Analysis of Pricing Theory and Composition of Forest Environmental Resources Based on Marginal Opportunity Cost

Abstract

The theory of marginal opportunity cost provides a better method for resource pricing. It can reflect the production cost user cost and environmental cost of the source utilization. It is consistent with the idea of sustainable development. The theory has been widely used in coal and water resources pricing. However there is fewer search on forest environment resources pricing especially no systematic research. This paper firstly reviewed the marginal opportunity cost theory and its application followed by a feasibility analysis of applying it to forest environmental resources pricing. Considering the characteristic of forest environment resources, the research proposed a specific pricing composition based on the marginal opportunity cost theory. It has laid a theoretical foundation for the future research based on the marginal opportunity cost of forest environmental resource pricing.