Development and application of a framework for assessing the economic impacts of air pollution on forests

Conference · Wed Oct 01 04:00:00 EDT 1986

OSTI ID:7096260

Callaway, J M; Nesse, R J

This paper describes the methods used to evaluate the economic impacts of air pollution-induced reductions in forest growth in the eastern United States for the 1985 Damage Assessment. Estimates of the effects of simulated reductions in forest growth on growing stock inventories, stumpage and primary wood product markets, and on the economic well-being of buyers and sellers in these markets are presented. Generally speaking, the estimated economic effects should be interpreted with appropriate regard for the uncertainties about the physical effects of air pollutants on forest growth and the assumptions required to perform the economic analysis. Nevertheless, the general pattern of economic impacts which emerges from the analysis is fairly robust to increases in the intensity of the simulated growth reductions and, as such, the results of the simulations appear to be generally suggestive of the kinds of impacts which could occur due to increases in air pollution.

• Research Organization: Pacific Northwest Lab., Richland, WA (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: AC06-76RL01830
• OSTI ID: 7096260
• Report Number(s): PNL-SA-13864; CONF-8604290-1; ON: DE87002061
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING, POLICY, AND ECONOMY
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54 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
ACID RAIN
AIR POLLUTION
ATMOSPHERIC PRECIPITATIONS
ECONOMIC IMPACT
FORESTS
INDUSTRY
MARKET
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POLLUTION
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