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Jeffrey R. Vincent

Jeffrey R. Vincent

Korstian Distinguished Professor in Forest Economics and Management in the Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences
Environmental Sciences and Policy
jeff.vincent@duke.edu
Box 90328, Durham, NC 27708-0328
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Selected Publications

Cost-effectiveness of natural forest regeneration and plantations for climate mitigation

Journal Article Nature Climate Change · September 1, 2024 Mitigating climate change cost-effectively requires identifying least-cost-per-ton GHG abatement methods. Here, we estimate and map GHG abatement cost (US$ per tCO2) for two common reforestation methods: natural regeneration and plantations. We do so by pr ... Full text Cite

Bringing the forest back: Restoration priorities in Colombia

Journal Article Diversity and Distributions · April 1, 2024 Aim: Colombia has committed to ambitious forest restoration targets which include a 1 million ha Bonn Challenge commitment and 6.47–8.31 million ha (rehabilitation and restoration, respectively) under the National Restoration Plan. Determining where and ho ... Full text Cite

Abandoned land: Overestimated potential.

Journal Article Science (New York, N.Y.) · July 2023 Full text Cite

Response diversity as a sustainability strategy

Journal Article Nature Sustainability · June 1, 2023 Financial advisers recommend a diverse portfolio to respond to market fluctuations across sectors. Similarly, nature has evolved a diverse portfolio of species to maintain ecosystem function amid environmental fluctuations. In urban planning, public health ... Full text Cite

Inferring Economic Impacts from a Program's Physical Outcomes: An Application to Forest Protection in Thailand.

Journal Article Environmental & resource economics · January 2023 Economists typically estimate the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) when evaluating government programs. The economic interpretation of the ATT can be ambiguous when program outcomes are measured in purely physical terms, as they often are in e ... Full text Cite

Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics

Journal Article Global Environmental Change · September 1, 2022 Restoring tree cover in tropical countries has the potential to benefit millions of smallholders through improvements in income and environmental services. However, despite their dominant landholding shares in many countries, smallholders’ role in restorat ... Full text Cite

Redefining “abandoned” agricultural land in the context of reforestation

Journal Article Frontiers in Forests and Global Change · August 22, 2022 Global mapping efforts to date have relied on vague and oversimplified definitions of “abandoned” agricultural land which results in overestimates of the land area that is likely to support persistent increases in forest cover and associated carbon sequest ... Full text Cite

Forest Restoration in Low- And Middle-Income Countries

Book · January 1, 2021 A series of international initiatives have set ambitious goals for restoring global forests. This review synthesizes natural and social science research on forest restoration (FR), with a focus on restoration on cleared land in low- and middle-income count ... Full text Cite

Is the Distribution of Ecosystem Service Benefits Pro-Poor? Evidence from Water Purification by Forests in Thailand

Journal Article Water Economics and Policy · July 1, 2020 Forests are widely believed to provide a water purification service that reduces the cost of treating drinking water, but few empirical economic studies have investigated this service in developing countries, where deforestation rates and thus threats to t ... Full text Cite

Water pollution abatement in Malaysia

Chapter · September 20, 2017 Cite

Ecosystem change and human health: implementation economics and policy.

Journal Article Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · June 2017 Several recent initiatives such as Planetary Health, EcoHealth and One Health claim that human health depends on flourishing natural ecosystems. However, little has been said about the operational and implementation challenges of health-oriented conservati ... Full text Open Access Cite

Conservation, biodiversity and infectious disease: scientific evidence and policy implications.

Journal Article Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · June 2017 Full text Cite

Using the Delphi method to value protection of the Amazon rainforest

Journal Article Ecological Economics · January 1, 2017 Valuing global environmental public goods can serve to mobilize international resources for their protection. While stated-preference valuation methods have been applied extensively to public goods valuation in individual countries, applications to global ... Full text Cite

Valuing Water Purification by Forests: An Analysis of Malaysian Panel Data

Journal Article Environmental and Resource Economics · May 1, 2016 Water purification might be the most frequently invoked example of an economically valuable ecosystem service, yet the impacts of upstream land use on downstream municipal water treatment costs remain poorly understood. This is especially true in developin ... Full text Cite

Impact Evaluation of Forest Conservation Programs: Benefit-Cost Analysis, Without the Economics

