Economic Impacts of Air Pollution Damage to U.S. Forests : 19th IUFRO World Congress

1990

S. 247-256

3 Tab., 11 Lit. Ang.

Unselbständiges Werk

200086053

This past decade has seen the emergence of concern regarding forest decline possibly caused by acid rain or other air pollutants. In the U.S. attempts to estimate the economic impacts associated with forest decline have involved the application of forest sector models that combine economic and biological models. The economic impacts associated with prospective forest (growth) declines are concentrated in the Southern United States. On net, declines in forest growth lead to a reduction in overall welfare because of higher prices throughout the forest sector. Consumers are impacted more than producers but these impacts are slow to develop as they depend on changes in timber inventories.