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dc.contributor.authorMacpherson, Morag F.
dc.contributor.authorKleczkowski, Adam
dc.contributor.authorHealey, John R.
dc.contributor.authorHanley, Nick
dc.date.accessioned2017-01-23T09:30:11Z
dc.date.available2017-01-23T09:30:11Z
dc.date.issued2017-04
dc.identifier.citationMacpherson , M F , Kleczkowski , A , Healey , J R & Hanley , N 2017 , ' Payment for multiple forest benefits alters the effect of tree disease on optimal forest rotation length ' , Ecological Economics , vol. 134 , pp. 82-94 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.01.008en
dc.identifier.issn0921-8009
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 248984229
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: fb2ab396-520f-42f2-a3b9-2e70c7c07c01
dc.identifier.otherRIS: urn:A11E95F76AD77684931C8E1D9F5F0CB2
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85009865414
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000395219300010
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/10153
dc.descriptionThis work is from the project titled Modelling Economic Impact and Strategies to Increase Resilience Against Tree Disease Outbreaks, which is funded jointly by a grant from BBSRC, Defra, ESRC, the Forestry Commission, NERC and the Scottish Government, under the Tree Health and Plant Biosecurity Initiative.en
dc.description.abstractForests deliver multiple benefits both to their owners and to wider society. However, a wave of forest pests and pathogens is threatening this worldwide. In this paper we examine the effect of disease on the optimal rotation length of a single-aged, single rotation forest when a payment for non-timber benefits, which is offered to private forest owners to partly internalise the social values of forest management, is included. Using a generalisable bioeconomic framework we show how this payment counteracts the negative economic effect of disease by increasing the optimal rotation length, and under some restrictive conditions, even makes it optimal to never harvest the forest. The analysis shows a range of complex interactions between factors including the rate of spread of infection and the impact of disease on the value of harvested timber and non-timber benefits. A key result is that the effect of disease on the optimal rotation length is dependent on whether the disease affects the timber benefit only compared to when it affects both timber and non-timber benefits. Our framework can be extended to incorporate multiple ecosystem services delivered by forests and details of how disease can affect their production, thus facilitating a wide range of applications.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofEcological Economicsen
dc.rightsCrown Copyright © 2017 Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).en
dc.subjectPayment for ecosystem servicesen
dc.subjectPayment for environmental servicesen
dc.subjectForest ecosystem servicesen
dc.subjectGreen paymentsen
dc.subjectInvasive speciesen
dc.subjectPests and diseasesen
dc.subjectHartman modelen
dc.subjectBioeconomic modellingen
dc.subjectOptimal rotation lengthen
dc.subjectG Geography (General)en
dc.subjectSD Forestryen
dc.subjectHB Economic Theoryen
dc.subjectHD Industries. Land use. Laboren
dc.subjectT-NDASen
dc.subjectSDG 15 - Life on Landen
dc.subject.lccG1en
dc.subject.lccSDen
dc.subject.lccHBen
dc.subject.lccHDen
dc.titlePayment for multiple forest benefits alters the effect of tree disease on optimal forest rotation lengthen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Geography & Sustainable Developmenten
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.01.008
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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