The allowable cut effect as a policy instrument in Canadian forestry

1995 ◽  
Vol 25 (11) ◽  
pp. 1821-1829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin K. Luckert ◽  
David Haley
Keyword(s):  
Policy Instrument ◽  
Management Unit ◽  
Financial Returns ◽  
Timber Management ◽  
Industrial Activity ◽  
Private Investments ◽  
The Future ◽  
Forest Lands ◽  
Activity Costs ◽  
Crown Forest

The allowable cut effect, or ACE, is defined as an immediate increase in today's allowable cut of a timber management unit that is attributable to expected future increases in yields. In Canada, the ACE has been adopted by provincial governments in an attempt to encourage voluntary, private investments in silviculture on Crown forest lands. However, such policies have been generally ineffective. Potential reasons for their failure include the presence of other public silvicultural policies that crowd out private, ACE-motivated expenditures; rent (stumpage) collection provisions that do not allow tenure holders adequate financial returns on their investments; yield control provisions that do not impose significant constraints on industrial activity; costs of compliance with regulations to secure increased harvests; and the uncertainty surrounding the future of existing tenure arrangements.

Tenure effects on forest management investment

1987 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 284-293
Author(s):  
J. C. Nautiyal ◽  
J. K. Rawat
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Policy Instrument ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Intensive Forest Management ◽  
Intensive Forestry ◽  
Forest Lands ◽  
Crown Forest ◽  
Investment Behaviour

Study of the investment behaviour of a tenure-holding forestry firm in Canada has policy implications and is, therefore, important. Investment by a firm in establishing a plant was analyzed in an earlier issue (June 1986) of this journal. In this paper, the firm's investment in the management of Crown forest lands is investigated. The impacts of tenure conditions, taxation, and technological progress have been analyzed. Tenure insecurity has been found to be only partly responsible for a firm's less than enthusiastic behaviour regarding investment in forest management. Long rotation is by far the single most important factor inhibiting expenditure on forest management inputs. A judicious mixture of tenure and taxation regulations can be used as a policy instrument for encouraging intensive forest management. Anticipation of even very modest secular increases in profits due to technological progress can make intensive forestry a desirable economic activity.

Forecasting Research and Technoscience: Contemporary Status, Specifics and Prospects

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lyudmila Ivancheva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Policy Instrument ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Social Interests ◽  
The Future ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Contemporary Status

The article emphasizes the role of the advancement of modern science and new technologies in forecasting research as a key factor for making prognoses for the future. It presents the concept of technoscience, developed by the author, as a blend and symbiosis of modern science and technologies, converging on the basis of similar purposes, objects of treatment and outcomes, as well as of the rising engagement with social interests and attitudes. Furthermore, the main kinds of forecasting research with their specifics, advantages and limitations are outlined, pointing out the special role of building foresight scenarios for the future as a prognosis and policy instrument. The tendencies in this field of research are identified, revealing the challenges related to modern technoscience, and the possible solutions.

scholarly journals The Survival of the Welfare State

2003 ◽  
Vol 93 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Hassler ◽  
José V Rodríguez Mora ◽  
Kjetil Storesletten ◽  
Fabrizio Zilibotti
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
Multiple Equilibria ◽  
Redistributive Policies ◽  
Markov Perfect ◽  
Private Investments ◽  
The Future ◽  
Model Features ◽  
Perfect Equilibria ◽  
The Welfare State

This paper provides an analytical characterization of Markov perfect equilibria in a model with repeated voting, where agents vote over distortionary income redistribution. A key result is that the future constituency for redistributive policies depends positively on current redistribution, since this affects both private investments and the future distribution of voters. The model features multiple equilibria. In some equilibria, positive redistribution persists forever. In other equilibria, even a majority of beneficiaries of redistribution vote strategically so as to induce the end of the welfare state next period. Skill-biased technical change makes the survival of the welfare state less likely.

scholarly journals Cape clawless otter conservation and a trout river in Zimbabwe: a case study

Oryx ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 276-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Butler
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Activities ◽  
Financial Returns ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Conservation ◽  
The Future

A community-based conservation scheme on the upper catchment of the Kairezi River, eastern Zimbabwe, has been based on financial returns from trout fishing. Despite consistent stocking, trout catches have been declining, which undermines the justification for conservation. Fishery managers believed that Cape clawless otters Aonyx capensis preyed on trout and competed with them for food. An analysis of otter and trout diets in 1993 indicated that this was not the case and the otter was not the cause of the lack of trout. The future of the scheme and the conservation of otters in the catchment are more likely to be threatened by poaching and uncontrolled agricultural activities.

