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Economic Studies in the Landscape Analysis and Applications Section

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The Canadian Forest Service provides support for forest management research and policy development at local, regional and national scales. An important aspect of this is the economics of forests and forestry. In fact, forest economics is a broad field. It includes subjects ranging from demand and supply analysis of wood products, to non-timber valuation and forest management planning inclusive of wood and non-wood values. The Landscape Analysis and Applications section was formerly called the Forest Resource Economics Section and continues to have an interest and capacity in certain types of economic studies.

Over time the Section has been involved in a broad range of economics-related studies addressing the following objectives:

• to develop generic planning tools, methodologies and an understanding of forest resource production functions for both wood and non-wood values, trade-off analysis and non-market valuation;
• to undertake studies in research evaluation and decision support for research priority setting;
• to encourage the dissemination of economic logic and principles including undertaking miscellaneous duties for CFS management
  

The following publication list (by year) indicates economic-related studies that have been completed in the past. For further information please contact dmckenne@nrcan.gc.ca