Journal Article Environmental and Resource Economics · February 1, 2016 Economists are increasingly using impact evaluation methods to measure the effectiveness of forest conservation programs. Theoretical analysis of two complementary economic models demonstrates that the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) typicall ... Full text Cite

Cost-effectiveness of natural forest regeneration and plantations for climate mitigation

Journal Article Nature Climate Change · September 1, 2024 Mitigating climate change cost-effectively requires identifying least-cost-per-ton GHG abatement methods. Here, we estimate and map GHG abatement cost (US$ per tCO2) for two common reforestation methods: natural regeneration and plantations. We do so by pr ... Full text Cite

Bringing the forest back: Restoration priorities in Colombia

Journal Article Diversity and Distributions · April 1, 2024 Aim: Colombia has committed to ambitious forest restoration targets which include a 1 million ha Bonn Challenge commitment and 6.47–8.31 million ha (rehabilitation and restoration, respectively) under the National Restoration Plan. Determining where and ho ... Full text Cite

Abandoned land: Overestimated potential.

Journal Article Science (New York, N.Y.) · July 2023 Full text Cite

Response diversity as a sustainability strategy

Journal Article Nature Sustainability · June 1, 2023 Financial advisers recommend a diverse portfolio to respond to market fluctuations across sectors. Similarly, nature has evolved a diverse portfolio of species to maintain ecosystem function amid environmental fluctuations. In urban planning, public health ... Full text Cite

Inferring Economic Impacts from a Program's Physical Outcomes: An Application to Forest Protection in Thailand.

Journal Article Environmental & resource economics · January 2023 Economists typically estimate the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) when evaluating government programs. The economic interpretation of the ATT can be ambiguous when program outcomes are measured in purely physical terms, as they often are in e ... Full text Cite

Scaling smallholder tree cover restoration across the tropics

Journal Article Global Environmental Change · September 1, 2022 Restoring tree cover in tropical countries has the potential to benefit millions of smallholders through improvements in income and environmental services. However, despite their dominant landholding shares in many countries, smallholders’ role in restorat ... Full text Cite

Redefining “abandoned” agricultural land in the context of reforestation

Journal Article Frontiers in Forests and Global Change · August 22, 2022 Global mapping efforts to date have relied on vague and oversimplified definitions of “abandoned” agricultural land which results in overestimates of the land area that is likely to support persistent increases in forest cover and associated carbon sequest ... Full text Cite

Forest Restoration in Low- And Middle-Income Countries

Book · January 1, 2021 A series of international initiatives have set ambitious goals for restoring global forests. This review synthesizes natural and social science research on forest restoration (FR), with a focus on restoration on cleared land in low- and middle-income count ... Full text Cite

Is the Distribution of Ecosystem Service Benefits Pro-Poor? Evidence from Water Purification by Forests in Thailand

Journal Article Water Economics and Policy · July 1, 2020 Forests are widely believed to provide a water purification service that reduces the cost of treating drinking water, but few empirical economic studies have investigated this service in developing countries, where deforestation rates and thus threats to t ... Full text Cite

Water pollution abatement in Malaysia

Chapter · September 20, 2017 Cite

Ecosystem change and human health: implementation economics and policy.

Journal Article Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · June 2017 Several recent initiatives such as Planetary Health, EcoHealth and One Health claim that human health depends on flourishing natural ecosystems. However, little has been said about the operational and implementation challenges of health-oriented conservati ... Full text Open Access Cite

Conservation, biodiversity and infectious disease: scientific evidence and policy implications.

Journal Article Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · June 2017 Full text Cite

Using the Delphi method to value protection of the Amazon rainforest

Journal Article Ecological Economics · January 1, 2017 Valuing global environmental public goods can serve to mobilize international resources for their protection. While stated-preference valuation methods have been applied extensively to public goods valuation in individual countries, applications to global ... Full text Cite

Valuing Water Purification by Forests: An Analysis of Malaysian Panel Data

Journal Article Environmental and Resource Economics · May 1, 2016 Water purification might be the most frequently invoked example of an economically valuable ecosystem service, yet the impacts of upstream land use on downstream municipal water treatment costs remain poorly understood. This is especially true in developin ... Full text Cite

Impact Evaluation of Forest Conservation Programs: Benefit-Cost Analysis, Without the Economics

