Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logging
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Southern Pulpwood Harvesting Productivity and Cost Changes Between 1979 and 1987
Author: Productivity in Natural Resource Industries
Author: R. David SimpsonPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135893691
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Several senior natural resource analysts study the role played by innovation, particularly technological innovation, in the pursuit of heightened productivity. Increasing the output of a given input improves a firm‘s bottom line, makes it more competitive internationally, and reduces the potential for resource depletion and shortages. Thus, high productivity is a necessary ingredient of economic prosperity. This book illustrates the importance of technological innovation in achieving an acceptable level of output and efficiency. In this important new offering, a team of resource scholars describes and chronicles the development of recent innovations in selected natural resource industries. The authors also reveal the causes, sources, and net effect of such innovation on productivity. In all of these sectors productivity has increased considerably since the early 1980s, although the level of improvement varies across industries. To what degree did technological innovation contribute to that increase? Individual detailed case studies detail important innovations in America‘s coal, petroleum, copper, and forest industries. The primary focus is on extraction and production technologies, although the existence and importance of innovation in other areas such as management technique also enter the picture. For example, the combination of new technology with restructuring seems to have breathed new life into a floundering U.S. copper industry. The authors describe the origin and diffusion of important innovation, and the concluding chapter quantifies the net effect of such innovation on productivity.
Forest Research in the Southeast
Author: Southeastern Forest Experiment Station (Asheville, N.C.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 16
Book Description
Forest Research in the Southeast
Author: Canadian Journal of Forest Research
Author: Forests in a Market Economy
Author: Erin O. SillsPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401702195
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
This book draws together contributions from forest economists in the Research Triangle of North Carolina, with co-authors from institutions around the world. It represents our common belief that rigorous empirical analysis in an economic framework can inform forest policy. We intend the book as a guide to the empirical methods that we have found most useful for addressing both traditional and modem areas of concern in forest policy, including timber production and markets, multiple use forestry, and valuation of non-market benefits. 'The book editors and most chapter authors are affiliated with three institutions in the Research Triangle: the Southern Research Station of the USDA Forest Service (K. Abt, Butry, Holmes, Mercer, Moulton, Prestemon, Wear), the Department of Forestry at North Carolina State University (R. Abt, Ahn, Cubbage, Sills), and the Environmental and Natural Resource Economics Program of Research Triangle Institute (Murray, Pattanayak). Two other Triangle institutions are also represented among the book authors: Duke University (Kramer) and the Forestland Group (Zinkhan). In addition to our primary affiliations, many of us are adjunct faculty and/or graduates of Triangle universities. Many of our co-authors also graduated from or were previously affiliated with Triangle institutions. Thus, the selection of topics, methods, and case studies reflects the work of this particular network of economists, and to some degree, our location in the southeastern United States. However, our work and the chapters encompass other regions of the United States and the world, including Latin America and Asia.
Geographic Index of Environmental Articles
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental literature
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Effects of Equipment Technology on Southern Pulpwood Harvesting Productivity and Costs
Author: Frederick W. CubbagePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Logging
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Market Structure and Timber Harvesting Margins in the U.S. South
Author: Changyou SunPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Research Paper NC.
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description