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The global forest sector : changes, practices, and prospects / edited by Eric Hansen, Rajat Panwar, Richard Vlosky.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Forest products industry.
- Globalization.
- Forest products industry--Forecasting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (464 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book covers a wide array of topics that have relevance to the global forest products. This managerial view, based on up-to-date scientific research is a very important tool for forming the big picture of the current and future state of the global forest industry. This is the first book of its kind written by a global network of leaders in the field of forest products, marketing, and business development in the forest products sector in academia and industry-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Contributors
- Section I. Changing context of the global forest sector
- Understanding and Managing Change in a Global Forest Sector
- The Impact of Globalization on Forest Users : Trends and Opportunities
- Section II. Changes in product categories and individual markets
- Markets and Market Forces for Lumber
- Markets and Market Forces for Secondary Wood Products
- Markets and Market Forces for Pulp and Paper Products
- New Products and Product Categories in the Forest Sector
- The Chinese Era
- Russia in the Global Forest Sector
- Section III. The forest sector within an environmental paradigm
- Environmental Activism and the Global Forest Sector
- Implementing Sustainability in the Forestry Sector : Toward the Convergence of Public and Private Forest Policy
- Green Building and the Forest Sector
- An Assessment of Global Wood-based Bioenergy
- Section IV. Capability development and strategic imperatives for the forest sector
- The Current and Future Role of Information Technology in the Forest Sector
- Cross-cultural Sales, Marketing, and Management Issues in the Global Forest Sector
- Corporate Social Responsibility in the Global Forest Sector
- Innovation in the Global Forest Sector
- Strategic Orientations in the Global Forest Sector
- Section V. Bringing it all together
- What Now, Mr. Jones? : Some Thoughts about Today's Forest Sector and Tomorrow's Great Leap Forwards.
- Notes:
- A CRC title, part of the Taylor and Francis imprint, a member of the Taylor and Francis Group, the academic division of T&F Informa plc.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781040198926
- 1040198929
- 9780429111662
- 0429111665
- 9781439879276
- 1439879273
- OCLC:
- 863821615
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