Maison d'édition:Publisher:
Elsevier
URL officiel:Official URL:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2014.07.004
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Abstract:The timber auction system currently used in the province of Québec, Canada, is a single unit auction, in which timber users bid on entire forest stands located within a specific area. In this procurement system, timber users (i.e., winners) are responsible for harvesting the entire stands and for reselling undesirable timber species to others. In order to improve the limits of this system, this paper proposes a sustainable auction system, referred to as time-based timber combinatorial auction. In this approach, time is not part of the definition of the goods for sale. It is used to valuate the good for sale with respect to their expected delivery period. Therefore, this system aims to simultaneously allocate multiple goods, or products in mixed forest stand, to multiple winners, and address the coordination of timber deliveries to their winners. The when delivery coordination must be manually negotiated among multi-stakeholder.