Investments in Forestry: "Resources, Land Use, and Public Policy"

by Roger A. Sedjo (Editor)

Overview

Can forestry compete with manufacturing and agriculture for scarce capital or is investment in forestry attractive only when non-economic considerations--for example, the social desirability of forestry investments--are taken into account? Addressing this question, the contributors to this book assess the market for forestry products in the short- and long-term future; examine the competition between agriculture, cities, and forestry for use of land; identify strategies that private, industrial, and public investors might adopt; and look at the effects of government policies on private investors.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429711497
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	03/08/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	262
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Roger A. Sedjo, Resources for the Future, Washington D.C.

Table of Contents

Foreword -- Introduction -- Investments in Resources -- The Fifth Kondratieff Upswing and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Their Meaning for Forestry -- Rationale for Intensive Forestry Investment: A 1980s View -- The Transitory Nature of the Land Base -- The Economics of Shifting Land Use Margins -- Changes in the Urban Land Base and the Consequences for the Future of Forestry -- Regional Changes in U.S. Commercial Forest Land -- Strategies of Investment -- Continuing Investments in Forestry: Private Investment Strategies -- Problems of Public Investment in Forestry -- Effects of Public Policy -- Effects of Public Policy on Forestry Investments