Journal Article Environmental and Resource Economics · February 1, 2016 Economists are increasingly using impact evaluation methods to measure the effectiveness of forest conservation programs. Theoretical analysis of two complementary economic models demonstrates that the average treatment effect on the treated (ATT) typicall ... Full text Cite

Econometric Evidence on Forest Ecosystem Services: Deforestation and Flooding in Malaysia

Journal Article Environmental and Resource Economics · January 1, 2016 Governments around the world are increasingly invoking hydrological services, such as flood mitigation and water purification, as a justification for forest conservation programs in upstream areas. Yet, rigorous empirical evidence that these programs are a ... Full text Cite

Avoided deforestation: Not a good measure of conservation impact

Journal Article Journal of Tropical Forest Science · January 1, 2016 Cite

Incorporating local visitor valuation information into the design of new recreation sites in tropical forests

Journal Article Ecological Economics · December 1, 2015 In rapidly industrializing countries, decisions need to be made as to what characteristics new tropical forest parks in or near urban areas should have. Using a discrete choice experiment, we estimate prospective visitors' willingness-to-pay for a range of ... Full text Cite

Essential surgery: key messages from Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition.

Journal Article Lancet (London, England) · May 2015 The World Bank will publish the nine volumes of Disease Control Priorities, 3rd edition, in 2015-16. Volume 1--Essential Surgery--identifies 44 surgical procedures as essential on the basis that they address substantial needs, are cost effective, and are f ... Full text Cite

Global economic consequences of selected surgical diseases: a modelling study.

Journal Article The Lancet. Global health · April 2015 BackgroundThe surgical burden of disease is substantial, but little is known about the associated economic consequences. We estimate the global macroeconomic impact of the surgical burden of disease due to injury, neoplasm, digestive diseases, and ... Full text Cite

Creation of Malaysia’s Royal Belum State Park: A Case Study of Conservation in a Developing Country

Journal Article Journal of Environment and Development · March 13, 2015 The incentives for resource extraction and development make the conservation of biodiversity challenging within tropical forestlands. The 2007 establishment of the Royal Belum State Park in the Malaysian state of Perak offers lessons for creating protected ... Full text Cite

Designing and implementing surveys to value tropical forests

Journal Article Journal of Tropical Forest Science · January 1, 2015 This paper describes a household survey that was used to collect data for valuing protection and recreational use of tropical rainforests in Peninsular Malaysia. The survey was developed and implemented from 2007 till 2010 and was the largest environmental ... Cite

Reconciling oil palm expansion and climate change mitigation in Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Journal Article PloS one · January 2015 Our society faces the pressing challenge of increasing agricultural production while minimizing negative consequences on ecosystems and the global climate. Indonesia, which has pledged to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from deforestation while doubl ... Full text Open Access Cite

Tropical countries may be willing to pay more to protect their forests.

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · July 2014 Inadequate funding from developed countries has hampered international efforts to conserve biodiversity in tropical forests. We present two complementary research approaches that reveal a significant increase in public demand for conservation within tropic ... Full text Cite

EDE: Job well done, but job not yet done

Journal Article Environment and Development Economics · January 1, 2014 Full text Cite

Does development reduce fatalities from natural disasters? New evidence for floods

Journal Article Environment and Development Economics · December 1, 2013 We analyze the impact of development on flood fatalities using a new data set of 2,171 large floods in 92 countries between 1985 and 2008. Our results challenge the conventional wisdom that development results in fewer fatalities during natural disasters. ... Full text Cite

Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: Modeling and policy implications

Journal Article Environment and Development Economics · April 1, 2013 Systems linking people and nature, known as social-ecological systems, are increasingly understood as complex adaptive systems. Essential features of these complex adaptive systems - such as nonlinear feedbacks, strategic interactions, individual and spati ... Full text Cite

The clinical and economic impact of a sustained program in global plastic surgery: valuing cleft care in resource-poor settings.

Journal Article Plastic and reconstructive surgery · July 2012 BackgroundThe development of surgery in low- and middle-income countries has been limited by a belief that it is too expensive to be sustainable. However, subspecialist surgical care can provide substantial clinical and economic benefits in low-re ... Full text Cite

Unobserved time effects confound the identification of climate change impacts.

