This chapter discusses privately owned forests and timber management in a market economy, including : (1) private property rights and tenure (2) landowner objectives (3) landowner characteristics (4) markets (5) government policies impacts

Data on world forest extent ,plantation extent ,and forest management and ownership provide the basis for monitoring the status of the world’s forest, as well as analyzing the effects of markets and government on those forests

Summary Theory Modeling approaches

Defining the production technology and technical efficiency The measurement and decomposition of cost efficiency Empirical methods Technical efficiency in southern U. S. pulpwood harvesting

Financial Analysis of Timber Investments 1. MODERN FINANCIALANALYSIS OF TIMBER INVESTMENTS 2. EVOLUTION OF TIMBERLAND AS AN ASSET CLASS 3. CONCLUSION

Forest Production 1. HARVESTING COSTS IN THE SOUTH 2. PRODUCTION THEORY 3. PRODUCTION AND COST OF HARVESTING SOUTHERN TIMBER 4. CONCLUSION

一、市场机制在资源配置方面的基础作用 二、市场失灵及其原因 三、政府对林业实行宏观调控的必要性

水环境容量:反映流域的自然属性(水文特性),又反映人类对环境 的需求(水质目标)

一、当地静态空气污染 二、区域性和全球性空气污染

一、概述 二、木材的供给与需求 三、林产品价格 四、我国木材市场的价格和改革