scholarly journals The Status of Wood Products Supply and Demand in Ethiopia: A Review

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Wood Products ◽  
The Status

scholarly journals Giffen goods, backward bending supply curves, price controls and praxeology; or, who’s afraid of the big bad boogie man of giffen goods and backward bending supply curves? Not us

2021 ◽  
pp. 353-373
Author(s):  
Walter Block ◽  
William Barnett
Keyword(s):  
Key Words ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Logical Positivism ◽  
Price Controls ◽  
Resource Misallocation ◽  
Palabras Clave ◽  
Usual Manner ◽  
Demand Curves ◽  
The Status

What is the status of claims about the effects of minimum wage laws? Empirical or praxeological? We claim the latter. How can the effect of such legislation be best analyzed under the assumption of mis-behaving supply (backward bending) and demand (positively sloped, based on positing Giffen goods) curves? In the usual manner: resource misallocation still occurs. But this is only arguendo. More radically, such curves are themselves problematic. Even more radically, this, too, applies to «well behaved» supply and demand curves as well. Key words: Backward Bending Supply Curves, Price Controls, Praxeology, Giffen Goods, Logical Positivism. JEL Classification: D0. Resumen: ¿Cuál es el status del análisis sobre los efectos de las leyes de salario mínimo? ¿Empírico o praxeológico? Nosotros defendemos lo se gundo. ¿Pueden analizarse mejor los efectos de dichas leyes suponiendo curvas de oferta y demanda anómalas (como las de los bienes Giffen)? Como en el  nálisis tradicional se produce una mala asignación de recursos. En todo caso, tanto tales curvas, como las tradicionales son muy problemáticas. Palabras clave: Control de precios, praxeología, bienes de Giffen, positivismo lógico. Clasificación JEL: D0.

Supply and Demand Management During Industrial Evolutions

2019 ◽  
pp. 263-293
Author(s):  
Ponnusamy Venkumar
Keyword(s):  
Q Methodology ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Demand Forecasting ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Mitigation Strategies ◽  
Time Sharing ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Status ◽  
Third Industrial Revolution

The aim of this chapter is to understand the status quo of academic research on demand and supply management in terms of cause and mitigation strategies during the third industrial revolution and estimate the scope in the fourth industrial revolution. The chapter uses a systematic literature review approach to classify the past studies published in the International Journal of Production Research during the third industrial revolution based on cause and mitigation strategic framework. Similarly, the study estimates the scope in future by brainstorming academicians and practitioners using Q-methodology. This analysis reveals that dependence on technology will simplify tracking of transit inventory and real-time sharing transparency and continuous updating will simplify demand forecasting.

scholarly journals Using Ecosystem Service Flows to Inform Ecological Compensation: Theory & Application

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (9) ◽  
pp. 3340 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaolong Gao ◽  
Binbin Huang ◽  
Ying Hou ◽  
Weihua Xu ◽  
Hua Zheng ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Ecosystem Service ◽  
Water Conservation ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Policy Instrument ◽  
Ecological Compensation ◽  
Development Zone ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
The Status

Ecological compensation is a crucial policy instrument that realigns the benefits of stakeholders to the ecosystem service provision. However, the spatial disconnections between locations where ecosystem services produced and used are common. The supply and demand for ecosystem services are calculated to reflect the status of the districts or counties based on ecosystem service flows. The replacement cost methods provide necessary technical supports for the calculation of compensation funds. The realigning of compensation funds between service-benefiting areas and service-providing areas not only identifies the beneficiaries and suppliers but also realizes the connection between them, which may be a feasible methodology. Fuzhou City is the study area, and two ecosystem services of water conservation and soil retention were taken into consideration. The prioritized development zone, Linchuan, and the key agricultural production zones paid ecological compensation funds. Linchuan paid the highest, 5.76 billion yuan. The key ecological function zones and the key agricultural production zones received the ecological compensation funds, of which Yihuang obtained the highest, 1.66 billion yuan. The realigning of compensation funds between the service benefiting and providing areas addresses the trade-offs between ecosystem services, social development, and ecosystem protection. Embedding the ecosystem service flows into the ecological compensation mechanism can most truly realize the value of ecosystem services, achieve the “beneficiary pays” principle, and be conducive to regional sustainable development.

scholarly journals Human dimensions information needs of fishery managers in the Laurentian Great Lakes

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nadine Heck ◽  
Richard C. Stedman ◽  
Marc Gaden
Keyword(s):  
Great Lakes ◽  
Cultural Values ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Fishery Management ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Human Dimensions ◽  
Interdisciplinary Studies ◽  
The Status

