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1.
Timber Booms and Institutional Breakdown in Southeast Asia
Contributors:
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press 2001
Subjects:
Forest Management--Environmental Aspects--Asia, Southeastern
Forest Policy--Environmental Aspects--Asia, Southeastern
Logging--Economic Aspects--Asia, Southeastern
Timber--Economic Aspects--Asia, Southeastern
Rent (Economic Theory)
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...haveargued that the international timber trade may help protect tropicalforests...Others argue that the impact of the timber trade on tropicaldeforestation is small...thatthe international tropical timber trade is not a major source of tropical...
2.
Logs for Capital: The Timber Industry and Capitalist Enterprise in the Nineteenth Century
Contributors:
Publisher:
Greenwood Press 1992
Subjects:
Lumber Trade--History--19th Century
Capitalism--History--19th Century
International Business Enterprises--History--19th Century
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...Parliament on the Subjects of the Timber Trade and CommercialRelations, 1820...the House ofLords Relative to the Timber Trade by a British Merchant, 1821...Application to the Present State of the Timber Trade, 1821.Report of the Supervisor...
3.
The Timber Bubble That Burst: Government Policy and the Bailout of 1984
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford US 1990
Subjects:
Lumber Trade--Northwest, Pacific
Lumber Trade--Government Policy--United States
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...Prices,Employment, and Trade in Northwest Forest Industries...An Analysis of the Timber Situation in the United...00281985). U.S. Timber Production, Trade, Consumption, and PriceStatistics...An Analysis of the Timber Situation in the United...
4.
Agriculture, Trade, and the Environment: Discovering and Measuring the Critical Linkages
Contributors:
Publisher:
Westview Press 1996
Subjects:
Sustainable Agriculture
International Trade--Environmental Aspects
Commercial Policy--Environmental Aspects
Environmental Policy
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...Aylward, andJ. T. Bishop. "Timber Trade, TradePolicies, and Environmental...Equilibrium Theory of North-South Trade." In Essaysin Honor of Kenneth...Chichilnisky, G. North-South Trade and the Global Environment. The...
5.
Global Restructuring and Land Rights in Ghana: Forest Food Chains, Timber, and Rural Livelihoods
Contributors:
Publisher:
Nordic African Institute 1999
Subjects:
Land Use, Rural--Law And Legislation--Ghana
Land Tenure--Law And Legislation--Ghana
Forest Conservation--Law And Legislation--Ghana
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...201Cillegal” felling of timber provides large incomes for the...and the opening of avenues in the timber,trade many youths have become independent...in the forest participate inthe timber trade by showing chainsaw operators where...
6.
Choctaws at the Crossroads: The Political Economy of Class and Culture in the Oklahoma Timber Region
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press 2000
Subjects:
Choctaw Indians--Oklahoma--Economic Conditions
Choctaw Indians--Oklahoma--Social Conditions
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...problems ofwhite intruders, "desperadoes," and railroad interests who illegally depre­dated tribal timber and stone. Trade and intercourse laws, both tribal andfederal, were inadequate to keep intruders out. It was necessary during...
7.
Neolithic Scotland: Timber, Stone, Earth and Fire
Contributors:
Publisher:
Edinburgh University Press 2006
Subjects:
Excavations (Archaeology)--Scotland
Megalithic Monuments--Scotland
Neolithic Period--Scotland
Scotland--Antiquities
Scotland--History--To 1057
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FIGURE 6.42 Rectangular timber structures from the fourth millennium BC(Source: Barclay and Brophy...significant monument complex in its own right, was on animportant trade route linking Ireland and Wessex (Atkinson 1956: 174–5...
8.
Free Trade and Liberal England, 1846-1946
Contributors:
Publisher:
Clarendon Press 1997
Subjects:
Liberal Party (Great Britain)--History
Free Trade--Great Britain--History
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...Norman.Brown, Board of Trade, passim; J. Potter, The British Timber Duties, 1815-60, Economica...005D, Hints on the Timber Trade (1821)...engaged in the Baltic timber trade. In his retrospective...
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Trading beyond the Mountains: The British Fur Trade on the Pacific, 1793-1843
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of British Columbia Press 1997
Subjects:
Simpson, George, Sir, 1786 or 7-1860
Hudson's Bay Company--History
Fur Trade--British Columbia--History
Fur Trade--Northwest Coast of North America--History
British Columbia--History
Northwest Coast of North America--History
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...particularly to theopening of a Trade in those Articles.26It...the newer export tradesin timber were still in their infancy...reason forwanting to push this trade:With regard to the Sandwich Islands Timber trade . . . we think that a largestock...
10.
Free Trade under Fire
Contributors:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press 2009 (3rd edition)
Subjects:
Free Trade--United States
United States--Commercial Policy
Globalization
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...not only are policies that reduce trade in forest productsineffective in reducing deforestation, limiting trade in forest products mayexacerbate the problem. Without the timber trade, which raises the valueof forests...
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