Certified Tropical Timber and Consumer Behaviour
Certified Tropical Timber and Consumer Behaviour

Author: Karl L. Brockmann

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 185

ISBN-13: 3642517358

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Boycotting tropical timber reduces its economic value and provides an incentive to burn down forests, making them available for subsequent agricultural use or livestock farming. In contrast, a certification scheme for sustainably produced timber (tropical or non-tropical) protects the forests by raising their economic value. Examined here the impact of a certification scheme on German demand for tropical timber. A partial-equilibrium model is developed for the German tropical timber market as a whole as well as for five important submarkets representing 50% of the total demand. The results reveal that a credible certification scheme can induce a significant expansion of demand for sustainably produced tropical timber. This holds true for a scheme restricted to Germany as well as for an OECD-wide approach.

Trade Policy, Processing and New Zealand Forestry
Trade Policy, Processing and New Zealand Forestry

Author: John Gilbert

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-11-25

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 100011404X

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This title was first published in 2000: Examines core issues with respect to the effect of export restrictions, the impact on processing and welfare, the consequences of foreign ownership of the resource, and the possibility of utilizing export restrictions as a retaliatory strategy against escalating tariff structures. It also examines the impact of liberalization of processed good markets. The book employs a combination of formal general equilibrium modelling and counterfactual simulation using computable general equilibrium (CGE) tecniques, with the New Zealand forestry industry used as a case study throughout. The book makes a contribution to the literature in this field by incorporating foreign ownership into an extensive formal analysis of processing incentives, develooping a new CGE model of the New Zealand economy, utilizing this model to evaluate the costs of export restrictions, and utilizing the GTAP to provide insights into the possible effect of the APEC Early Voluntary Sector Liberalization strategy.

Controlling Tropical Deforestation
Controlling Tropical Deforestation

Author: Alan Grainger

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 1134064497

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Tropical rain forest is being cleared so rapidly and on such a scale that it is a major global environmental problem, threatening the survival of half of the world's plant and animal species and contributing to global climate change through the greenhouse effect. But, despite widespread concern for over twenty years, only limited progress has been made in controlling deforestation and improving forest management in the humid tropics. In this book Alan Grainger offers afresh analysis of the causes of deforestation and presents an integrated strategy for controlling it. His strategy embraces agriculture, forestry and conservation and stresses the need for changes in government policies if land use is to be made more sustainable and the underlying causes of the problem are to be addressed. Controlling Tropical Deforestation is essential reading for policy makers, agronomists, foresters, conservationists and development professionals. To general readers and students on introductory courses at schools and universities it also offers the first concise but comprehensive overview of the causes, scale and consequences of deforestation. Alan Grainger is a lecturer in geography at the University of Leeds. He is author of The Threatening Desert: Controlling Desertification, also published by Earthscan. Originally published in 1992

Tropical Hardwood Trade in the Asia-Pacific Region
Tropical Hardwood Trade in the Asia-Pacific Region

Author: Kenji Takeuchi

Publisher:

Published: 1974

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13:

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Toward a regional timber policy. Trends in world wood economy. Sources of tropical hardwood. Markets for tropical hardwood: trends and prospects. Price trends and outlook for tropical hardwood in the Asia-Pacific region.

Overexploitation or Sustainable Management? Action Patterns of the Tropical Timber Industry
Overexploitation or Sustainable Management? Action Patterns of the Tropical Timber Industry

Author: Imme Scholz

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2018-10-24

Total Pages: 361

ISBN-13: 1317845080

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The part played by the Brazilian tropical timber industry in deforesting the Amazon region has not been studied very much. This book describes the expansion of the timber industry in the Brazilian federal state of Para since the 1960s, when Amazon development became an important item on the government's agenda.