Russia’s forests in a global economy: how consumption drives environmental change
| Autor: | Joshua P. Newell, John Simeone |
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| Rok vydání: | 2014 |
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| Zdroj: | Eurasian Geography and Economics. 55:37-70 |
| ISSN: | 1938-2863 1538-7216 |
| Popis: | The forests of Russia comprise roughly one-fifth of Earth’s total forest cover and one-quarter of its remaining “frontier” forests. The quality (i.e. natural productivity) of these forests continues to decline, however, with timber harvest a major underlying cause. Efforts to ameliorate forest degradation have been production centric, with a focus on the infusion of technology to improve manufacturing capacity, revision of the Forest code for better forest governance, and strategies to control illegal logging. However, consumption also drives forest change. Using production and trade flow data from 1946 to 2012, this paper assesses the state of Russia’s forest resources and demonstrates how sweeping changes ushered in by perestroika and globalization have forged a highly export-dependent forest sector. Once consumed internally (approx. 90% of total production), wood from Russia’s forests is now a global resource – the country annually exports approximately two-thirds of its sawnwood production. In trackin... |
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