Forest sector models such as the Assessment System have much to add to current forest policy deliberations and research is rapidly expanding their capabilities in identifying production trade-offs between timber and noncommodity uses, looking at finer geographic scales, recognizing policy interactions across sectors, and characterizing uncertainty in policy outcomes. The Assessment System has remained a useful policy analysis tool over nearly three decades in part because of its mixed model format, regional and owner detail, elaborated treatment of the private timber inventory and management investment, its myopic structure, and the collaboration of its developers with policy-makers to adapt model structure to decision needs and to explain projection results.
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Adams, D.M., Haynes, R.W. (2007). The Utility of Forest Sector Models in Addressing Forest Policy Questions. In: Adams, D.M., Haynes, R.W. (eds) Resource and Market Projections for Forest Policy Development. Managing Forest Ecosystems, vol 14. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6309-1_17
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