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Assessing the market and non-market benefits of Southern agroforestry systems

Zinkhan, C., D. E. Mercer, and B. H. Stansell

Agroforestry systems produce multiple benefits from outputs that are both traded and not traded in the marketplace. Accurate accounting of both monetary and non-monetary benefits is needed by resource managers to effectively evaluate the relative attractiveness of alternative land-use plans. An approach for applying the technique of conjoint analysis to the measurement of benefits for a landowner considering a tree-crop agroforestry system in North Carolina is described and critiqued. Conjoint analysis enables the manager to compare the competing management plans in terms of landowner utility.

Fiscal Year: fy98 ·  Problem Area: pa98-4 ·  Theme: cctsopin ·  Source: coop   <== Explain

Zinkhan, C., D. E. Mercer, and B. H. Stansell. 1998. Pages 45-47 In: Kluender, R. A., M. M. Corrigan, and N. B. Smith. The Arkansas Forest Resources Center, University of Arkansas,Monticello, AR. Proceedings of the 1997 Southern Forest Economics Workers Meeting. 3/19/1997.

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