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Scientia Silvae Sinicae ›› 1999, Vol. 35 ›› Issue (6): 110-114.

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MARKET FAILURES AND COUNTERMEASURES IN THE ALLOCATION OF RESOURCES IN FOREST ECOSYSTEM

Zuomin Wen   

  1. College of Economics and Administration, NFU Nanjing 210037
  • Received:1998-12-01 Online:1999-11-25 Published:1999-11-25

Abstract:

Forest ecosy stem is the biggest land ecosy stem in the w orld.Public w elfare forests in building forest ecosystem are possessed of nonexclusive characteristic of public goods, which leads to economic ex ternality.It is an im portant facto r of market failures and causes law-efficient allocation of ecological resources for a long time.Only if effectively to solve the problems of market failures, can we make the balance between ecology and economy so that we can keep good quality and hig h efficiency in building forest ecosy stem in China.By way of analy zing the market failures, the paper raises several countermeasures such as combining property rights, Coase theorem and g rade price of ecological quality in o rder to amend a part of market failures.The article concerns that the price fluctuation of tim ber exerts an influence on supply of ecology, therefo re w e should timely adjust the grade price of ecology as price fluctuation of timber in order to assure effective supply of ecoloy.

Key words: Forest ecology, Market failures, Combining property rights, Coase theorem, Price of ecology