@article{Krcmar:10251,
      recid = {10251},
      author = {Krcmar, Emina and Eagle, Alison J. and van Kooten, G.  Cornelis},
      title = {Optimal Forest Strategies for Addressing Tradeoffs and  Uncertainty in Economic Development under Old-Growth  Constraints},
      address = {2007},
      number = {524-2016-37730},
      series = {Selected Paper 174473},
      pages = {32},
      year = {2007},
      abstract = {In Canada, governments have historically promoted economic  development in rural regions by promoting exploitation of  natural resources, particularly forests. Forest resources  are an economic development driver in many of the more than  80% of native communities located in forest regions. But  forests also provide aboriginal people with cultural and  spiritual values, and non-timber forest amenities (e.g.,  biodiversity, wildlife harvests for meat and fur, etc.),  that are incompatible with timber exploitation. Some  cultural and other amenities can only be satisfied by  maintaining a certain amount of timber in an old-growth  state. In that case, resource constraints might be too  onerous to satisfy development needs. We employ compromise  programming and fuzzy programming to identify forest  management strategies that best compromise between  development and other objectives, applying our models to an  aboriginal community in northern Alberta. In addition to  describing how mathematical programming techniques can be  applied to regional development and forest management, we  conclude from the analysis that no management strategy is  able to satisfy all of the technical, environmental and  social/cultural constraints and, at the same time, offer  aboriginal peoples forest-based economic development.  Nonetheless, we demonstrate that extant forest management  policies can be improved upon.},
      url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/10251},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.22004/ag.econ.10251},
}