Resource and Market Projections for Forest Policy Development Twenty-five Years of Experience with the US RPA Timber Assessment - Adams, Darius M.; Haynes, Richard W.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2007)
Timber Assessments Supporting the Development of National Forestry Programs and Policy -- The Challenge of Developing Models to Support Forest Sector Policy Analysis -- Methodological Considerations in Developing the Timber Assessment Projection System -- Model Components -- Solid Wood-Timber Assessment Market Model (TAMM) -- North American Pulp & Paper Model (NAPAP) -- Methods for Projecting Areas of Private Timberland and Forest Cover Types -- Timber Inventory and Management-ATLAS -- Exogenous Assumptions-Framing the Base Case and Scenarios -- Model Solution, Validation, and Control -- Projections and Scenarios -- Base Case Projection -- Evolving Views of the Future of the US Forest Sector -- The Impact of Public Harvest in the USA on North American Timber and Product Markets -- The Role of Private Management Investment in Long-Term Supply -- Globalization and World Trade -- The Impacts of Climate Change on Forestry -- Projecting Technological Change -- Long-Term Views of the US Land Base -- Lessons Learned from 25 Years of Forest Sector Modeling -- The Utility of Forest Sector Models in Addressing Forest Policy Questions.
Keywords: Forestry; Environmental management; Business; Management science; Environmental law; Environmental policy; Forestry; Environmental Management; Business and Management, general; Environmental Law/Policy/Ecojustice.