Juha Siitonen Author

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Cost-Efficiency of Alternative Forest Conservation Targets, a Case Study from Finland

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Anssi Ahtikoski, Riitta Hänninen, Jouni Siipilehto, Jari Hynynen, Juha Siitonen, Terhi Koskela and Soili Kojola

Temporal contracts to protect biodiversity in forests are a recent approach which has shown to be a promising and cost-efficient procedure. With respect to cost-efficiency of temporal contracts the relevant issue is the goal of conservation: for instance, are we interested in enhancing CWD index (coarse woody debris) or increasing the amount of dead wood in forests? This study focuses on demonstrating the effect of conservation goal (either enhancing CWD index or increasing the amount of dead wood) on costefficiency by optimization. Further, we analyze whether both the length of temporal conservation (10 or 30 years) and discount rate (2% or 4%) would have an effect on optimal solutions. The data consisted of 20 measured forest sites with stand age between 60 and 160 years. Majority of ... view more»

DOI: 10.4172/2327-4417.1000189

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