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Showing 1 to 20 of 128 for “"forest products"”.
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An Examination of Appalachian Forest Products Exports
… added export opportunities for the hardwood products manufacturing industry. By studying current industry practices and trends, we can better understand the opportunities hardwood lumber businesses have exploited in the past and could do so today. The study found that opportunities exist for …
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Non-Timber Forest Products Marketing Systems and Market Players in Southwest Virginia: A Case Study of Craft, Medicinal and Herbal, Specialty Wood, and Edible Forest Products
Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are important in rural southwest Virginia as a source of household sustenance and supplemental income. The trade in NTFPs from this region is centuries old and now helps supply growing worldwide demands. Although marketing is a vital part of optimizing the value …
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Willingness to pay for eco-labelled forest products in Northern Ireland
… of market and non-market benefits, but rising deforestation, contributed to by pressures on landowners to clear forested areas to use as pasture and arable land, may cause the irrevocable loss of these benefits. To combat this, there is a need to encourage landowners to create or retain wooded …
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Short-run impacts of a value added tax on forest products
… impacts of a value added tax upon private forest management. A literature review investigates the theoretical economic impacts of a VAT and experience with the tax in other countries. Then supply and demand functions in both the southern pine sawtimber stumpage and new single-facility …
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Breaking down barriers: Market opportunities for Appalachian forest products in Central America
… strengths and weaknesses of Appalachian wood products sales in Central America. In the future, there may be a greater need for international forest products in Central America due to increasing population size, tourism, and deforestation. Potential market opportunities for Appalachian forest …
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Exploring The Market Potential Of Non-Timber Forest Products In The United States
… focuses on market opportunities for Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs), and the challenges and opportunities associated with their commercialization, based on the following questions: (1) What are the barriers and enabling factors affecting the value chains of NTFPs, and what are the …
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Non-timber Forest Products, Gender, and Households in Nicaragua: A Commodity Chain Analysis
… of gender, households, and the non-timber forest product market. Based around the concept of commodity chain analysis, this research examines each stage in two non-timber forest products', straw brooms and coco baskets, life cycles from extraction to final sale. The first objective of this …
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The Management of National Forests of Eastern United States for Non-Timber Forest Products
Many products are harvested from the forests of the United States in addition to timber. These non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are plants, parts of plants, or fungi that are harvested from within and on the edges of natural, disturbed or managed forests. Often, NTFPs are harvested from public …
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A linear programming approach to minimizing wood procurement costs for integrated forest products firms
… of the technique to problems inherent in the forest management decision making process. A case study of an integrated forest products firm with the objective of minimizing the present value cost of wood procurement over a 20 year study is solved by a computer using the firm's present and three …
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Determination of demand and supply in Virginia's primary forest products markets: an econometric study
… estimating consumption of Virginia's primary forest products was provided. Sawlog, veneer log, and pulpwood markets and their interrelationships were described using a system of 15 simultaneous equations and identities. The two stage least squares regression technique was used to determine …
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Impact of corporate orientation of information technology adoption in the United States forest products industry
… systems (the Internet) in the United States forest products industry (specifically, the lumber sector) and the extent to which organizational orientation within the industry supports the development. Following an extensive literature review, a conceptual model that represents the synthesis of …
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Strategic change and the coevolution of industry-university relationships : evidence from the forest products industry
… trajectories of nine European and North American forest products companies, distilling four generic strategies, and linking those strategies to each company's university relationships as judged by publications records, academic trajectories of the company's personnel, and interviews with company …
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Adoption of Bamboo in Ghana's Forest Products Industry: An Investigation of the Principal Exporters and Institutions
… stock of traditional timber species for Ghana's forest products industry. First, the CEOs of the leading exporters of tertiary and panel products in the industry were canvassed to assess the current situation. Using descriptive statistics, it was discovered that the companies studied consume logs …
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Can we see the forest for the trees? : a case study of marketing non-timber forest products
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
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An analysis of the capital budgeting sophistication of primary forest products firms in the Eastern United States
The investment decision-making techniques, financing methods and equipment needs of 1,818 sawmills and pallet manufacturers in the Eastern United States were studied. Information was gathered using a mail survey and 581 usable responses were received. It was found that discounted cash flow …
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Integrated harvesting systems to incorporate the recovery of logging residues with the harvesting of conventional forest products
… was used to model seven harvesting systems on forest stands in five participating countries. The simulation results indicated that on good terrain with short skidding distances mechanical felling and grapple skidding was the best available method to deliver full trees to a landing. Processing …
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