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- Title
The Value of Tropical Forest to Local Communities: Complications, Caveats, and Cautions.
- Authors
Sheil, Douglas; Wunder, Sven
- Abstract
The article discusses how valuation studies of tropical forests should be assessed and challenged by users. It cites the risk of valuation studies being used to justify inappropriate actions. It examines two valuation papers. It illustrates a series of questions that should be asked about the two papers and about any landscape valuation study. It highlights challenges in valuing tropical forest lands and in presenting the results and offers suggestions for improvement. It concludes the need for forest valuation to be pursued and promoted with caution.
- Subjects
VALUATION of forests; RESEARCH; VALUATION; LANDSCAPES; NATURAL resources; NATURE
- Publication
Conservation Ecology (11955449), 2002, Vol 6, Issue 2, p257
- ISSN
1195-5449
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.5751/ES-00458-060209