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · July 2012 A recent study by Feng et al. [Feng S, Krueger A, Oppenheimer M (2010) Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 107:14257-14262] in PNAS reported statistical evidence of a weather-driven causal effect of crop yields on human migration from Mexico to the United States. We sh ... Full text Cite

Climate change, the monsoon, and rice yield in India

Journal Article Climatic Change · March 1, 2012 Recent research indicates that monsoon rainfall became less frequent but more intense in India during the latter half of the Twentieth Century, thus increasing the risk of drought and flood damage to the country's wet-season (kharif) rice crop. Our statist ... Full text Cite

Obstructed labor and caesarean delivery: the cost and benefit of surgical intervention.

Journal Article PloS one · January 2012 BackgroundAlthough advances in the reduction of maternal mortality have been made, up to 273,000 women will die this year from obstetric etiologies. Obstructed labor (OL), most commonly treated with Caesarean delivery, has been identified as a maj ... Full text Cite

General resilience to cope with extreme events

Journal Article Sustainability · January 1, 2012 Resilience to specified kinds of disasters is an active area of research and practice. However, rare or unprecedented disturbances that are unusually intense or extensive require a more broad-spectrum type of resilience. General resilience is the capacity ... Full text Cite

Costs and benefits of neurosurgical intervention for infant hydrocephalus in sub-Saharan Africa.

Journal Article Journal of neurosurgery. Pediatrics · November 2011 ObjectEvidence from the CURE Children's Hospital of Uganda (CCHU) suggests that treatment for hydrocephalus in infants can be effective and sustainable in a developing country. This model has not been broadly supported or implemented due in part t ... Full text Cite

Potential economic benefit of cleft lip and palate repair in sub-Saharan Africa.

Journal Article World journal of surgery · June 2011 BackgroundAcceptance of basic surgical care as an essential element of any properly functioning health system is growing. To justify investment in surgical interventions, donors require estimates of the economic benefit of treating surgical diseas ... Full text Cite

Microeconomic analysis of innovative environmental programs in developing countries

Journal Article Review of Environmental Economics and Policy · August 7, 2010 Environmental management programs that attempt to cope with institutional weaknesses in developing countries by being less reliant on governments' formal regulatory apparatus are becoming increasingly common. Three leading examples of such innovative progr ... Full text Cite

Governance and Timber Harvests

Journal Article Environmental and Resource Economics · January 1, 2010 Resource economics theory implies that risks associated with weak governance have an ambiguous impact on extraction, with the net impact depending on the relative strengths of depletion and investment effects. Previous empirical studies have found that imp ... Full text Cite

Reply to Baird et al.: Mangroves and storm protection: Getting the numbers right

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · October 6, 2009 Full text Cite

Environment. Looming global-scale failures and missing institutions.

Journal Article Science (New York, N.Y.) · September 2009 Full text Cite

Mangroves protected villages and reduced death toll during Indian super cyclone.

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · May 2009 Protection against coastal disasters has been identified as an important service of mangrove ecosystems. Empirical studies on this service have been criticized, however, for using small samples and inadequately controlling for confounding factors. We used ... Full text Cite

Valuing the environment as a production input

Chapter · January 1, 2009 Most research on the value of changes in environmental quality focuses on values from the standpoint of individual consumers. Three valuation methods dominate this research - contingent valuation, hedonic pricing, and travel cost models. These are sometime ... Full text Cite

Forests in the developing world: Is the glass half full or half empty?

Journal Article Journal of Tropical Forest Science · January 1, 2009 Cite

Comprehensive wealth and future consumption: Accounting for population growth

Journal Article World Bank Economic Review · July 17, 2008 Economic theory predicts that the current change in national wealth, broadly defined to include natural and human capital as well as produced capital ("genuine savings"), determines whether the present value of future changes in consumption is positive or ... Full text Cite

Harvest and extinction in multi-species ecosystems

Journal Article Ecological Economics · April 1, 2008 A potential cost of harvesting in multi-species ecosystems is the extinction of nonharvested species that are at the same trophic level as the harvested species. Existing analytical models are not well-suited for studying this harvest externality because t ... Full text Cite

Spatial distribution of species populations, relative economic values, and the optimal size and number of reserves

Journal Article Environmental and Resource Economics · February 1, 2008 We examine the tradeoff between the number and average size of nature reserves. When the costs of enforcing reserve boundaries are negligible, we find analytically that the relative price of biodiversity has a positive impact on the optimal total reserved ... Full text Cite

