Modeling public forest land use tradeoffs on Vancouver Island
1995
Kooten, G. C.
Because forestry accounts for about 10% of British Columbia's economy and 95% of British Columbia's total land base is publicly owned, forest land use policies are important to the provincial economy. In this paper, goal programming is used to examine the economic impacts of a stakeholder's process for allocating public land on Vancouver Island. Despite including recreational and nonuse benefits and tourist jobs, the result indicate likely losses of 4,500 direct jobs (1.5% of all jobson the island), a decline in government revenue by 5.5% or $82.5 million per year and an annual reduction in society's welfare by some $440 million (constituting 0.5% of provincial GDP).
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