Forest sustainability and trade policies

Shimamoto, Mihoko

doi:10.1016/j.ecolecon.2007.10.019

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“…Well-established from global forest reporting, wood consumption is also stimulated by economic development, with major wood consumers being those among most developed countries [ 11 ]. Global concern for the sustainability of forest management in view of intensification strategies [ 21 ] and international trade [ 22 ] questions this influence of economic development on wood drain from forests, and whether it may slower or even thwart trends in wood accumulation across European forests. Conversely, can signs of an anticipative—or Boserupian —forest development ([ 17 ], see Box 1 ) be identified that would sustain increases in wood availability?…”

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Inflation of wood resources in European forests: The footprints of a big-bang

Bontemps

2021

PLoS ONE

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The current increase in European forest resources forms a singularity across the globe. Whether this trend will persist, and how biological and economic trends feature it form crucial issues to green economy challenges and C sequestration. The present screening of Forest Europe 2015 statistics explored the features, inertia and limits of this expansion, and its relationships with countries’ development, forest management and trade, intense in this area of the world. Persisting footprint of past demographic pressure on forests was identified, with opposed traces on their area and growing stock density. Steady growing stock (GS) increases, proportional to GS, not density-limited, and sustained by forest area increases, supported the view of an inflationary forest dynamic. Economic development and liberalism fostered both forest exploitation and production, yielding no significant impact on GS changes. Wood exports exerted a tension on forest exploitation and GS changes, thus lowering GS inflation but providing a resource security margin in the face of expected climate threats. Conflicting a common view, GS inflation and moderate felling-to-increment ratios make increased use of wood resources and C sequestration reconcilable, and GS expansion timely for ongoing EU forest policy processes. Anticipated adverse impacts of ongoing climate change were not clearly identified in these statistics.

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Inflation of wood resources in European forests: The footprints of a big-bang

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2021

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“…The second is that the impacts of the factors influencing international trade on logging. Shimamoto [6] thinks imposing import and export duties and domestic price support policy can maintain the sustainable development of forest resource. Capistrano and Kiker [7] and Kahn and McDonald [8] concluded from their researches that there is a positive correlation between foreign debt and logging.…”

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Foreign Trade and Forest Resource Dynamic

Deng¹,

Chen²,

Xu³

2021

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The relationship of foreign trade and forest degradation is an important research topic in trade and environment. Based on dynamic optimal control method, the interrelation of forest resources' stock dynamic and foreign trade, market power and foreign debt or asset, is exploited. At the same time, the condition and change law of forest degradation is analyzed. Pontryagin Maximum Principle demonstrate a character which if shadow social price of forest resource has a higher price than, demand of forest resource exceed the supply, forest resource decreases, hence lead to forest degradation, even extinction. Some conditions are satisfied, the stock of forest resource and trade terms change in the same direction, and the stock of forest resources and market power varied in same direction. Existing foreign debts, and the international capital market, stock of forest resources will not be dried up.

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“…Considering all the various factors together, we can reasonably speculate that an oligopolistic structure may exist in the international wood trade market. Shimamoto (2010) indicates that the leading exporters of forestry products often exhibit demand oligopoly in the factor market and supply oligopolyin the product market. Hence, a change in the amount produced in some industries affects the price in importing countries, which means these oligopolistic companies may have strong market power in the trade market.…”

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Market Power in the Log and Lumber Import Market in Japan

Chang

Inoue

2013

Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research

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Japan imports rather than exports forestry products even though it has ample forestry resources. Moreover, the leading exporters of forest products often have strong market power in the trade market of forestry products. The possibility of incomplete competition in the Japanese wood import market can also be suspected from the fact that the structure of imports of logs and lumber has remained unchanged over the past 10 years. However, there has been limited empirical economic analysis of the timber trade market to support this assertion.In this study, we examine the market power of the primary exporting countries in the Japanese log and lumber market based on the residual demand model. We analysed the import data of forestry products from 1988 to 2010 with respect to every main item exported to Japan. The analysis shows that Canada has market power over several items of logs in the Japanese import market, while the United States and Canada have market power over several items of lumber. The study also clarifies that imperfect competition exists in the Japanese timber import market and that the timber price in Japan is partially determined by the exporting countries.

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Forest sustainability and trade policies

Cited by 8 publications

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Inflation of wood resources in European forests: The footprints of a big-bang

Inflation of wood resources in European forests: The footprints of a big-bang

Foreign Trade and Forest Resource Dynamic

Market Power in the Log and Lumber Import Market in Japan

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