The paper deals with issues of taxation in relation to decentralisation of forest resources. It presents preliminary empirical data from Tanzania in the form of forest taxation records from 12 villages that have gained jurisdiction over forest products taxation through a decentralisation reform....

This paper deals with rural households’ decision regarding tree planting on farmland in developing countries. This has been the topic of numerous descriptive socio-economic studies. In many cases the findings and claims of these studies are ambiguous, although there is a general agreement...

The main goal of the study is to compare the management of Estonian public forests and the factors influencing the management with the Finnish public forests. The concept public forests refers here only to the forests managed by the state forest organizations--'RMK' in Estonia and...

This paper intends to investigate whether forest products prices are converging on a global basis. Recent market integration studies have analysed price linkages within limited geographic regions, and have frequently concluded that regional forest product markets are integrated. Industrial...

This paper presents the latest information on the Japanese marketing environment of structural lumber that is used for house construction. The demand for lumber has decreased, while the demand for structural laminated lumber has been rapidly increasing. The changes in end-users' requirements...

The internalization of small and medium sized companies has recently received an increased amount of attention. However, no existing model or theory manages to satisfactory explain this process, which is indicated by the varying results from empirical studies. The prime interest of this study is...

The European part of Russia forms as important and growing part of total timber trade of Europe. While forest resources in the European part of Russia are vast, the accessibility of these resources limits their potential use. Economic accessibility of forest resource can be calculated based on...