Knoke, T. & Huth, A. (2011): <b>Modelling Forest Growth and Finance: Often Disregarded Tools in Tropical Land Management</b>. In: Guenter, S., Weber, M., Stimm, B., Mosandl, R. (eds.): <i>Silviculture in the Tropics </i> (S. Guenter et al. (eds.), Silviculture in the Tropics <b>Tropical F</b>), Springer, 129-142.
Resource Description
Title:
Modelling Forest Growth and Finance: Often Disregarded Tools in Tropical Land Management
FOR816dw ID:
1109
Publication Date:
2011-07-08
License and Usage Rights:
Resource Owner(s):
Individual:
Thomas Knoke
Contact:
email:
knoke <at> forst.tu-muenchen.de
Center of Life and Food Science Weihenstephan
Institute of Forest Management
Technische Universität München
Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2
85354 Freising
Germany
Individual:
Andreas Huth
Contact:
email:
Andreas.Huth <at> UFZ.de
P.O. Box 500 136
UFZ Centre for Environmental Research Leipzig-Halle
Dept. of Ecological Modelling
04301 Leipzig
Germany
Abstract:
While many studies analyse patterns of tropical land management with a <br/>
backward-oriented approach that utilises data of the past, we propose to consider <br/>
future-oriented modelling approaches to find sustainable land-use options. This<br/>
proposal is illustrated with application examples for advanced growth modelling in <br/>
tropical forests, a short overview on financial performance analyses for tropical land <br/>
uses, and the introduction of a newmodelling approach. Thismodelling approach sees <br/>
tropical land management as a financial portfolio of land-use options. Its advantage is <br/>
the ability to make transparent effects of financial risk reduction that arise from <br/>
mixing forestry and agriculture-based land-use options. The approach thus does not <br/>
analyse land uses as stand-alone options, like most other analyses do. The land-use <br/>
portfolio modelling shows that sustainable land use may also be financially attractive <br/>
for farmers, if abandoned farm lands are reforested (with a native tree species in our <br/>
case) and sustainable management in natural forests is carried out. We conclude that <br/>
the combination of advanced growth with sound financial modelling may lead to <br/>
improved bioeconomic models. Developed bioeconomic models are necessary to <br/>
increase the biological realism and acceptability of the results obtained.
Literature type specific fields:
CHAPTER
Chapter Number:
11
Book Editor:
Guenter, S., Weber, M., Stimm, B., Mosandl, R.
Book Title:
Silviculture in the Tropics
Page Range:
129-142
Publisher:
Springer
Edition:
S. Guenter et al. (eds.), Silviculture in the Tropics
Volume:
Tropical F
ISBN:
978-3-642-19986-8
Metadata Provider:
Individual:
Thomas Knoke
Contact:
email:
knoke <at> forst.tu-muenchen.de
Center of Life and Food Science Weihenstephan
Institute of Forest Management
Technische Universität München
Hans-Carl-von-Carlowitz-Platz 2
85354 Freising
Germany
