Geospatial economics.
- Resource Type
- Theses
- Authors
- Johnson, Justin Andrew
- Source
- Dissertation Abstracts International; Dissertation Abstract International; 77-02A(E).
- Subject
- Economics
- Language
- English
Summary: The empirical application presented in chapter two is useful to practitioners of ecosystem serve estimation. Calculating the ecosystem service value of non-timber forest products (NTFPs) has been difficult in practice due to computational and theoretical problems. Existing estimation approaches identify the abundance of NTFPs on different forest types but do not explicitly state how agents gather the firewood. The approach I use accounts for how these gathering decisions interact with the abundance of NTFPs to determine the ecosystem service value. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).