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Abstract
In the past three decades, new trends have been influencing the field of forest economics. For example, the optimal rotation literature has focused increasingly on risk and uncertainty analysis and there has been a steady increase in the number of economic studies regarding tropical deforestation. In this article, it is investigated whether the emergence of these topics is reflected in relevant textbooks of the discipline. Moreover, some structural textbook attributes are analyzed and compared, namely the use of illustrative elements and pedagogical aids. Our results show that one can clearly recognize a steady development in the texts.
Notes
1. Of course, this is a very subjective list. There are many other textbooks on forest economics, among others CitationGregory (1987), CitationKula (1988), CitationNautiyal (1988), CitationPearse (1990), and CitationDuerr (1993). Gregory's book was found to be the most frequently used undergraduate textbook in U.S. forest economic courses in 1986, while there was no clear preference for a graduate book (CitationSendak, 1988).