Productivity of Nonindustrial Private Forests in Western Washington: Alternative Futures

1995 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ralph J. Alig ◽  
Darius M. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Financial Returns ◽  
Timber Management ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Alternative Futures ◽  
Private Forests ◽  
Productive Potential ◽  
Western Washington ◽  
Forest Practice

Abstract Nonindustrial private timberlands in western Washington have high productive potential and contribute harvest amounts somewhat more than proportional to their area. Of all private ownerships they are influenced the most by land use shifts and are affected in important ways by forest practice regulations. About 1 million acres of nonindustrial private timberland contain opportunities for timber management intensification that would increase net growth, in many cases offering attractive financial returns. Significant increases in timber growing investments could double softwood harvest levels in the long term. A combination of forest practice regulations to lengthen rotations by 10 yr and a 15% setaside of other timberland with older timber could reduce short-term softwood harvest levels by one-third. West. J. Appl. For. 10(1):29-35.

scholarly journals The status of forest regeneration in Canada

1997 ◽  
Vol 73 (5) ◽  
pp. 586-589 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian Haddon
Keyword(s):  
Forest Inventory ◽  
Natural Regeneration ◽  
Forest Regeneration ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
The Status ◽  
Database Program ◽  
Forest Lands ◽  
Crown Forest

The regenerating land base of Crown forest lands harvested under even-aged forest management systems since 1975 was about 14 million ha in 1995. Most harvested areas are regenerating successfully. Natural regeneration plays a much bigger role in Canadian forestry than planting or seeding. The area of forest land that remains understocked after harvesting is shrinking. The data presented were provided through the REGEN component of the National Forestry Database Program by the provincial and territorial agencies responsible for the management of forest resources in their jurisdictions. Key words: forest inventory, forest regeneration, Canadian forests

scholarly journals An economic analysis of landowner propensity for woodlot management and harvesting in northwestern Saskatchewan

1995 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 451-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fiona J. Salkie ◽  
Martin K. Luckert ◽  
William E. Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Logit Analysis ◽  
Forest Economics ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Timber Management ◽  
Contract Term ◽  
The Past ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Processing ◽  
Young Growth

The recent development of new processing facilities in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan has created a long-term market for timber in the region. Although these processing facilities are currently supplied by crown timber reserves, increasing pressure on public forest resources from multiple users has caused processors to consider private woodlots as a supplemental source of fibre. A survey was undertaken to investigate conditions under which landowners may respond to the emerging demand by managing their timber resources for harvest and sale.Survey results indicate that, although virtually no management or harvesting has occurred in the past, approximately half of those interviewed would consider timber management and harvesting in the future. Logit analysis identified landowner characteristics that were related to landowners' willingness to consider forest management and harvest in the future and the likelihood that they would consider a timber contract. Significant characteristics of landowners in influencing the propensity to manage and harvest their woodlots included: the diversity of farm operations, the length of family tenure of the land, the number of ways respondents use their forest land, and area of forest owned. A preferred timber contract was identified as having: a duration of 1 to 5 years, young growth established at the end of the contract term, and payments for harvesting and management services made through a crop share arrangement. Key words: private forestry, forest economics, timber contracts, landowner characteristics, woodlot management

The Future of the Oil and Gas Industry in Venezuela in the Years to Come amidst a Challenging Environment of Economic Sanctions, World Recession, a Pandemic, and the Energy Transition

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-199
Author(s):  
Simon Herrera Celis ◽  
Jesús A. García-Arenas
Keyword(s):  
Oil And Gas ◽  
Energy Transition ◽  
Oil And Gas Industry ◽  
Energy Industry ◽  
Gas Industry ◽  
New Public ◽  
Private Investments ◽  
The Future ◽  
Challenging Environment ◽  
To Come

This essay concisely explains the complex condition of the Venezuelan oil and gas industry and its legal, political, and financial hurdles, exploring what has been the history and context in which the COVID-19 pandemic arrived. Building on a complicated global situation surrounded by the pandemic, it asks and gives answers to: What could be expected to recover an economy dependent on the energy industry, based on an evaluation of legislation in force, its impact on private investments and an appraisal of bills and restructuring projects. Arguments were divided into the current situation, national and international actions for restructuring the oil industry, and the future of the national oil company. The analysis suggests that great changes are necessary for the future of the Venezuelan energy industry with a new public policy agenda mainly driven by private investments, while the energy transition has already started. The conclusion indicates that it is mandatory to assume the recovery of the traditional hydrocarbons sector in Venezuela to point the industry in the transition to decarbonized energy sources, in a world that is struggling with COVID-19.

MANAGEMENT PLANS—THE PATH TO THE FUTURE

1962 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-33
Author(s):  
Murray B. Morison
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Management Unit ◽  
Management Units ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
The Future ◽  
Management Plans ◽  
New Procedures ◽  
Forestry Practice

The Department of Lands and Forests of the Province of Ontario, has completed one cycle in forest management planning and inventory compilation which was initiated in 1946.As a result of the experience gained since 1946 by the forestry staff, a nucleus of which has been working continually since the beginning of the original program, the Department now has what is believed to be a satisfactory revision which will obtain realistic management plans. These plans will have guiding objectives in line with good forestry practice and will also recognize the limitations imposed by social and economic conditions.In 1958, the Department commenced the re-inventory and is applying the new procedures to new photography, ground sampling and compilation. The revision of management plans is also proceeding as an integral part of the total program.This paper describes some of the factors involved in making decisions for management plans, it refers to the new inventory procedures, and highlights as an example, the plan for the Englehart Management Unit. Other Management units are briefly described to indicate some of the variations necessary in the application of plans to meet local conditions.

Back to the future: Sweatshop conditions on the Mexico-U.S. border. I. Community health impact of maquiladora industrial activity

1994 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 311-324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rafael Moure-Eraso ◽  
Meg Wilcox ◽  
Laura Punnett ◽  
Leslie Copeland ◽  
Charles Levenstein
Keyword(s):  
Community Health ◽  
Health Impact ◽  
Industrial Activity ◽  
The Future
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