Per-Olov Johansson

Bio: Per-Olov Johansson is an academic researcher from United States Department of Agriculture. The author has contributed to research in topics: Forest management & Natural resource. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 272 citations.

Ecological economics: an introduction.

Abstract: 1 What is ecological economics? Part I Interdependent Systems: 2 The environment 3 The economy in the environment 4 How we got here Part II Economic Activity: 5 Economic accounting 6 Economic growth and human well-being 7 Economic growth and the environment 8 Exchange and markets 9 Limits to markets Part III Governance: 10 Determining policy objectives 11 Policy instruments Part IV The International Dimension: 12 A world of nation states 13 Climate change 14 Biodiversity loss

Least-Cost Forest Carbon Reserves: Cost-Effective Subsidies to Convert Marginal Agricultural Land to Forests

Abstract: Supply schedules for forests planted on marginal agricultural lands are used to simulate a national carbon sequestration program. A cost-effective program should focus on establishing softwood forests on pastureland, and select lands by minimizing cost per ton sequestered. A program similar to the Conservation Reserve Program would sequester 48.6 million tons of carbon per year (3.5 percent of U.S. emissions) on 22.2 million acres. Costs would include $3,700 million in land rental costs and forest establishment costs. Minimizing cost per acre would increase enrollment to 23.1 million acres and would sequester 45.0 million tons per year.

Minimum cost strategies for sequestering carbon in forests

Abstract: This paper examines the costs of meeting explicit targets for increments of carbon sequestered in forests when both forest management decisions and the area of forests can be varied. Costs are estimated as welfare losses in markets for forest and agricultural products. Results show greatest change in management actions when targets require large near-term flux increments, while land area change is largest when long-term increments are needed, Marginal costs per tonne of carbon flux do not vary greatly with the form of the target and are similar to findings of earlier studies for comparable size of average carbon flux increment.

Renewable Natural Resource Management and Use without Markets

Abstract: Natural resources, by their nature, are not readily bent to the status of private property. Efficient resource use is complicated by jurisdictional externalities, public goods, non-use values, and beneficiaries spatially separated from the location of resources. The task is made more challenging by ecological complexity that obscures cause (benefits) and effects (costs), and dramatic time lags between individual actions and subsequent social consequences that, together with substantial uncertainty, introduce the chance of irreversibilities. Resource economists have played a major role in the literature on externalities, the development of individual transferable quotas, non-market valuation techniques and common property management.

The Economics of Tropical Forest Land Use Options

Abstract: Tropical deforestation is generally characterized as conversion of forest land to alternative uses, notably agriculture. This would suggest the need for rational decision making concerning the optimal allocation of tropical forest land between competing uses. The following paper explores this problem by devising rules for determining optimal land use allocation between timber and agriculture at the stand and forest levels. A complementary intertemporal model for optimal allocation of forest land to agricultural conversion at the forest level is also developed and used to derive a demand relationship for agricultural conversion, which is then approximated through empirical estimation.