Experience economics – An emerging field within forest economics?

Pine and Gilmore , 1999 introduced the concept of ‘experience economics’ which has, to the best of our knowledge, so far not been explicitly used in forest economics literature. However, it is an emerging discipline – for instance, Copenhagen Business School has in 2006 established a Master’s education in experience economics called‘Management of Creative Business Processes’.

Mantau et al. (2001, p. 12) define Environmental Recreational Goods and Services (ERGS) as ‘‘public goods and services provided by forestry and the related environment before any transformation/development takes place. By a process of transformation y and/or by product developmentyRES products (recreational goods and...