Valuing multiple forest outputs

Abstract

In today's society, there is increasing pressure placed on forests to provide multiple forest outputs. Forestry organizations have responded by promoting identification and valuation of these outputs for trade-off, criteria and indicators, or other analyses. However, in the process of conducting such analyses, many forest outputs are dropped at the evaluation stage owing to a stated lack of available and reliable data. In an effort to help increase our understanding of the value of multiple forest outputs and trade-offs, I have been refining and applying a number of socio-economic measurement tools. In this article, I provide an overview of my (and my students') research activities and contributions to this growing area of research.