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Endangered species,real options,and forest management
Authors:Skander Ben Abdallah  Pierre Lasserre
Institution:Département des Sciences Economiques, Université du Quebecà Montreal, C.P. 8888, Montreal, H3C 3P8, Canada
Abstract:We use a real option approach to determine optimally when a social planner has to stop or resume logging in situations where an endangered species relies on forest habitat for its survival, and that habitat evolves stochasticly. The model incorporates economic, ecological and social features, and is calibrated to generate an optimal forest management rule that balances the benefits from commercial forest exploitation with the risks of extinction facing the endangered species. For the reasonable parameters used in our application to the Rangifer tarandus caribou, an endangered species in Central Labrador (Canada), the policy of banning logging temporarily is quite attractive as it does not require long banning periods while it drastically reduces the extinction risk and increases forest value. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
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