Global concerns for forest resource utilization : sustainable use and management : selected papers from the International Symposium of the FORESEA MIYAZAKI 1998

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. Front Matter....Pages i-1 Front Matter....Pages 3-3 Global Forest Products and Forest Products Trade....Pages 5-16 Challenges for China’s Forest Resource Management and Utilization in the 21st Century....Pages 17-22 Selling Clean Air....Pages 23-34 Sustainable Forestry....Pages 35-45 Chilean Forestry....Pages 47-62 The Development Strategies of Forest Resource and Forest Industries in Korea....Pages 63-71 Socio-Economic Importance of Eucalyptus Plantations in Morocco....Pages 73-82 Cameroon’s Logging Industry....Pages 83-93 The Economic and Environmental Impacts of Biofuel Taxes on Heating Plants in Sweden....Pages 95-111 End User or End User Oriented Timber Supply in A Mechanized Northern Coniferous Wood Chain....Pages 113-121 Employment Impact Multipliers and the Economic Role of Timber in the Small Forest Communities of Southeast Alaska....Pages 123-135 Emerging Human Values of Forest Resources....Pages 137-148 Front Matter....Pages 149-149 Forest Sector Modeling....Pages 151-168 Modeling the Global and Asia-Pacific Forest Sectors....Pages 169-182 Japanese Forest Sector Modeling....Pages 183-200 Modeling the North American Demand for Solid Wood Products with an Emphasis on Canada....Pages 201-215 A Model for the Siberian Timber Products Market....Pages 217-229 An Economic and Environmental Assessment of Asian Forest Sectors....Pages 231-242 The Economics of Carbon Emission and Sequestration in the Forestry Sector of Peninsular Malaysia....Pages 243-255 Biofuels and the Forest Sector....Pages 257-266 Front Matter....Pages 149-149 Have Forest Sector Models Changed Forest Policy in the United States....Pages 267-274 Impacts of South-East Asian Log Export Ban Policies on Japanese Plywood Market....Pages 275-286 Modelling Japanese Import Demand for European Construction Lumber....Pages 287-293 The Joint Production of Timber and Environmental Values....Pages 295-309 Paper Recycling....Pages 311-320 Front Matter....Pages 321-321 Current States of Japanese Forestry and Timber Trade....Pages 323-336 Japan’s Wood Products Import and Forest Sector....Pages 337-344 Change in Lumber Market and Behaviors of Lumber Producers in Japan....Pages 345-349 The Forest Planning System of Japan....Pages 351-361 Back Matter....Pages 363-366 Selected Papers from the International Symposium of the Foresea Miyazaki 1998