Area fees and logging in tropical timber concessions

Journal Article Environment and Development Economics · August 1, 2007 Area fees have become an increasingly important component of forest revenue systems in tropical developing countries. They are commonly viewed as having a neutral impact on decisions by timber concessionaires. This view is incorrect. Using both theoretical ... Full text Cite

Spatial dynamics, social norms, and the opportunity of the commons

Journal Article Ecological Research · January 1, 2007 The most important message of Levin (Ecol Res 21:328-333, 2006) is that "Ecologists and economists have much incentive for interaction." Recent studies that account for evolutionary processes and local interactions support this view by obtaining results th ... Full text Cite

Integrated model shows that atmospheric brown clouds and greenhouse gases have reduced rice harvests in India.

Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · December 2006 Previous studies have found that atmospheric brown clouds partially offset the warming effects of greenhouse gases. This finding suggests a tradeoff between the impacts of reducing emissions of aerosols and greenhouse gases. Results from a statistical mode ... Full text Cite

Quick fixes for the environment: Part of the solution or part of the problem?

Journal Article Environment · December 1, 2006 When faced with large-scale environmental problems that need immediate attention-such as flooding or collapsing fish stocks-society has tended to address the symptoms rather than fundamental solutions. Can we continue to go for the quick fixes? ... Full text Cite

Handbook of Environmental Economics Economywide and International Environmental Issues

Book · December 9, 2005 This is also where some of the most of challenging environmental policy issues occur. ... Cite

Preface to the Handbook

Journal Article Handbook of Environmental Economics · December 1, 2005 Full text Cite

Managing natural wealth: Environment and development in Malaysia

Journal Article Managing Natural Wealth: Environment and Development in Malaysia · June 20, 2005 The remarkably rich natural environment of Malaysia attracts the interest of both industry and the environmental community. Managing Natural Wealth analyzes major natural resource and environmental policy issues in the country during the 1970s and 1980s-a ... Full text Cite

Genuine savings: Leading indicator of sustainable development?

Journal Article Economic Development and Cultural Change · April 1, 2005 Interest in the relationships among national income, wealth, and welfare has revived in recent years, driven in large part by concern about the long-run consequences of natural resource depletion and environmental degradation. A fundamental result in this ... Full text Cite

Managing Natural Wealth Environment and Development in Malaysia

Book · 2005 “Loggers fined RM24m.” New Straits Times. January 29. Krutilla, J.V. 1991. “ Environmental resource services of Malaysian moist tropical forests.” Mimeo. Kumar, R. 1986. The Forest Resources of Malaysia: Their Economics and Development. ... Cite

The cost of HIV/AIDS to businesses in southern Africa.

Journal Article AIDS (London, England) · January 2004 BackgroundInformation on the potential costs of HIV/AIDS to the private sector is needed if companies are to be given a financial incentive to invest in prevention and treatment interventions.ObjectivesTo estimate the cost of HIV/AIDS to ... Full text Cite

Preface to the handbook

Journal Article Handbook of Environmental Economics · December 1, 2003 Full text Cite

AIDS is your business.

Journal Article Harvard business review · February 2003 If your company operates in a developing country, AIDS is your business. While Africa has received the most attention, AIDS is also spreading swiftly in other parts of the world. Russia and Ukraine had the fastest-growing epidemics last year, and many expe ... Cite

Handbook of Environmental Economics: Valuing environmental changes

Book · 2003 In: Dixon, J.A., Hufschmidt, J.A. (Eds.), Economic Valuation Techniques for the Environment: A Case Study Workbook. ... In: J.R. Vincent, E.W. Crawford, J.P. Hoehn, (Eds.), Valuing Environmental Benefits in Developing Countries, Special  ... ... Cite

Nonconvexities in the production of timber, biodiversity, and carbon sequestration

Journal Article Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · January 1, 2003 Fixed logging costs and administrative constraints on logging regulations can create nonconvexities in forestry production sets that include timber and nontimber products. Managing forests to produce multiple values at a landscape level, through the aggreg ... Full text Cite

Public environmental expenditures in Indonesia

Journal Article Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies · May 4, 2002 The economic justification for public expenditure is especially strong in the case of environmental management. Yet expenditures on environmental management have received little attention in public expenditure reviews by the World Bank and other internatio ... Full text Cite

