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Título: | Urban deforestation and urban development |
Autor: | Cunha-e-Sá, Maria A. Fernandes Franco, Sofia Rosa, Renato |
Palavras-chave: | Deforestation Urban development Forest management practices Anti-sprawl policies Yield taxes |
Data: | Jan-2011 |
Editora: | Nova SBE |
Relatório da Série N.º: | Nova School of Business and Economics Working Paper Series;559 |
Resumo: | This paper has developed a model of a single forest owner operating with perfect foresight in a dynamic open-city environment that allows for switching between alternative competing land uses (forest and urban use) at some point in the future. The model also incorporates external values of an even-aged standing forest in addition to the value of timber when it is harvested. Timber is exploited based on a multiple rotation model a la Faustmann with clear-cut harvesting. In contrast to previous models, our alternative land use to forest land is endogenous. Within this framework, we study the problem of the private owner as well as that of the social planner, when choosing the time to harvest, the time to convert land and the intensity of development. We also examine the extent to which the two-way linkage between urban development and forest management practices (timber production and provision of forest amenities) contributes to economic efficiency and improvements in non-market forest benefits. Finally, we consider policy options available to a regulator seeking to achieve improvements in efficiency including anti-sprawl policies (impact fees and density controls) and forest policies such a yield tax. Numerical simulations illustrate our analytical results. |
Peer review: | no |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10362/11151 |
Aparece nas colecções: | NSBE: Nova SBE - Working Papers |
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