%0 Article %T Economic evaluation of forest policy programs. %A Vehkamäki, Seppo %D 1986 %J Silva Fennica %V 20 %N 4 %R doi:10.14214/sf.a27743 %U https://silvafennica.fi/article/5287 %X

The purpose of this paper is to present an approach to evaluate the profitableness of a forest policy program and to discover from among the feasible programs the one that best complies with the desired performance of the economy. At first the procedures of forest policy-making in a country like Finland is considered. After that a method to evaluate forest policy programs is derived.