The study attempts to fill a gap in Malaysian forestry economics, an area relatively less probed compared to the other important primary commodities of Malaysia. The core of the thesis are two econometric studies. The first concerns estimating supply and demand elasticities of the three main Malaysian wood products sawlogs, sawnwood and plywood. Demand is split up into export and home demand to...

Modeling forest and range land development in rural locations, with examples from eastern Oregon Jeffrey D. Kline a,∗, Alissa Moses b, Gary J. Lettman b, David L. Azuma c a USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, Forestry Sciences Laboratory, 3200 SW Jefferson Way, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA b Oregon Department of Forestry, Salem, 2600 State Street Salem, OR 97310, USA c USDA For...

the major purpose of this study is to assess the perception of managers in the forest, range and watershedorganization. it is an applied study by using descriptive–correlative method. a questionnaire was developedand data collected from 105 respondents. the validity and reliability of questionnaires was verified. theresults of study show that there was a relationship between educational level, ...

For the last 50 year, forestry operations have become more and more mechanized. In modern forestry in Europe two machines are typically used; a harvester that fells, debranches and cross-cuts the trees into logs and a forwarder that transports them to the nearest road. These machines are technically advanced and quite expensive, but have a very high production rate. In fact, the productivity is...

Purpose At present, China’s forestry development is mainly driven by the traditional production factors such as labor force, land resources and capital thus top priority of to optimize factors. Scientific effective input has a significant role in promoting industry. Given that actual not clear, accuracy industry may be slightly affected. Based on monitoring project collective forest tenure refo...