript: https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/abc279.*** Environmental and social problems triggered by rapid palm oil expansion in the tropics have spurred the proliferation of sustainability certification systems such as the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO). While the RSPO aims to improve the impact of oil palm production on people and environments, its effect on local development, environmental quality, and, especially, potential trade-offs between these outcomes remain unclear. Here, we evaluate whether RSPO certification of large-scale industrial concessions has promoted village development and supported environmental quality in Indonesia, the top global palm oil producer. Using a panel dataset with observations from 11,000 villages in Kalimantan and Sumatra from 2003-2014, we apply rigorous quasi-experimental methods to quantify the RSPO's impacts on village development and environmental outcomes. In the short-run, RSPO contributed to environmental conservation, but had limited development outcomes. On average, relative to villages with non-certified concessions, RSPO certification reduced deforestation and protected primary forests in Sumatra and lowered the incidence of village-reported land pollution in Kalimantan. RSPO certification also increased the number of private educational facilities in Kalimantan, but had no statistically significant impacts on other development indicators. However, the trade-offs and complementarities between conservation and development vary by slope, a proxy for ecosystem fragility and oil palm profitability. On gentler slopes, we generally find complementarities between conservation and development outcomes. In Kalimantan, certification increased the number of private educational facilities and reduced deforestation and the incidence of land pollution on slopes <2°. In Sumatra, certification increased primary forests, decreased deforestation and the incidence of water pollution on slopes <1°, along with a decrease in population density. Higher slopes in both locations were associated with environment and development trade-offs. We highlight the need to better understand the mechanisms behind the impacts of RSPO and emphasized how the outcomes of certification depend on the communities' bargaining power and the profitability of the land for oil palm production. Thus, we provide insights into understanding these mechanisms behind the impacts of RSPO, which is a prerequisite for improving the design of certification systems and their impacts on the ground.

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