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Can payments solve the problem of undersupply of ecosystem services ? / Nicolas Robert in Forest policy and economics, vol 35 (October 2013)  

Public [article]  inForest policy and economics > vol 35 (October 2013) . - pp 83 - 91 Titre : Can payments solve the problem of undersupply of ecosystem services ? Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Nicolas Robert , Auteur ; Anne Stenger, Auteur Année de publication : 2013 Conférence : International Conference 2012 on the New Frontiers of Forest Economics 26/06/2012 30/06/2012 Zurich Suisse Proceedings Elsevier Article en page(s) : pp 83 - 91 Note générale : Bibliographie This work was partially funded by the project Forgeco cofunded by the French National Research Agency, project No. ANR-09-STRA-02-01, which aims to propose new tools for the sustainable management of forest ecosystems at the landscape scale. This work was partially done during the European Collaborative Project NEWFOREX (New Ways to Value and Market Forest Externalities, Project no. 243950), a Small or medium scale focused research project of the European Framework Programme 7 (FP7-KBBE 2009-3). Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] service écosystémique [Vedettes matières IGN] Economie forestière Résumé : (Auteur) Profits from forest management generally originate from harvested wood products or hunting leases. Other joint services such as biodiversity protection or landscape beauty are rarely paid for and are insufficiently provided. Payment schemes are designed to reduce this undersupply. In this paper, we analyze how paying for the additional provision of some services might affect the production of joint services. Payments should at least compensate for the loss of revenue resulting from providing more services. These opportunity costs can be estimated using a production possibility frontier in which the maximum profit from currently marketed outputs is a function of the externalities. We show that payment for a single service can threaten other services if there are diseconomies of scope. If at least two services are considered, then payments can either be made independently for each of them (stacking) or simultaneously in a bundle. In the case of bundling, the minimum payment amount corresponds the total opportunity cost whatever the interactions between services. In the case of stacking, if there are diseconomies of scope and if the amount paid for increasing each service equals the individual opportunity cost, then the total payment would not compensate for the total cost. Some services might remain undersupplied. On the contrary, if there are economies of scope then the total stacked amount will be greater than the total opportunity cost. Hence, it is critical to analyze interactions between ecosystem services because they are likely to change the profitability or the opportunity costs related to increasing the production of the ecosystem services and so the schemes of payments. Numéro de notice : A2013-836 Affiliation des auteurs : IGN+Ext (2012-2019) Thématique : FORET Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1016/j.forpol.2013.06.012 Date de publication en ligne : 19/07/2013 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2013.06.012 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=91288 [article]

New frontiers of forest economics / Shashi Kant in Forest policy and economics, vol 35 (October 2013)  

Public [article]  inForest policy and economics > vol 35 (October 2013) . - pp 1 - 8 Titre : New frontiers of forest economics Type de document : Article/Communication Auteurs : Shashi Kant, Auteur ; Sen Wang, Auteur ; Peter Deegen, Auteur ; Martin Hostettler, Auteur ; Roderich von Detten, Auteur ; Theodore Howard, Auteur ; David Laband, Auteur ; Claire Montgomery, Auteur ; Nicolas Robert , Auteur ; Walter Sekot, Auteur ; Grégory Valatin, Auteur ; Daowei Zhang, Auteur Année de publication : 2013 Conférence : International Conference 2012 on the New Frontiers of Forest Economics 26/06/2012 30/06/2012 Zurich Suisse Proceedings Elsevier Article en page(s) : pp 1 - 8 Note générale : Bibliographie Langues : Anglais (eng) Descripteur : [Termes IGN] intégration [Termes IGN] modélisation [Vedettes matières IGN] Economie forestière Résumé : (Auteur) This special issue of Forest Policy and Economics is based on the papers presented and discussions held at the International Conference on the New Frontiers of Forest Economics, June 26–30, 2012 held at ETH, Zurich, Switzerland. This paper discusses the need of new frontiers of forest economics, provides an overview of the special issue, and presents thoughts about new frontiers. The paper suggests that all knowledge of forest economists is conjectural, and without the competition of contradictorily theories forest economics sinks into intellectual poverty. The progress of forest economics will need a never ending fabrication on new and venturous theories for solving problems and strong attempts to refute, to critically assess and discuss, and to test empirically the new theories. The paper discusses three areas for new frontiers of forest economics — integration of sciences using multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches, incorporation and integration of various streams of economics, and answering the unanswered questions by developing new models and methods. Numéro de notice : A2013-837 Affiliation des auteurs : IGN+Ext (2012-2019) Thématique : FORET Nature : Article nature-HAL : ArtAvecCL-RevueIntern DOI : 10.1016/j.forpol.2013.06.002 Date de publication en ligne : 04/07/2013 En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2013.06.002 Format de la ressource électronique : URL article Permalink : https://documentation.ensg.eu/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=91289 [article]