The price of forests: proceedings of a seminar on the economics of the sustainable use of forest resources
This book constitutes the proceedings of a seminar on the economics of the sustainable use of forests resources was held in New Delhi in 1990. To deal with the various aspects of forest use and management, the seminar was divided into five sessions. The first session dealt with natural resource accounting with special reference to forests. The second session dealt with certain basic issues of forest management. The third session focussed on the state of knowledge about forest products. The fourth session brought together numerous interventions on the economics of afforestation and forest regeneration. The firth session tried to raise the issue of ecological diversity and, therefore, the need to analyse separately the economic role of forests in different agroecological regions.