ABSTRACT
A central goal for those who would like to see additional and improved policy for TDFs is to nd ways in which relevant private actors will take these societal values into consideration. This is a big challenge. At the national level, policy makers themselves should consider signicant tradeoffs when making decisions whether to protect forests or whether to allow their conversion. Furthermore, national policies may not reect the global value of the dry forests. Because many forest services are global public goods, optimal forest conservation is inevitably an international issue.
