Abstract

Forests in northern Sweden are used for both timber production and reindeer grazing. Negative externalities and open access effects threaten the ability of the region to sustain economic benefits from these uses. A discrete time simulation for three municipalities in northern Sweden suggests that modifying forest harvest practices can enhance profits from reindeer production, with relatively low timber opportunity costs. Such efforts to sustain joint benefits from these boreal environments are more likely to be successful in combination with control of reindeer herd sizes

Published in

Land Economics
2003, Volume: 79, number: 2, pages: 149-159
Publisher: UNIV WISCONSIN

SLU Authors

• Boman, Mattias

  • Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Bostedt, Göran

  • Department of Forest Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Economics and Business
Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use
Forest Science


Publication identifier

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3146864

Permanent link to this page (URI)

https://res.slu.se/id/publ/608