Long-term effects of eliminating illegal logging on the world forest industries, trade, and inventory

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 10, Issue 7-8, 2008, Pages 480-490

  Li, Ruhong ^a   Buongiorno, J ^a   Turner, J A ^b   Zhu, S ^a   Prestemon, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b SCION   (New Zealand)

^c USDA FOREST SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Illegal logging; International trade; Modeling; Policy; Wood products

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRODUCTION; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; FOREST INVENTORIES; FOREST SECTORS; GERMANY; ILLEGAL LOGGING; INDONESIA; INTERNATIONAL TRADE; LOGGED TIMBER; LONG-TERM EFFECTS; MODELING; POLICY; ROUNDWOOD; TIMBER SUPPLY; UNITED STATES; VALUE ADDED; WOOD PRODUCTS;

CONSUMER PRODUCTS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HARVESTING; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; LAWS AND LEGISLATION; LOGGING (FORESTRY); TIMBER; WOOD;

FORESTRY;

COMMERCE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; FORESTS; HARVESTING; LEGISLATION; LOGGING; WOOD;

EID: 50549094485     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2008.04.003     Document Type: Article

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