Timber booms and institutional breakdown in Southeast Asia

Journal Article Journal of Environment and Development · January 1, 2002 Full text Cite

How important is improved water infrastructure to microenterprises? Evidence from Uganda

Journal Article World Development · October 17, 2001 Despite the proliferation of micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), most have difficulty surviving, let alone expanding their operations. Using empirical evidence from two Ugandan towns we explore the impact of investments in water ... Full text Cite

Green accounting: From theory to practice

Journal Article Environment and Development Economics · January 1, 2000 A decade has passed since Wasting Assets, a study of Indonesia by Robert Repetto and colleagues at the World Resources Institute, drew widespread attention to the potential divergence between gross and net measures of national income. This was by no means ... Full text Cite

Promoting better logging practices in tropical forests: A simulation analysis of alternative regulations

Journal Article Land Economics · January 1, 2000 Standard recommendations for improving logging practices in tropical forests include lengthening concession agreements, making concessions renewable, and requiring concessionaires to deposit performance bonds. In this paper we investigate the likely effect ... Full text Cite

Care and treatment to extend the working lives of HIV-positive employees: Calculating the benefits to business

Journal Article South African Journal of Science · January 1, 2000 Although HIV infection rates in South Africa have been high and rising for nearly a decade, the epidemic of HIV/AIDS-related morbidity and mortality is just beginning. As South African adults start to sicken and die, concern is mounting about the potential ... Cite

A framework for forest accounting

Journal Article Forest Science · November 1, 1999 Many recent empirical studies have proposed a variety of forest-related adjustments to the national income accounts. The complexity of forest-economy interactions makes such adjustments prone to double-counting and other problems if they are not guided by ... Cite

The economics of air pollution health risks in Russia: A case study of Volgograd

Journal Article World Development · October 1, 1999 A combined health risk assessment, cost-effectiveness analysis, and benefit-cost analysis is undertaken for direct particulate emissions from 29 stationary source polluters in the city of Volgograd, Russia. Annual particulate-related mortality risks from t ... Full text Cite

Net accumulation of timber resources

Journal Article Review of Income and Wealth · January 1, 1999 National accounting issues related to forest resources have attracted much attention recently. The net-depletion method, the most popular method for estimating aggregate changes in the value of timber stocks, tends to overstate both the depreciation of mat ... Full text Cite

Deforestation and forest land use: A comment

Journal Article World Bank Research Observer · January 1, 1998 Hyde, Amacher, and Magrath (1996) imply that deforestation and timber rents (logging revenue minus logging costs other than timber fees) are not subjects that justify policymakers' attention, arguing that market responses limit the scope of deforestation a ... Full text Cite

Finance for Sustainable Development The Road Ahead : Proceedings of the Fourth Group Meeting on Financial Issues of Agenda 21, Santiago Chile, 1997

Book · January 1, 1997 Through its extensive research & policy analysis, this book provides guidance to policy makers in government & the private sector on how to finance sustainable development. ... Cite

Testing for environmental Kuznets curves within a developing country

Journal Article Environment and Development Economics · January 1, 1997 Previous studies of the association between pollution and income have tended to analyse cross-sectional or panel data for a sample of developing and developed countries. This paper presents an analysis for a single country, Malaysia. This south-east Asian ... Full text Cite

Resource depletion and sustainability in small open economies

Journal Article Journal of Environmental Economics and Management · January 1, 1997 Exogenous price changes affect the amount that a small country exporting natural resource commodities must invest to sustain its consumption level. The necessary amount is given by the difference between Hotelling rent and the discounted sum of future term ... Full text Cite

Resource depletion and economic sustainability in Malaysia

Journal Article Environment and Development Economics · January 1, 1997 Countries richly endowed with natural resources have, on average, developed less rapidly than countries that are poor in natural resources. One possible explanation for this phenomenon is that the level of investment in reproducible capital has been insuff ... Full text Cite

Consumption: Challenge to sustainable development

Journal Article Science · January 1, 1997 Full text Cite

...Or distraction?

