A new study found that the annual economic impact of Virginia’s agriculture and forestry sectors increased by nearly 7 percent since similar research was conducted in 2016. The economic impact study ...

The study aims to establish the economic value of forestry and the number of jobs it supports A major study is being launched to gauge the contribution of forestry to the Scottish economy. The study, ...

I witnessed the expansive colonial-era government forests and the subsequent post-independence forestry-based industries which made Webuye, Eldoret and Elburgon industrial towns, making paper and ...

A new report indicates that the White River National Forest directly and indirectly generates 22,230 jobs and produces a $1.59-billion contribution to the economy of central Colorado, including Aspen ...

Forests are a key source of added-value public goods, such as timber. The benefits of forests, however, go beyond marketable produce and include environmental services, such as climate change ...

Environmental economics is similar to other expanding fields, it turns out. For example, Tauhid Zaman, assistant professor of operations management at the MIT Sloan School of Business, lamented that ...

The global economic crisis has slowed demand for timber products and may undermine efforts to improve the environmental performance of forestry, reports the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO ...

A new comprehensive study shows Virginia’s agriculture and forestry industries contribute $91 billion annually to the Commonwealth’s economy. This represents a 30 percent increase from the most recent ...

The discipline of forest economics, business and society investigates interconnections between forests, the economy and society. Research in the discipline develops solutions for a sustainable natural ...

The use of residual forest biomass for rural development faces significant economic hurdles that make it unlikely to be a source of jobs in the near future, according to an analysis by economists. The ...

India is experiencing a phase of economic boom. For the second year running, the economy has grown at 9%, thanks to the high growth in the manufacturing and the services sectors. In fact, there is no ...