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Economic Development Prospects of Forest-Dependent Communities: Analyzing Trade-offs Using a Compromise-Fuzzy Programming Framework

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  • Emina Krcmar
  • G. Cornelis van Kooten

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Many aboriginal communities look to forest resources for short- and long-term employment, adequate timber for mills, an even flow of wood fiber for community stability, and financial returns for economic diversification. We address these conflicting objectives using multiple-objective programming. We show how compromise programming can be used to set bounds on fuzzy membership functions, and illustrate the difference between crisp and fuzzy weighting of objectives. Economic development outcomes obtained using compromise and fuzzy programming greatly improve upon those associated with the even-flow of timber rule of thumb. Yet, timber extraction is an inadequate driver of economic development in rural communities. Copyright 2008, Oxford University Press.

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  • Emina Krcmar & G. Cornelis van Kooten, 2008. "Economic Development Prospects of Forest-Dependent Communities: Analyzing Trade-offs Using a Compromise-Fuzzy Programming Framework," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 90(4), pages 1103-1117.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:90:y:2008:i:4:p:1103-1117
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    1. Amin W. Mugera, 2013. "Measuring technical efficiency of dairy farms with imprecise data: a fuzzy data envelopment analysis approach," Australian Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society, vol. 57(4), pages 501-520, October.
    2. van Kooten, G. Cornelis & Nijnik, Maria & Bradford, Kimpton, 2019. "Can carbon accounting promote economic development in forest-dependent, indigenous communities?," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 100(C), pages 68-74.
    3. Zenebe Gebreegziabher & Kooten, G. Cornelis van, 2016. "Single versus Multiple Objective(s) Decision Making: An Application to Subsistence Farms in Northern Ethiopia," Ethiopian Journal of Economics, Ethiopian Economics Association, vol. 24(2), August.
    4. Krcmar, Emina & Eagle, Alison J. & van Kooten, G. Cornelis, 2007. "Optimal Forest Strategies for Addressing Tradeoffs and Uncertainty in Economic Development under Old-Growth Constraints," Annual Meeting, 2007, July 29-August 1, Portland, Oregon 10251, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society.

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