By considering the expansion of the timber trade in southeast Europe as a resource frontier, this article explores the relationships between the transformation of the technical and material conditions of forest exploitation and the development of its labour force. Previous studies have...

The article discusses the advancement of timber traders and former middlemen in Riga's timber trade during the second half of the 19 th and early 20 th century. Using methods from spatial history, statistical data on the Riga timber trade and archival documents from the timber trade files in the...

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...

"Logging in the northern forest has been romanticized, with images of log drives, plaid shirts, and bunkhouses in wide circulation. Increasingly dismissed as a quaint, rural pastime, logging remains one of the most dangerous jobs in the United States, with loggers occupying a precarious position...

Trade-related measures aim to regulate side-effects in international environmental agreements and are expected to positively influence the level of participation in the agreements as well as their degree of stability. In this paper we examine one side-effect of the 1994 International Tropical...

Forstwirtschaft, Holzeinschlag und Holzhandel sind unlängst aus umweltpolitischer Perspektive kritisch hinterfragt worden. Die Kennzeichnung von Holz ermöglicht Konsumenten, ihre Nachfrage auf Holzerzeugnisse aus nachhaltiger Bewirtschaftung zu richten. Der Beitrag diskutiert, inwiefern eine...