Paper presented at RICS Roots Rural Research Conference, Wadham College, Oxford, 4th to 5th April 2006.Although timber plantations and forests are classified as forms of agricultural production, the ownership of this land classification is not limited to rural producers. Timber plantations and forests are now regarded as a long-term investment with both institutional and absentee owners. While the NCREIF property indices have been the benchmarks for the measurement of the performance of the commercial property market in the UK, for many years the IPD timberland index has recently emerged as the U.K. forest and timberland performance indicator. The IPD Forest index incorporates 126 properties over five regions in the U.K. This paper...
Many forest landowners consider their forest to be an investment. Some of these landowners, however,...
This chapter contains an analysis of landholder attitudes to the potential for the commercialisation...
Rural development strategies often neglected forests in the past, but in the last two decades the at...
Although timber plantations and forests are classified as forms of agricultural production, the owne...
Although timber plantations and forests are classified as forms of agricultural production, the owne...
performance, mixed asset portfolios. Although timber plantations and forests are classified as forms...
In Queensland, Australia, there is presently a high level of interest in long-rotation hardwood plan...
The importance of agriculture in many countries has tended to reduce as their economies move from a ...
Most forest farmers know that growing timber is a good investment. Some forest farmers, however, and...
At global level there is a growing interest towards forest plantations as investment opportunities f...
In recent years, institutional and individual investors have increased their portfolio allocations ...
Woodland is a central component of the British landscape, comprising 13% of UK land, andcontributing...
Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) is the United Kingdom’s main commercial tree species accounting for ...
Forest owners' optimal harvesting and investment strategies are studied at the forest holding level ...
Under Vision 2020, a target was set in 1997 for trebling the plantation area in Australia by the yea...
Many forest landowners consider their forest to be an investment. Some of these landowners, however,...
This chapter contains an analysis of landholder attitudes to the potential for the commercialisation...
Rural development strategies often neglected forests in the past, but in the last two decades the at...
Although timber plantations and forests are classified as forms of agricultural production, the owne...
Although timber plantations and forests are classified as forms of agricultural production, the owne...
performance, mixed asset portfolios. Although timber plantations and forests are classified as forms...
In Queensland, Australia, there is presently a high level of interest in long-rotation hardwood plan...
The importance of agriculture in many countries has tended to reduce as their economies move from a ...
Most forest farmers know that growing timber is a good investment. Some forest farmers, however, and...
At global level there is a growing interest towards forest plantations as investment opportunities f...
In recent years, institutional and individual investors have increased their portfolio allocations ...
Woodland is a central component of the British landscape, comprising 13% of UK land, andcontributing...
Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis) is the United Kingdom’s main commercial tree species accounting for ...
Forest owners' optimal harvesting and investment strategies are studied at the forest holding level ...
Under Vision 2020, a target was set in 1997 for trebling the plantation area in Australia by the yea...
Many forest landowners consider their forest to be an investment. Some of these landowners, however,...
This chapter contains an analysis of landholder attitudes to the potential for the commercialisation...
Rural development strategies often neglected forests in the past, but in the last two decades the at...