Timber Harvesting with Variable Prices and Costs

In its history, IIASA's Forestry (FOR) Project has produced a number of models casting future scenarios of the forest industry. At the same time, FOR has also been involved in ecosystem modeling and forest resource assessments. Linking the processes of forest industry development to its resource use will be of particular interest in the activity that FOR started this year - Information Technology and Structural Change of the Global Forest Sector. In this particular work, carried out in cooperation with the Finnish Forest Research Institute in Helsinki, Markku Penttinen establishes a decision tool that will help in endeavoring to answer the question of whether information technology will or will not improve the sustainability of the worlds forest resources