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:	9780367008307
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/07/2019
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

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