Logging the Globe - Hardcover

Marchak, Patricia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773513450 ISBN 13: 9780773513457

Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1995

Synopsis

Patricia Marchak examines issues particular to the northern and southern regions and the global effects of trends in each region, using British Columbia, Brazil, Chile, Indonesia, and Thailand as full case studies and Malaysia, Myanmar, and other south-east Asian regions as shorter case studies. She also examines Japanese forestry and the Japanese paper industry. Logging the Globe provides in-depth analyses of the restructuring of the global division of labour; the effect of Japanese demand for pulp; changes in employment, production, land policies, and markets in northern countries; deforestation; plantation forestry; and the influence of European, North American, and Japanese companies on tropical forests and peoples. Marchak considers whether industrial forestry is sustainable and suggests ways in which global demand for forest products can be met in more efficient and more nearly sustainable ways. Logging the Globe presents a global picture of a critically important environmental and social issue. It will be of great interest to professionals in the industry, policy makers and environmental activists, and those concerned with environmental and social issues.

About this title

About the Author

Patricia Marchak, former dean of arts and professor emerita, University of British Columbia, is the author of several books including Logging the Globe, The Integrated Circus, God's Assassins, and Reigns of Terror.

Edition details

• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0773513450
• ISBN 13: 9780773513457
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 440