In sechs Workshops im Rahmen der Charta für Holz 2.0 im Dialog wurde das Thema Kreislaufwirtschaft mit Holz diskutiert. Aus den Ergebnissen lässt sich ein differenzierter Blick auf eine Transformation hin zu einer Kreislaufwirtschaft in der Holzindustrie ableiten. Da die Mehrheit der...

The wood processing industry is not immune to the ripple effects of information technology's constant and rapid growth. Companies from that industry are under more pressure than ever to use digital innovation to adapt to rapidly shifting markets, lead the charge in the energy transition, and...

If bidders are better informed than the seller about a common component of auction heterogeneity, the seller can allocate more efficiently by keeping her reserve price secret and revising it using submitted bids. We build a model of a first-price auction under unobserved auction...

If bidders are better informed than the seller about a common component of auction heterogeneity, the seller can allocate more efficiently by keeping her reserve price secret and revising it using submitted bids. We build a model of a first‐price auction under unobserved auction...

As was first stressed by the classical economists Adam Smith and David Ricardo, international trade plays a crucial role in the growth process. The paper aims to analyze the influence of foreign trade on economic performance in the wood processing industry (WPI) of Czechia and Slovakia. The...

For more than a decade, the United States and Canada have been engaged in a rancorous dispute over trade in softwood lumber. Through three successive rounds of administrative litigation before the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. sawmill industry has sought to have countervailing duties...

Uruguay es el tercer productor en Sudamérica de celulosa blanqueada de madera dura, en tanto, en el caso de la madera sólida, participa en el mercado de coníferas que es el principal a nivel mundial y tiene un rol destacado en un nicho en el mercado de no coníferas (de maderas duras).Este...

The material presents the problem of forests, deforestation becoming nowadays a real global problem of mankind. Many millennia ago, population growth required the sacrifice of the forest to make way for crops, today forests are cut primarily for profit, wood being one of the most precious...

"Cet ouvrage dresse un portrait des allumettières de la E.B. Eddy de Hull en abordant leurs conditions de vie et de travail entre 1854 et 1928. Cette étude s'appuie principalement sur un portrait démographique basé sur les recensements canadiens, mais aussi sur diverses archives...

Neben der langen Tradition von zwischenbetrieblichen Kooperationen haben kürzliche Entwicklungen zu einer erhöhten Anzahl und Bedeutung von Unternehmensnetzwerken geführt. Durch eine Verbesserung der Koordination und Kommunikation sowie der Ermöglichung von völlig neuen Arten der...

Wood processing is an important downstream activity of the Philippine forestry sector because it adds economic value to logs, diversifies the products that can be produced from it, and increases the incomes and employment of involved communities. Despite its many economic contributions, however,...

Greece went bankrupt in 2009 presumably because it run an exorbitant public deficit and had accumulated a huge public debt. However, in reality Greece went bankrupt because its model of social and economic organization has been surpassed by European and international developments. To avoid this...

Die Eigenschaften von Spanplatten werden unter anderem von der Qualität der eingesetzten Deck- und Mittelschichtspäne beeinflusst. Neben anderen Merkmalen ist die Spangröße - genauer die Partikelgrößenverteilung - eine wichtige Einflussgröße für die Spanqualität. Bestimmt wird die...

Die Holzbearbeitungsmaschinenindustrie ist eine besondere Branche innerhalb des deutschen Maschinenbaus, die international sehr wettbewerbsfähig ist und hochinnovativ am Markt agiert. Sie setzt auf eine flexible Qualitätsproduktion im High-end-Bereich der Produktpalette, die nur mit einem...

Years of rapid and indiscriminate logging of Philippine forests, coupled with little reforestation, have led to more frequent, widespread, and damaging natural disasters, such as floods, landslides, and other environmental damages. With strong political will and noble intentions, President...

This study aims to identify and analysing both advantages and disadvantages of the EVFTA to Vietnam’s timber industry, based on the main research question: To what extent is Vietnam’s Timber industry affected by VEFTA? The author’s hypothesis is that VEFTA will positively impact to boost...

"The South is today, as it always has been, the key to understanding American society, its politics, its constitutional anomalies and government structure, its culture, its social relations, its music and literature, its media focus, its blind spots, and virtually everything else. The Golden Key...

Local beer breweries in Burkina Faso absorb a considerable amount of urban woodfuel demand. We assess the woodfuel savings caused by the adoption of improved brewing stoves by these micro-breweries and estimate the implied welfare effects through the woodfuel market on private households as well...

Local beer breweries in Burkina Faso absorb a considerable amount of urban woodfuel demand. We assess the woodfuel savings caused by the adoption of improved brewing stoves by these, mostly female owned, small enterprises and estimate the implied welfare effects through the woodfuel market on...