This paper deals with the forest owner's attitude towards risk and the harvesting decision in
several ways. First, we propose to characterize and quantify the forest owner's attitude …

Forests are increasingly threatened by windthrows but those composed of uneven-aged
stand plots are generally less impacted by their effects. As a consequence, the management …

Key message Insurance might be an efficient tool to strengthen adaptation of forest
management to climate change. A theoretical model under uncertainty is proposed to …

Markov decision process models were extended to reflect some consequences of the risk
attitude of forestry decision makers. One approach consisted of maximizing the expected …

«An economic analysis of a storage policy after a storm occurrence in forestry» Page 1
Documents de travail Bureau d’Économie Théorique et Appliquée BETA www.beta-economics.fr …

Storm is a major risk in forestry. However, due to the more or less pessimistic scenarios of
future climate change, storm frequency is now ambiguous and only partially known (ie …

This paper reports an experiment designed to study the influence of a local interaction
structure on equilibrium selection in a coordination game. A 'global interaction'is a situation …

The work presented in this thesis is an analysis of the stand specific characteristics
determining risk of windthrow in Douglas-fir. The study is meant to provide forest managers …

This thesis investigates the impacts of an extreme winter storm on the forest resources. At
first a GIS based Weight of Evidence (WofE) model is developed to identify the most …

In this special issue, a sample of the papers presented and discussions held are provided.
The selected articles are partly presented in the context of the cost–benefit analysis of …