The Economics of Amenities and Migration in the Pacific Northwest
Author : Brian E. Garber-Yonts
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 37,19 MB
Release : 2004
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Author : Brian E. Garber-Yonts
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 37,19 MB
Release : 2004
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Author : Brian E. Garber-Yonts
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Page : 56 pages
File Size : 31,86 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Forest management
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This paper reviews literature on the influence of nonmarket amenity resources on population migration. Literature reviewed includes migration and demographic studies; urban and regional economics studies of amenities in labor markets, retirement migration, and firm location decisions; nonmarket valuation studies using hedonic price analysis of amenity resource values; land use change studies; and studies of the economic development influence of forest preservation. A synthesis of the literature finds that the influence of amenities is consistently shown to be a positive factor contributing to population growth in urban and rural areas characterized by proximity to public forest lands. Beyond this broad finding, however, little research has been conducted at an appropriate scale to be directly useful in forest management and planning decisions. Areas for further research are identified.
Author : Brian E. Garber-Yonts
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,86 MB
Release : 2004
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Author : United States. National Resources Planning Board
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Page : 302 pages
File Size : 18,41 MB
Release : 1939
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Author : Northwest Regional Council
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Page : 104 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Northwest, Pacific
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Page : 76 pages
File Size : 40,27 MB
Release : 1941
Category : Human beings
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Page : 240 pages
File Size : 49,40 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Migration, Internal
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Author : Pacific Northwest Regional Planning Commission
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Page : 240 pages
File Size : 39,35 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Migration, Internal
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Author : John Bargate Appleton
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Page : 17 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 19??
Category : Migration, Internal
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Author : J. D. Kline
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Page : 52 pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Ecosystem services
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Balancing society's multiple and sometimes competing objectives regarding forests calls for information describing the direct and indirect benefits resulting from forest policy and management, whether to address wildfire, loss of open space, unmanaged recreation, ecosystem restoration, or other objectives. The USDA Forest Service recently has proposed the concept of ecosystem services as a framework for (1) describing the many benefits provided by public and private forests, (2), evaluating the effects of policy and management decisions involving public and private forest lands, and (3) advocating the use of economic and market-based incentives to protect private forest lands from development. The concept extends traditional economic theory regarding multiple forest benefits and the use of economic incentives to enhance their provision, by emphasizing ecosystems as an organizing structure for benefits. Although the emphasis on ecosystems is new, challenges in evaluating ecosystem services are similar to those long faced by economists tasked with evaluating forest benefits: (1) defining a typology of ecosystem services, (2) describing and measuring ecosystem services units or outputs, and (3) describing and measuring ecosystem services per unit of values or social weights. Progress within the Forest Service in applying the ecosystem services concept to forest policy and management will depend on knowing what information will suffice, working across disciplines, deciding on appropriate analytical frameworks, defining the appropriate role of economic and market-based incentives, and adequately funding economics research.