The Economics of Tropical Forest Land Use Options
研究了热带森林土地在木材与农业之间的最优分配问题，提出了确定最优土地利用的规则，并建立了跨期模型来估计农业转换的需求关系。
Tropical deforestation is generally characterized as conversion of forest land to alternative uses, notably agriculture. This would suggest the need for rational decision making concerning the optimal allocation of tropical forest land between competing uses. The following paper explores this problem by devising rules for determining optimal land use allocation between timber and agriculture at the stand and forest levels. A complementary intertemporal model for optimal allocation of forest land to agricultural conversion at the forest level is also developed and used to derive a demand relationship for agricultural conversion, which is then approximated through empirical estimation.