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| Provedor de dados: |
AgEcon
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| País: |
United States
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| Título: |
Forest Management Zone Design with a Tabu Search Algorithm
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| Autores: |
Krcmar, Emina
Mitrovic-Minic, Snezana
van Kooten, G. Cornelis
Vertinsky, Ilan
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| Data: |
2008-06-09
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| Ano: |
2005
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| Palavras-chave: |
Forest planning
Integer programming
Reserves
Tabu search
Timber production
Zoning
Environmental Economics and Policy
Land Economics/Use
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
C60
Q23
R14
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| Resumo: |
Increased conflicts between timber production and environmental protection led some analysts to advocate land-use segregation, often referred to as forest management zoning. The objective of zoning is to create ecologically desirable non-fragmented forest reserves and group timber production areas. We formulate an integer programming model of forest zoning that explicitly addresses clustering of spatial units allocated to timber production and reserve zones while also promoting separation of these zones. A tabu search algorithm is developed, implemented and tested using a case study. The case study results indicate that up to 5% of the net financial return is sacrificed with a 'satisfactory' grouping of units within each zone. A 'good' separation between the reserves and timber production zone is achieved at the cost of further decline of the net financial return up to 11% relative to the unconstrained case.
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| Tipo: |
Working or Discussion Paper
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| Idioma: |
Inglês
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| Identificador: |
http://purl.umn.edu/37022
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| Relação: |
University of Victoria>Resource and Environmental Economics and Policy Analysis Research Group>Working Papers
REPA Working Paper
2005-12
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| Formato: |
26
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