<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>32</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Anderson, Jay Anthony</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Economics of priority-use zoning</style></title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2008</style></year></dates><urls><web-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://search.proquest.com/docview/304408343</style></url></web-urls></urls><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">University of Alberta</style></pub-location><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Renewable Resources</style></volume><pages><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">142</style></pages><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">en</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">This three-paper thesis explores the economics of priority-use zoning at three different scales: the stand-, forest-, and international-level. The first paper (Chapter 2) is the stand-level analysis. Here we estimate a yield curve for hybrid poplar, and use it to conduct a financial analysis of hybrid poplar plantations. Our findings suggest hybrid poplar plantations in Alberta are barely financially viable. Before these plantations could play a role in priority-use zoning, the financial viability would likely need to be improved. Such improvements could occur through changes to land-use policy.

The second paper (Chapter 3) is the forest-level analysis. Here we assess how current forest policies for Canada's private and public land may constrain plantation forestry, and therefore prevent priority-use zoning. We suggest policies that could encourage zoning within Canadian boreal regions. Then we use a timber supply model to analyze how each policy affects forest industry profits, timber output, and the spatial allocation of forest preserves. Our findings suggest the policies give rise to priority-use zoning, thus enabling land-use specialization to increase both profits and preservation.

The third paper (Chapter 4) is the international-level analysis. Here we further explore priority-use zoning by empirically analyzing the following determinants of forest preservation: income, trade, institutions, technique (i.e., plantations), as well as the composition and scale of the economy. Our findings suggest that a country's preservation is affected by its polity, level of forestry imports, and income--but not by its plantation area (suggesting a paucity of priority-use zoning). We also find evidence that forest preservation is higher in more democratic countries and in countries that import more forest products.
</style></abstract><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Ph. D.</style></issue><custom1><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Forestry</style></custom1><custom2><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Alberta Pacific Forests Industries</style></custom2><custom3><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/516234038</style></custom3><custom4><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Science</style></custom4></record></records></xml>