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- Product code: 18408
- ISBN: 1855731908,
ISBN13: 9781855731905,
344 pages, hardback
Published by Woodhead Publishing on 2001
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Description of The International Timber Trade |
Wood and wood products are essential to large areas of the world economy and yet there has until now been no single definitive reference source to which those new to or requiring a strategic overview of the industry could turn for a comprehensive picture of the market chain from forest to consumer. The international timber trade provides a detailed overview of the entire timber and timber products business.
It is arranged in three sections:
Chapters 1 to 3 provide a background starting with an historical perspective, an overview of the worldwide forest resource and going to examine the properties of wood, types of products, trends in production and consumption and uses.
Chapters 4, 5 and 6 examine the role of wood industries and wood products in the global economy and provide an overview of world trade both by commodity groups and by country, as well as a detailed analysis of the main trading patterns and the trends, both at the inter-continental and inter-regional levels.
The third section, chapters 7 to 10, looks at the structure of trade, market and market-related features, environmental factors such as forestry management, sustainability and certification, waste and recycling and energy and climate change, as well as offering an outlook for the industry in the 21st century.
Written by one of the leading international authorities on the timber trade, The international timber trade is essential reading for a wide range of interested groups including managers in the timber industry and trade, the financial community with interests in the sector, academics and students in forestry management and related studies, government agencies and their advisers in helping to develop policies for the sector and international trade, and finally those working in international development organisations and in national and international non-governmental bodies.
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Contents of The International Timber Trade |
Introduction
1. Historical perspective
- Early history
- Development of trade in wood products
2. Global forest and wood reserves
- Main features and trends
- Principal forest types and their distribution
- Extent and composition of the world's forests
- Ownership and management of the forest resource
- The wood harvest
3. Production and consumption of wood products
- Properties of wood
- Types of product
- Patterns and trends of production and consumption
- Uses of wood products
4. The place of wood industries and wood products in the global economy
- Wood products in national economies
- Wood products in international commodity trade
5. Overview of world trade in wood products
- Distribution of world trade in wood products by commodity groups
- Distribution of world trade in wood products by country groups
- Changing pattern of commodity composition in trade
- Trends in trade
- Trade in added value wood products
6. Trade patterns and trends
- Methodology for creating a trade flow database
- General trade patterns
- Trade flow patterns of individual wood products
- Major changes in trade flows
7. The structure of trade
- Trading structures and corporate players
- Major trading nations
- Emerging and declining suppliers and markets
8. Market-and trade-related figures
- Costs, prices and exchange rates
- Futures markets
-Tariff and non-tariff barriers
- Globalisation and regional integration
- International institutions concerned with wood products
9. Trade and the environment
- Deforestation, afforestation and reforestation
- Sustainability and certification
- Waste and recycling
- Energy and climate change
10. Past, present and future
- Highlights from chapters 1 to 9
- The outlook
- Implications for trade
- Concluding remarks
Appendix 1: List of selected international organisations concerned with the trade in wood products
Appendix 2: Definitions
Index
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