Global Forest Sector - Changes, Practices, and Prospects

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.

List of contents

Unit 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. Unit 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. Unit 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. Unit 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. Unit V: Bringing it all together. What Now, Mr. Jones? Some Thoughts about Today’s Forest Sector and Tomorrow’s Great Leap Forwards

About the author

Eric Hansen, Rajat Panwar, Richard Vlosky

Product details

• Authors: Eric (Oregon State University Hansen, Eric Panwar Hansen
• Assisted by: Eric Hansen (Editor), Hansen Eric (Editor), Rajat Panwar (Editor), Panwar Rajat (Editor), Richard Vlosky (Editor), Vlosky Richard (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.03.2017
• EAN: 9781138075818
• ISBN: 978-1-138-07581-8
• No. of pages: 480
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > Heat, energy and power station engineering; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Agriculture / Forestry, Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques, Environmental Monitoring, Forestry and silviculture