Analysis of trade in illegally harvested timber: Accounting for trade via third party countries

Forest Policy and Economics

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 600-607

  Dieter, Matthias ^a,b  

^a Institut fur Okonomie der Forst und Holzwirtschaft (Institute of Forest Based Sector Economics)

^b THÜNEN INSTITUTE OF CLIMATE SMART AGRICULTURE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Illegally harvested timber; Input output analysis; Timber trade

Indexed keywords

BILATERAL TRADE; DOMESTIC SUPPLIES; DOMESTIC USE; FINISHED WOOD PRODUCTS; ILLEGALLY HARVESTED TIMBER; INDONESIA; INDUSTRIAL WOOD; INPUT-OUTPUT; INPUT-OUTPUT-ANALYSIS; LARGE POPULATION; MALAYSIA; MYANMARS; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; RECOVERED PAPER; SIMPLE APPROACH; THIRD PARTIES; TIMBER TRADE; WASTE WOOD; WOOD FIBRE; WOOD PRODUCTION;

INTERNATIONAL TRADE; METAL RECOVERY; TIMBER; WOOD PRODUCTS;

HARVESTING;

COMMERCE; FOREIGN TRADE; FORESTS; HARVESTING; METALS; RECOVERY; WOOD PRODUCTS;

EID: 70349947110     PISSN: 13899341     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2009.08.003     Document Type: Article

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