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Author : Aying Liu
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Total Pages : 30 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Wood Trade Liberalization and Long Term Forestry Development in China written by Aying Liu and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Meng Zhang
Publisher : Culture, Place, and Nature
ISBN 13 : 9780295748870
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (488 download)
Download or read book Timber and Forestry in Qing China written by Meng Zhang and published by Culture, Place, and Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Qing period (1644-1912), China's population tripled, and the flurry of new development generated unprecedented demand for timber. Standard environmental histories have often depicted this as an era of reckless deforestation, akin to the resource misuse that devastated European forests at the same time. This comprehensive new study shows that the reality was more complex: as old-growth forests were cut down, new economic arrangements emerged to develop renewable timber resources. Historian Meng Zhang traces the trade routes that connected population centers of the Lower Yangzi Delta to timber supplies on China's southwestern frontier. She documents innovative property rights systems and economic incentives that convinced landowners to invest years in growing trees. Delving into rare archives to reconstruct business histories, she considers both the formal legal mechanisms and the informal interactions that helped balance economic profit with environmental management. Of driving concern were questions of sustainability: How to maintain a reliable source of timber across decades and centuries? And how to sustain a business network across a thousand miles? This carefully constructed study makes a major contribution to Chinese economic and environmental history and to world-historical discourses on resource management, early modern commercialization, and sustainable development.
Download or read book Chinese Trade and Investment and Its Impacts on Forests written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: China's diplomatic and economic presence in Africa has grown considerably in recent years. From the establishment of the Forum on ChinaAfrica Cooperation (FOCAC) and efforts to strengthen diplomatic, cultural and economic relations with African nations to the rapid growth in Chinese foreign direct investment (FDI) and bilateral trade, this relationship is likely to continue to play a defining role in African economies. These trends are important for African nations that see this relationship as an opportunity to catalyse much-needed investments in infrastructure and industry, and to stimulate job creation and exports. At the same time, however, it has raised concerns among civil society and traditional development partners alike, which question whether the limited transparency or conditionalities in lending will undermine long-term development through increased indebtedness and competition with African industries or by slowing advances in governance. The research community has taken a keen interest in this dynamic and has begun to shed light on its implications for economic development in the global South. 1 A number of recent studies also explore how China's growing wood-processing sector is shaping the global timber trade and related impacts in source countries. 2 However, limited attention has been given to understanding how growing Sino-African trade and investment is shaping forests through extra-sectoral drivers (e.g. in the agricultural or mining sectors) or how broader trends in economic cooperation and diplomacy are shaping resource access and related impacts. The aim of this report, and the project in which it is embedded, is to shed light on this debate ...
Author : Talwar Sabanna
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Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
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Author : Shujie Yao
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Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Technical Inefficiencies of Grain Production in China written by Shujie Yao and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph Buongiorno
Publisher : Academic Press
ISBN 13 : 0121413624
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (214 download)
Download or read book The Global Forest Products Model written by Joseph Buongiorno and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2003-02-24 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Global Forest Products Model (GFPM) book provides a complete introduction to this widely applied computer model. The GFPM is a dynamic economic equilibrium model that is used to predict production, consumption, trade, and prices of 14 major forest products in 180 interacting countries. The book thoroughly documents the methods, data, and computer software of the model, and demonstrates the model's usefulness in addressing international economic and environmental issues. The Global Forest Products Model is written by an international multi-disciplinary team and is ideal for graduate students and professionals in forestry, natural resource economics, and related fields. It explains trends in world forest industries in the simplest terms by explaining the economic theory underlying the model. It describes six applications of the GFPM, three of which were commissioned by the Food Agriculture of the United Nations, the USDA Forest Service, and New Zealand Research. The authors show how to apply the model to real issues such as the effects of the Asian economic crisis on the forest sector, the effects of eliminating tariffs on international trade and production, and the international effects of national environmental policies. They provide complete explanations on how to use the GFPM software, prepare the data, make the forecasts, and summarize the results with tables and graphs. Comprehensive, and rigorous description of the world forestry sector Written by an international multi-disciplinary team Thorough description of data and methods In-depth applications to modern economic and policy issues Detailed documentation of the computer software Suitable for students, researchers, and decision makers
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Trade
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Total Pages : 248 pages
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Download or read book United States-China Trade Relations and Renewal of China's Most-favored-nation Status written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Trade and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Uma J. Lele
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351507303
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Managing a Global Resource written by Uma J. Lele and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-12 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid loss of tropical forests, particularly in the developing world, has been a global concern since the late 1980s and has prompted a variety of international initiatives to save the forests. In 1991, the World Bank responded to global concerns and to criticism by nongovernmental organizations by forming a conservation-oriented forest strategy. Managing a Global Resource is an outgrowth of the independent evaluation conducted by the World Bank's Operations Evaluation Department and discusses how effectively that strategy was implemented. In this detailed investigation, Uma J. Lele explores why the loss of forests and biodiversity has been so rapid in some developing countries (Brazil, Indonesia, and Cameroon) and not in others (China, India, and Costa Rica). She assesses future prospects for conservation in these six countries by critically examining their policies, institutional arrangements, and emerging national and international instruments to conserve forests and biodiversity. Together these six countries account for 25 percent of the world's forest cover and 44 percent of the world's population. Managing a Global Resource presents case studies of the forest sectors of each country in the context of overall development policies, interest groups, and governance issues. Lele's investigation finds a fundamental divergence in forest-rich countries between the global objectives of conservation and the local objectives of development and private profit. In some forest-poor countries, in contrast, natural resource loss has led the countries on their own accord to adopt a variety of conservation-oriented policies and programs. Despite the greater congruence between the global and national objectives in these forest-poor countries, competing demands on their resources and the constraints on their policies, institutions, and human capital make it difficult for them to affect forest and biodiversity conservation. This volume makes it clear that
