Forest Economics and Policy (RWU-4804)

Our mission is to advance understanding of the relationship between natural and human-caused disturbances and economic values, how those disturbances can be managed to reduce undesired impacts on society and ecosystems, and how disturbances and their management affect different parts of the economy; to examine how public and private forestland management is affected by government policies and private sector institutions, including taxes, subsidies, certification, and forest governance, and quantify how these policies and institutions affect the provision of ecosystem goods and services; and to characterize domestic and international supply and demand for forest products in the United States and globally, including how domestic and international policies, climate, and technology affect these markets, and to develop, deploy, and test new models of land use that are more accurate and operationally useful for evaluating the effects of land market, biophysical, and policy factors affecting land use choices.

Other Sites Related to Forest Disturbances

• National Interagency Fire Center (Wildfire news, statistics, & reports)
• Fire and Aviation, USDA Forest Service (National Forest's wildland fire managing agency)
• Joint Fire Science Program (Government-funded wildfire research)
• NOAA Fire Weather Information Center (Fire weather forecasts, fire news, & satellite images)
• NOAA National Centers for Environmental Prediction (Research, forecasts, links to prediction centers)
• NOAA National Hurricane Center (Images, updates, forecasts, & news)
• Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
• Environmental and Societal Impacts Group
• National Center for Atmospheric Research (The science, policy and economics of environmental disasters)
• National Wildfire Coordinating Group (Interagency wildfire management and research coordinating group)

Forest Economics and Policy
Forestry Sciences Laboratory
PO Box 12254
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2254

Tel: 919-549-4000