A probit analysis of the harvest decision using pooled time-series and cross-sectional data

Urbanization’s impact on timber harvesting in the south central United States

“…binary or multinomial logit and probit models, have been used extensively to model environmental change or management. Harvesting choice (Binkley, 1981;Jamnick and Beckett, 1988;Dennis, 1990;Wear and Flamm, 1993), land-use and/or land cover change (Plantinga, 1996;Turner et al, 1996;Wear et al, 1996;Hardie and Parks, 1997), timber supply (Wear et al, 1999;Hodges et al, 2000), and forest fire frequency (Zhai et al, 1998) are some of the issues investigated using discrete choice models in the environmental arena. Logit and probit models are equivalent except for the assumed distributions, logistic and normal respectively.…”

“…The probability that forested property is managed as commercial timberland is inversely related to population density (Wear et al, 1999). Landowner income is negatively related to harvest probability (Binkley, 1981;Jamnick and Beckett, 1988;Dennis, 1989Dennis, , 1990. Investment in forest management practices is positively related to income but negatively related to landowner age (Romm et al, 1987).…”

Case Study of the Effects of the Japanese Verified Emissions Reduction (J-VER) System on Joint Forest Production of Timber and Carbon Sequestration

“…We made use of a number of simulations developed and applied to Japan at the national level (Nakajima et al, 2010), so the current models are applicable throughout Japan without the need for new estimates of the parameters. Compared with other studies using similar statistical modeling approaches (Dennis 1990;Pattanayak et al 2003;Royer 1987;Zhang and Pearse 1997;Lewis and Plantinga 2007;Kurttila et al 2006;Bolkesjø and Baardsen, 2002), our work appears to be more broadly applicable. Although there may be dramatic changes in carbon and timber prices in the future, our approach should enable us to predict the effect of carbon price scenarios on forest resources and timber production in Japanese forest plantations.…”

“…10a) would not decrease immediately, because weeding continues to be required for 5 years after planting in the clear-cutting area. Previous studies have analyzed useful variables and estimated parameters for several econometric models including the probit model (Dennis 1990;Pattanayak et al 2003) and the logistic regression model (Royer 1987;Zhang and Pearse 1997), which can be used to predict the effects of forestry policies and subsidy systems. Other previous studies (e.g.…”

Attitude face au risque et décision de récolte des propriétaires forestiers privés français

“…Ce résultat est similaire à celui obtenu par Dennis (1990) et Hyberg et Holthausen (1989. Selon ces auteurs, ce résultat pourrait être la conséquence des arbitrages réalisés par les propriétaires entre le revenu de la forêt (effet de revenu) et les aménités de leur forêt (effet de substitution).…”