Forest vocation lands and forest policy
Subtitle: when simpler is better
By: José Rente Nascimento.
Publisher: Rural Development Unit, Sustainable Development Dept., Inter-American Development Bank
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 58
Subjects: Forest policy; Forest management
Notes: "December 2005--No. RUR-05-03."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-52).
Table of contents: label: I. Executive Summary and Introduction
title: 1; label: II. Forest Based Externalities
title: 5; label: Soil loss related externalities and forests
title: 6; label: Biodiversity preservation externalities and forests
title: 8; label: Carbon sequestration and stock and forests
title: 11; label: Basic Features
title: 12; label: III. Land Use Planning
title: 15; label: Land cover and land use
title: 15; label: Soil and land classifications
title: 16; label: Soil and land classifications, and the price system
title: 20; label: Forest vocation lands
title: 21; label: IV. Land Rent and Forest Vocation Land
title: 25; label: Land rent and the choice of land use
title: 25; label: Social desirability of land use, cover, and vocation scenarios
title: 28; label: Good and bad deforestation
title: 29; label: Relaxing some assumptions
title: 30; label: Land rent and biodiversity preservation
title: 31; label: V. Forest Policy Based on Forest Vocation Land
title: 33; label: The framework
title: 33; label: Simpler and less costly
title: 34; label: Conditions for successful implementation
title: 34; label: Operational aspects
title: 36; label: Other forest implications
title: 39; label: V. Conclusions
title: 4