Certified Tropical Timber and Consumer Behaviour: The Impact of a Certification Scheme for Tropical Timber from Sustainable Forest Management on German Demand

Boycotting tropical timber reduces its economic value and provides an incentive to burn down forests, making them available for subsequent agricultural use or livestock farming. In contrast, a certification scheme for sustainability produced timber (tropical or non-tropical) protects the forests by...

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Beteiligte Personen: Brockmann, Karl L. (VerfasserIn), Hemmelskamp, Jens (VerfasserIn), Hohmeyer, Olav (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Heidelberg Physica-Verlag HD 1996
Ausgabe:1st ed. 1996
Schriftenreihe:Environmental and Resource Economics
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Links:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51735-8
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51735-8
Zusammenfassung:Boycotting tropical timber reduces its economic value and provides an incentive to burn down forests, making them available for subsequent agricultural use or livestock farming. In contrast, a certification scheme for sustainability produced timber (tropical or non-tropical) protects the forests by raising their economic value. This study examines the impact of a certification scheme on German demand for tropical timber. A partial-equilibrium model is developed for the German tropical timber market as a whole as well as for five important submarkets representing 50% of the total demand. The results reveal that a credible certification scheme can induce a significant expansion of demand for sustainability produced tropical timber. This holds true for a scheme restricted to Germany as well as for an OECD-wide approach
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (XVI, 178 p. 5 illus)
ISBN:9783642517358
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-51735-8