Overexploitation or sustainable management : action patterns of the tropical timber industry : the case of Pará (Brazil), 1960-1997 / Imme Scholz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Scholz, Imme, 1964-

Series:

GDI book series 1460-4175 ; no. 15.

GDI book series, 1460-4175 ; no. 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lumber trade--Environmental aspects--Brazil--Pará (State).

Lumber trade.

Logging--Environmental aspects--Brazil--Pará (State).

Logging.

Logging--Environmental aspects.

Lumber trade--Environmental aspects.

Brazil--Pará (State).

Forest management--Brazil--Pará (State).

Forest management.

Physical Description:

xviii, 459 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Portland, OR : F. Cass ; Bonn [Germany] : In association with the German Development Institute, 2001.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Statement of the Problem and Structure of the Study 1

1.1 Empirical and Theoretical Points of Departure 5

1.2 Preliminary Remarks on the Choice of the Field of Study 11

1.3 Structure of the Study 19

2 Determinants of Natural Resource Use: Theoretical Approaches from the Field of Economics and the State of Research 20

2.1 State of the Research: an Initial Overview 22

2.2 Sustainable Development 29

2.3 Environmental and Resource Economics 36

2.4 Ecological Economics 43

2.5 Economic Analyses of the Exploitation of Tropical Forests 60

2.5.1 Utilization of the Amazon Forest from the View of Ecological Economics: Edward Barbier 61

2.5.2 Natural-resource Extraction as an Economic Dead End: The Model of Alfredo Homma 63

2.5.3 Nutrient Mining on the Agrarian Frontier and Destruction of Tropical Forests: Studies by the World Bank and IMAZON 66

2.5.4 Tropical-timber Trade and Tropical-forest Protection: The Analysis Conducted by Edward Barbier's Working Group 76

2.5.5 Tropical-forest Exploitation and Protection from the View of Allocation Theory: Studies from the Kiel Institut fur Weltwirtschaft 80

3 Alternative Approaches to Economic Action from the Fields of Sociology and Evolutionary Economic Theory 83

3.1 Sociological Approaches to Economic Action 83

3.1.1 Rational Action and the Determinants of Social Action 84

3.1.2 Is Sociology "Blind to Nature"? Nature in Giddens' Theory of Structuration 96

3.2 Theories of Technical Change: Innovation, Evolutionary Processes, and Path Dependency 98

3.2.1 Systematic Overview and Basic Concepts 99

3.2.2 Economic Action as Action in Routines 106

3.2.3 The Process of Economic and Technical Change as an Evolutionary Process 111

3.3 Conclusions for the Methodological Approach Pursued by the Present Study 119

3.3.2 Stages and Sources Involved in the Empirical Study 130

4 Tropical Ecology and Sustainable Forestry 131

4.1 Features of Forest Ecosystems in the Tropics 134

4.2 Sustainable Forestry in the Tropics 143

4.3 Effects of Sustainable Tropical-forest Management on Company Management 157

4.4 Ecological Certification of Forest Management 160

5 The World Market for Tropical Timber 171

5.1 Quantitative Developments in the World Timber Market 172

5.2 Qualitative Developments in the World Timber Market 187

6 The Timber Industry in Para and in Brazil in the 1990s 194

6.1 The Economic Framework Conditions 197

6.2 The Timber Industry in Brazil and in Para 207

6.3 Roundwood Production 217

6.4 Sales 223

6.5 Environmental Regulation of Forest Utilization and Timber-processing 230

6.6 Innovation Pressure and Innovativeness 244

6.7 Preliminary Conclusions on the Dominant Action Patterns in the Timber Industry 265

7 Historical Reconstruction of the Development of Para's Timber Industry 266

7.1 The Economic Framework Conditions 269

7.2 Para's Timber Industry between the 1960s and 1980s 279

7.2.1 The 1960s 279

7.2.2 The 1970s and 1980s 284

7.2.3 The Development of Para's Timber Industry between 1959 and 1985, as Mirrored by Statistics 294

7.3 Roundwood Production 307

7.3.1 The 1950s and 1960s 307

7.3.2 The 1970s and 1980s 309

7.3.3 The Development of Roundwood Production between 1975 and 1991, as Mirrored by Statistics 312

7.4 Sales 317

7.4.1 The 1960s 317

7.4.2 The 1970s and 1980s 322

7.5 The Model for the Development of the Timber Sector 326

7.5.1 The 1960s 327

7.5.2 The 1970s 331

7.5.3 The 1980s 339

8 Patterns of Resource Utilization and Foreign Trade: Results of the Study and Conclusions 352

8.2 The Results Seen in their Theoretical Context 357

8.3 Action Options 366

9 Conclusions for Development Cooperation 373

9.1 Development Cooperation and Sustainable Development in Para 373

9.2 Promotion of a Sustainable Development of the Tropical-timber Industry 381

1 Annual Growth of Deforested Areas, 1978-96 16

2 Extension of Deforested Areas in the Amazon Federal States, 1975-96 17

3 The Finite Global Ecosystem of the Earth 54

4 Model of the Structuration of Social Action, after Giddens 89

1 Rubber Boom 42

2 Smallholder Agriculture and Ecology in the Amazon Region 135

3 Gross and Net Primary Production of Plants 140

1 Economic Paradigms of the Relation between Nature and Society in Development 34

2 Basic Data of Firms Interviewed in Para and Amazonas 126

3 Biomass Production and Losses in Forests 139.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 407-432).

ISBN:

0714651540

OCLC:

45582579