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Tropical
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 ECONOMICS
 The Economics of the Tropical Timber Trade
Barbier,E.B. et al 1994
Earthscan Publications. Ltd. UK. 179pp
ISBN 1-85383-219-7
The Use of Economics to Assess Stakeholder
Incentives in Participatory Forest Management
Davies, Jonathan and Richards, Michael. 1999
European Union Tropical Forestry Paper 5, ODI
ISBN 85003 4760.
An excellent summary of economic valuation methods suitable for application to all types of natural
resource management. It
deals in particular with the problems of assessing the economics of community natural forest management
and develops an
economic stakeholder analysis methodology.
Internalising the Externalities of Tropical Forestry
A Review of Innovative Financing and Incentive Mechanisms.
Michael Richards, 1999
EU Tropical Forestry Paper 1, ODI
ISBN 0 85003 4027
A concise overview of the various incentives and subsidies that are used at both the national
and international level to encourage
better forest management practices.
Rethinking the Causes of Deforestation
Lessons from Economic Models
Angelsen, A. and Kaimowitz, D. 1999.
World Bank Research Observer 14 (1), February 1999; pp 73-98
A summary of a study done for CIFOR which looks at the statistical work on all causes of deforestation.
Economics of Non-Timber Forest Benefits
An Overview
Bishop, Joshua T. 1999,
IIED Environmental Economics Series: EEP Gatekeeper Series GK 98-01 1999/01, 31pp
ISSN 13579282
This paper provides an overview of the economics of non-timber forest products and services. It focuses
on recent advances in
the economic evaluation of forestry activities and, in particular, on how techniques for valuing non-timber
forest benefits in
monetary terms can assist the development of forest policy and management systems. It first considers
the non-market nature of
many non-timber forest benefits, and the reasons why markets often fail to account for them. The paper
then reviews the different
techniques used to evaluate non-market benefits in monetary terms.
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