Además de su importancia en el ámbito de la producción, las cooperativas juegan un papel vertebrador en una Comunidad Autónoma tan extensa y escasamente poblada como Castilla y León. En este trabajo se han analizado las cooperativas asociadas a un sector que no suele estudiarse por...

Sweden and Finland as two neighbouring forestry countries are compared. Despite the widely similar features of forestry sectors, some interesting differences are found. In Finland, the economic dependence on and the people's involvement in the forestry sector are wider than in Sweden. For...

Forests have great importance for the Latvian economy, environment, landscape, flora and fauna. Forest sector contribution to the national GDP is 10…12 %, providing employment for 75…80 thousand people. In the paper was analysed accessible forest and wood resources in Latvia, forest...

After the recession of early 1990s the major pulp and paper companies in Finland engaged in further consolidation and widened their earlier “European” investment orientation into “global” business strategies by mill acquisitions in North America and elsewhere. In the search for better...