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Using the Escalator Boxcar Train to Determine the Optimal Management of a Size-Distributed Forest When Carbon Sequestration Is Taken into Account

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We present a theoretical model to determine the optimal management of a size-distributed forest.The decision model is given in form of a distributed optimal control problem that cannot be solved analytically. Thus, the paper presents a numerical technique that allows transforming the original distributed control problem into an ordinary control problem. The method has the advantage that it does not require programming numerical algorithms but rather can be implemented with standard commercial optimization packages such as GAMS. The empirical application of our model for the case of forest management allows determining the selective cutting regime when carbon sequestration is taken into account.

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  1. Department of Economics, University of Girona, Campus de Montilivi, Girona, 17071, Spain

    Renan Goetz & Angels Xabadia

  2. Department of Mathematics, Prairie View A&M University, Box 519, Prairie View, TX 77446, USA

    Natali Hritonenko

  3. College of Business and Economics, Houston Baptist University, 7502 Fondren Road, Houston, TX 77074, USA

    Yuri Yatsenko

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  1. Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev, Bl. 25A, 1113, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Ivan Lirkov

  2. Institute for Parallel Processing, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Acad. G. Bonchev Str. Bl. 25-A, 1113, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Svetozar Margenov

  3. Department of Informatics and Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, Richard Petersen Plads, Building 321, DK-2800, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

    Jerzy Waśniewski

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Goetz, R., Hritonenko, N., Xabadia, A., Yatsenko, Y. (2008). Using the Escalator Boxcar Train to Determine the Optimal Management of a Size-Distributed Forest When Carbon Sequestration Is Taken into Account. In: Lirkov, I., Margenov, S., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Large-Scale Scientific Computing. LSSC 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4818. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78827-0_37

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