Global Concerns for Forest Resource Utilization Sustainable Use and Management [Paperback]

This book is a collection of papers presented at the international symposium on forest sector analysis held in Miyazaki, Japan, in 1998. It is structured with three themes: understanding global forest sector issues, discussing the contribution of modeling efforts to forest sector analysis, and discussing the role of Japanese forest policy in a global sense. The most important features are the case studies using various types of forest sector models. From a modeling perspective, changes in modeling efforts include more detail of spatial and multiple market levels, intergenerational welfare concerns, non-market valuation issues, and explicit treatment of the uncertainty inherent in both the policy process and in the biophysical systems. The reader of this book will benefit not only from presentation of forest utilization issues in different nations, but also from the interrelatedness of the theory and application of forest sector modeling.Selected Papers from the International Symposium of the Foresea Miyazaki 1998Contributors. Acknowledgements. Preface. Part 1: Understanding Global Forest Sector Issue. Global Forest Products and Forest Products Trade; R.M. Martin. Challenges for China's Forest Resource Management and Utilization in the 21st Century; W.D. Lu, et al. Selling Clean Air; M. Rojas. Sustainable Forestry; B. Wilson, S. Wang. Chilean Forestry; G. Paredes V. The Development Strategies of Forest Resource and Forest Industries in Korea; B.I. Yoo. Socio-Economic Importance of Eucalyptus Plantations in Morocco; A. Khattabi. Cameroons' Logging Industry; R.E. Atyi. The Economic and Environmental Impacts of Biofuel Taxes on Heating Plants in Sweden; R. Br?nnlund, et al3U