Modelling and decomposition for planning long-term forest harvesting in an integrated industry structure

Abstract

The paper briefly reviews the literature on economic approaches to forest rotation and then goes on to examine the mathematical programming approaches, particularly the Model I and Model II forms discussed by Johnson and Scheurmann. Only the work of Barros and Weintraub attempts to model both growth and harvest together with an integrated industry structure. Their work, however, uses the Model I type of modelling of the forest growth and harvesting. Like Barros and Weintraub, we use a simple integrated industry structure. -from Authors