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The Value of Timber and Non-timber Forest Products
2019In this chapter, the disparity in value between the marketable values of forests and the main alternative land-uses is discussed. This results from the low value of logs and, especially in the tropics the low proportion of commercially usable log volume. Thus the returns on investing in sustainable forest management and the establishment of plantations
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Modern Trends and New Timber Products in the Timber Industry
South African Forestry Journal, 1972There is a trend throughout the world not only to look for new uses for wood as it is, there is a large variety ranging through houses, furniture, toys, rayon and alcohol but to reduce the costs and to improve the reliability of already known products and to develop new, more economical processes.
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Implications of the 1970 Timber Review for Trade in Timber Products
American Journal of Agricultural Economics, 1973INCREASING prices for wood products in the United States, particularly softwood lumber and plywood prices, have generated much concern among administration officials and congressmen worried especially about the impact on the nation's building program. This concern is intensified as the nation faces the difficult question of how to increase the longer ...
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2001
Trees are an extremely valuable and an often over-exploited and endangered natural resource of timber, fuel and numerous non-wood forest products (Wickens, 1991). Following the primary conversion of the felled trees into manageable forms, they provide timber, i.e. wood other than fuelwood, for construction, carpentry and joinery purposes.
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Trees are an extremely valuable and an often over-exploited and endangered natural resource of timber, fuel and numerous non-wood forest products (Wickens, 1991). Following the primary conversion of the felled trees into manageable forms, they provide timber, i.e. wood other than fuelwood, for construction, carpentry and joinery purposes.
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Sustainability of the Supply of Timber and Non-timber Forest Products
2019Although forest sustainability is as much about biodiversity and the environment as it is about forest products, the latter are both the largest source of forest-based revenue and employment in many countries and a major driver of deforestation and forest degradation.
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Environmentally Sound Timber Production
1998Abstract Many of those who hope to arrest the loss of threatened habitats in Latin America by promoting sustainable development of selected forest resources, like latex and aguaje, staunchly resist any form of timber harvesting. Their aversion to the latter activity is easy to understand since, for many years, most of the region’s ...
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