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Title

Introduction to forest resource economics / William A. Duerr.

Author

Duerr, William A. (William Allen), 1911-

Publication

New York : McGraw-Hill, ©1993.

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Description

xviii, 485 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

How are forest resources created and used? How do they contribute to our happiness? What are some of the issues in forest resource stewardship? How should these issues be addressed? What principles should be followed? What is the future of forestry? How can - and do - we affect its future? Such is the subject of Introduction To Forest Resource Economics. From the "Father of Forestry Economics," this new book delivers far more than just the economics of forests. This impressive work provides readers with a realistic view of forestry economics, based on the author's experience of over 40 years in forestry. It covers a wide range of topics - carefully subdivided to enable readers to easily focus on one or more narrow topics of special interest. Approaching forestry economics from a social science perspective and considering the human factors involved, the book includes consumers and consumers attitudes. Special emphasis is placed on the critically important areas of world forestry, nontimber forestry, and consumer economics, and an important theme of the book involves nations' interdependencies: geographic, cultural, and political.

Series Statement

McGraw-Hill series in forest resources

Uniform Title

McGraw-Hill series in forest resources.

Subject

• Forests and forestry > Economic aspects
• Forests and forestry > Economic aspects > United States
• Forest products industry
• Forest products industry > United States
• Forest products industry
• Forests and forestry > Economic aspects
• Forstwirtschaft
• Holzindustrie
• Bosbouw
• United States
• USA

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

pt. 1. A Setting for Social Science in Forestry. 2. World Forest Areas. 3. Forestry and Economic Development. 4. Timber Economy of the World. 5. Nontimber Forestry. 6. World Forestry Characteristics and Problems -- pt. 2. Consumers and Their Wants. 9. Consumer Attitudes toward Wood. 10. Consumerism and Environmentalism. 11. Consumers' Evaluation of Landscapes. 12. Consumers' Subjective Values: Resources. 13. Consumer Demand for Forest Resources. 14. Consumption of Forest Resources -- pt. 3. Genetic Production. 17. Best Stocking of Divisible Timber Capital. 18. Financial Maturity of Indivisible Timber Capital. 19. Working with Compound Interest. 20. Finding a Guiding Rate of Return. 21. Adjusted Financial Maturity of Indivisible Capital. 22. Financial Maturity of Divisible Timber Capital. 23. Some Financial Investment Criteria. 24. What Affects the Best Combination? 25. Does Forestry Pay? 26. Forest Fertilization. 27. Weighing Alternatives in Wildfire Management. 28. Multiple Use of Forest Resources. 29. Supply of Forest Outputs -- pt. 4. Manufacturing Production. 31. Uncertainty and Simple Forecasting. 32. Deliberated Forecasting in the Forestry Economy. 33. Preamble to Part Four. 34. Evaluating a Harvesting Procedure. 35. Wood Industry in a West Coast State. 36. Getting Established in the Southern Pine Lumber Industry. 37. Economic Feasibility of a Panel Plant in Appalachia. 38. Weighing a Lake States Pulp-Paper Enterprise. 39. Productivity in Wood Manufacture. 40. Supply of Manufactured Outputs -- pt. 5. Marketing and Valuation. 43. Market Organization in Forestry. 44. Market Geography in Forestry. 45. Price Trends in the Timber Economy. 46. Fluctuations in the Timber-Products Markets. 47. Appraising Forest Resource Value. 48. Input-Output Analysis. 49. Stumpage Appraisal. 50. Conversion Surplus as a Measure of Value -- pt. 6. Social Institutions. 53. Labor in Forestry and Wood Industry. 54. Land-Use Regulation. 55. Influences of Fiscal and Monetary Policies. 56. Federal Tax on Corporate Income. 57. Federal Tax on Individual Income. 58. Taxes on Forest Property. 59. Social Planning for the Timber Economy. 60. Social Planning for Forestry.

ISBN

• 0070179824
• 9780070179820

LCCN

92037798

OCLC

• ocm26851462
• 26851462
• SCSB-9464269

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library