Income from
forests has been largely «undervalued», particularly in assessments of poverty and income such as the World Bank's Living Standard
Measurement Survey, says Arild Angelsen, an
environmental economist at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Aas and a lead author of the study by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) based in Bogor, Indonesia.
He has built a station, and not just one, but probably the most impressive station, called SMEAR II (Station for Measuring Ecosystem - Atmosphere Relationships), in the boreal
forests of Finland showing how a rounded set of
environmental measurements can be obtained.