Journal Article Science · January 1, 1997 Full text Cite

Markets for non-timber forest products in the vicinity of Pasoh Forest Reserve, Malaysia: preliminary survey results

Journal Article Journal of Tropical Forest Science · January 1, 1994 A preliminary survey of markets around Pasoh Forest Reserve was conducted to collect data on sales of non-timber forest products (NTFP). Eight types of markets were identified in 40 rural and two urban communities. At the time of the study (October-Decembe ... Cite

Managing Tropical Forests: Comment

Journal Article Land Economics · August 1993 Full text Cite

Depletion and degradation are not the same

Journal Article Journal of Forestry · 1993 Cite

Demand for sawnwood of well-known and lesser known species in Peninsular Malaysia

Journal Article Journal of Tropical Forest Science · 1993 Cite

Efficient multiple-use forestry may require land-use specialization

Journal Article Land Economics · January 1, 1993 Considered at the landscape scale, economically efficient multiple use of forests may require land-use specialization. If managers attempt to satisfy legitimate multiple-use demands from society by managing all lands for all outputs, both commodity and ame ... Full text Cite

The tropical timber trade and sustainable development

Journal Article Science · June 19, 1992 The tropical timber trade appears to have promoted neither sustained forest management nor sustained forest-based industrialization. The boom-and-bust export pattern is often blamed on demand by developed countries, high import barriers, and low internatio ... Full text Cite

United States demand for Indonesian plywood

Journal Article Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies · 1992 Indonesia's exports of plywood are the largest in the world and a leading source of foreign exchange earnings. Although the industry's growth has been rapid, several studies indicate that it has been subsidised both directly and indirectly. What are the pr ... Cite

Substitution between tropical and temperate sawlogs

Journal Article Forest Science · 1991 Cite

Rent capture and the feasibility of tropical forest management

Journal Article Land Economics · January 1, 1990 This paper analyzes how the inefficiency of tropical timber royalty systems affects the feasibility of tropical forest management. It argues that distorted price signals from inefficient royalty systems give an unduly negative indication of the potential f ... Full text Cite

Species substitution and tropical log imports by Japan

Journal Article Forest Science · January 1, 1990 Tropical rainforests contain many "lesser known species' that have not achieved widespread acceptance in international timber markets. This paper provides a quantitative analysis of the effects on tropical log demand of two economic factors: relative price ... Cite

Optimal tariffs on intermediate and final goods: the case of tropical forest products

Journal Article Forest Science · January 1, 1989 Products made from tropical timber are subject to a variety of tariff and nontariff barriers. This paper considers the potential welfare gains from the imposition of optimal tariffs on these products. Optimal tariffs and associated welfare gains are determ ... Cite

Timber prices in the U.S. South: past trends and outlook for the future

Journal Article Southern Journal of Applied Forestry · January 1, 1988 Prior to World War II, prices of southern pine stumpage rose at a real rate of 4.6%/yr, and since that time they have risen at a real rate of 3.1%/yr. Prices for timber sold from private lands have apparently risen more rapidly than have prices for public ... Full text Cite

Malaysia: key player in international trade

Journal Article Journal of Forestry · January 1, 1988 Concentrates on Malaysia's current position as an exporter of forest products. Two main points are made. First, Malaysia is best regarded as three separate nations from the standpoint of forest products trade. Second, while Malaysia will remain an importan ... Cite

Natural management of tropical moist forests: silvicultural and management of sustained utilization.

Journal Article · December 1, 1987 In the keynote address on problems and prospects for natural management of tropical moist forests, J. WYATT-SMITH discusses data availability, forests rights, illegal clearing, extraction damage, training, management, market demand for timber, and conserva ... Cite

Natural management of tropical moist forests: silvicultural and management of sustained utilization.

Journal Article · January 1, 1987 In the keynote address on problems and prospects for natural management of tropical moist forests, J. WYATT-SMITH discusses data availability, forests rights, illegal clearing, extraction damage, training, management, market demand for timber, and conserva ... Cite

Growth of the forest products industry in Malaysia: 1961-85

Journal Article Malaysian Forester · 1986 Cite

Anatomy of the palm Rhapis excelsa, X: differentiation of stem conducting tissue

Journal Article Journal of the Arnold Arboretum. Arnold Arboretum · 1984 Cite

Architecture and phyllotaxis of Anisophyllea disticha (Rhizophoraceae)

Journal Article Bulletin of the Singapore Botanical Gardens · 1983 Cite