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Impacts of policy measures on the development of state-owned forests in Northeast China : Theoretical results and empirical evidence
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- Jiang, Xuemei (author)
- School of Economics and Management, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing,College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Gong, Peichen (author)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Institutionen för skogsekonomi,Department of Forest Economics
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- Bostedt, Göran, 1966- (author)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences,Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet,Institutionen för skogsekonomi,Department of Forest Economics
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- Xu, Jintao (author)
- College of Environmental Science and Engineering, Peking University, Beijing, China
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- Environment for Development & Resources For the Future, 2011
- English 28 s.
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Series: Environment for Development, Discussion Paper ; 11-12
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Series: EfD Working Paper
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Abstract
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- State-owned forest enterprises (SOFEs) in northeast China and Inner Mongolia play important roles both in timber production and in the maintenance of ecological security. However, since the late 1970s, forest resource and economic crises have seriously restricted these functions. Based on a theoretical and an empirical analysis of the harvest and investment behavior of the SOFEs, we examined the effects of forest policies and the socioeconomic conditions on the behavioral choices of the SOFEs. Both the extent to which SOFE supervising authorities emphasized improvement of forest resources in their annual evaluations and the increases in expenses necessary to manage SOFEs had significant impacts on harvest and investment decisions as well as development of forest resources. Promoting the management and utilization of non-timber resources, as well as reforms to increase the efficiency of forest protection and management, have reduced timber harvests as intended, which in turn has increased investment and improved forest resources. The effects have been relatively small, however. In contrast, reforms aimed at timber harvest and afforestation activities actually contributed toincreasing the timber harvest, which affected the development of the forest resources negatively.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Nationalekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Economics (hsv//eng)
- LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER -- Annan lantbruksvetenskap -- Miljö- och naturvårdsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES -- Other Agricultural Sciences -- Environmental Sciences related to Agriculture and Land-use (hsv//eng)
- LANTBRUKSVETENSKAPER -- Lantbruksvetenskap, skogsbruk och fiske -- Skogsvetenskap (hsv//swe)
- AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES -- Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries -- Forest Science (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- state-owned forest enterprise
- "double crises
- " sustainable forest management
- forest policy
- Economics
- nationalekonomi
Publication and Content Type
- vet (subject category)
- rap (subject category)
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