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Total Pages : 346 pages
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Download or read book National Research Initiative Competitive Grants Program written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821348413
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (484 download)
Download or read book The World Bank Forest Strategy written by and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report assesses progress since the World Bank first issued its comprehensive Forest Strategy in 1991. It finds that the effectiveness of the strategy has been modest, and the sustainability of its impact is uncertain. The Report identifies seven factors that would make the World Bank forest strategy more pertinent to current circumstances as well as strengthening its ability to achieve its strategic objectives in the forest sector. It recommends that the World Bank use its global reach to address mechanisms for mobilisation of concessional international resources outside its normal lending activities. It also advises the World Bank to be proactive in establishing partnerships with all relevant stakeholders, governments, the private sector, and civil society to meet both its country and global roles. The focus on primary tropical moist forests should be broadened to include all types of natural forests of national and global value. The report suggests that illegal logging needs to be reduced through the promotion of improved governance and enforcement. Other recommendations are to give consideration to forest issues in all relevant sector activity and macroeconomic work, address the employment needs of all poor people while continuing to protect the rights of indigenous people, and to realign the World Bank resources with their objectives in the forest sector.
Author : Forestry Outlook Study for Africa
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
ISBN 13 : 9789251049105
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Forestry Outlook Study for Africa written by Forestry Outlook Study for Africa and published by Food & Agriculture Org.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This regional report examines the emerging trends and considers the opportunities and challenges involved in promoting the contribution of the forest sector to Africa's sustainable development over the next two decades, including policy and institutional, demographic, economic, technological and environmental factors.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Trade
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Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book U.S.-China Trade Relations and Renewal of China's Most-favored-nation Status written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Trade and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on International Trade
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Total Pages : 88 pages
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Download or read book Agriculture Negotiations in the WTO After Seattle written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance. Subcommittee on International Trade and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Arild Angelsen
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 43 pages
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Download or read book Forest Cover Change in Space and Time written by Arild Angelsen and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents a framework for analyzing tropical deforestation and reforestation using the von Thunen model as its starting point: land is allocated to the use which yields the highest rent, and the rents of various land uses are determined by location. Forest cover change therefore becomes a question of changes in rent of forest versus non-forest use. While this is a simple and powerful starting point, more intriguing issues arise when this is applied to analyze real cases. An initial shift in the rent of one particular land use generates feedbacks which affect the rent of all land uses. For example, a new technology in extensive agriculture should make this land use more profitable and lead to more forest clearing, but general equilibrium effects (changes in prices and local wages) can modify or even reverse this conclusion. Another issue is how a policy change or a shift in broader market, technological, and institutional forces will affect various land use rents. The paper deals with three such areas: technological progress in agriculture, land tenure regimes, and community forest management. The second part of the paper links the von Thunen framework to the forest transition theory. The forest transition theory describes a sequence over time where a forested region goes through a period of deforestation before the forest cover eventually stabilizes and starts to increase. This sequence can be seen as a systematic pattern of change in the agricultural and forest land rents over time. Increasing agricultural rent leads to high rates of deforestation. The slow-down of deforestation and eventual reforestation is due to lower agricultural rents (the economic development path) and higher forest rent (the forest scarcity path). Various forces leading to these changes are discussed and supported by empirical evidence from different tropical regions.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
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Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book USDA's Export and Market Promotion Programs written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Luis Guasch
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780821347591
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (475 download)
Download or read book Managing the Regulatory Process written by J. Luis Guasch and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '...developing countries, complementing their far-reaching privatization programs, are engaged in deregulating various sectors of their economies and devising new regulatory frameworks for others, particularly the utilities sectors.' As economies become more open, pressures on countries to become more competitive drive the call for regulatory reform to reduce costs and foster increased productivity, competitiveness, and growth. This report provides an overview of the costs and benefits of regulation throughout the world. It provides case histories of regulation in different countries, developed and developing and in various sectors, such as, transportation, utilities, and power. It presents different strategies that were employed. Furthermore, it identifies lessons learned and lays the foundations for a best practice scenario for other countries to adopt. While the challenges to regulatory reform are considerable, so are the efforts that developing countries are making to face them. These lessons, when properly adapted to each country's own environment, can significantly increase the likelihood of effective regulation.
Author : Pacific Northwest Research Station (Portland, Or.)
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Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book A Year in Review for the Pacific Northwest Research Station written by Pacific Northwest Research Station (Portland, Or.) and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