Fishery management is increasingly moving towards ecosystem-based approaches that integrate ecological and human dimensions of fisheries. Studies on the human dimensions (HD) of fisheries have increased in recent years. A gap, however, remains between the nature of available information and the information needed by fishery managers. Our paper addresses this gap for the Great Lakes fisheries. We explicitly explored information needs of fishery managers to better reconcile the supply and demand of HD information. Our study finds that managers need HD information in particular to demonstrate the achievements of management goals and to address management issues. In addition, understanding the purpose and timing of information is important in order to provide timely and relevant information as fishery managers identify distinct information needs for planning, decision-making, and evaluation of management. Fishery managers in our study were particularly interested in direct and indirect economic values of the fisheries as well as values, beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors of users. Interviewed managers were not only interested in the status quo of these factors but also wanted to understand what influences and shapes them. In addition, fishery managers would like to understand the contribution of fisheries to ecosystem services in the basin including cultural values. Our interviews did not detect interest in information on long-term HD trends or the explicit need for interdisciplinary studies. Such information, however, would be critical to understand and predict changes in the human dimensions of the fisheries and to develop management strategies to cope with these changes.

scholarly journals Perceptions of Debarking Small-Diameter Stems in the Wood Products Community

2021 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 371-378
Author(s):  
Azadwinder Singh Chahal ◽  
Jaya Tripathi ◽  
Daniel Ciolkosz ◽  
Sarah Wurzbacher ◽  
Michael Jacobson
Keyword(s):  
Small Diameter ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Small Dimension ◽  
Pulp And Paper ◽  
Wood Products ◽  
Ecological Benefits ◽  
Secondary Markets ◽  
Dimension Lumber ◽  
The Status ◽  
Additional Processing

Abstract Sufficiently valuing small-diameter-stem (diameter < 9 in.) woody material in Pennsylvania forest product markets may incentivize increased utilization of that material, a resource opportunity that would provide economic and ecological benefits to the state's forests and forest products community. Debarking is one primary process that could enhance the value of these small-diameter-stem materials for secondary markets. The wood products community in Pennsylvania was surveyed as to their perceptions of the status and value of economical small-diameter-stem debarking. The largest perceived current market for debarked, small-diameter-stem material identified by respondents is for chips for pulp and paper, and anticipated future demand is expected to be highest for chips for pulp and paper, chips for energy, and small-dimension lumber. Respondents who currently supply a given market tend to be more optimistic about that market than respondents who do not serve that particular market. Shredded wood/hog fuel and mulch are the two markets with the lowest overall scores for anticipated benefit of additional processing by debarking. Seventy-six percent of all respondents indicated that economical small-diameter-stem debarking would benefit their operation.

scholarly journals UNDERSTANDING THE DYNAMICS OF THE BRAZILIAN MARKET FOR NATIVE FOREST WOOD: A CASE STUDY FOR MINAS GERAIS STATE, BRAZIL

2021 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thales Guilherme Vaz Martins ◽  
Geraldo Gonçalves dos Reis ◽  
Maria das Graças Ferreira Reis ◽  
Rodrigo Vieira Leite ◽  
Lucas Arthur de Almeida Telles ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Solid Wood ◽  
Minas Gerais ◽  
Wood Products ◽  
Native Forest ◽  
Distribution Centers ◽  
Essential Information ◽  
Mato Grosso ◽  
Wood Supply ◽  
Belo Horizonte

ABSTRACT Understanding the Brazilian market for native wood helps forest managers and can guide conservation policies. This study aimed to evaluate the spatial and temporal distribution of supply and demand of the Brazilian native wood for four products namely, charcoal, roundwood, firewood, and sawn wood. We used the consumed wood volume from 2006 to 2016 in Minas Gerais (MG) tracking its supplier in Brazil accounting for 31 million cubic meters. These data were used as input for calculating mean centers and performing grouping analysis. The wood supply centers for the energy sector in Brazil have moved from Cerrado to the Caatinga biome. This change is consistent with historical patterns of agricultural expansion in Brazil. The largest mesoregions producing wood were: East of Mato Grosso do Sul State, South of Goiás State, and Center-South of Bahia State. The solid wood supply centers have moved from the North to Midwest regions but remained within the Amazon biome for almost all the years. This pattern is likely a consequence of timber regulation practices in the Amazon. The mesoregions: Madeira-Guaporé and East of Rondônia State, Southeast and Northeast of Pará State, and North of Mato Grosso State were the most important suppliers of solid wood to MG. Wood consumption for energy is centered in the Center and North regions of MG State, especially in Sete Lagoas, a hub of pig iron and cement industries. Solid wood products are dispersed in MG State, being Belo Horizonte, Conselheiro Lafaiete, Ubá, and Uberlândia the distribution centers of native wood for the furniture industry within MG. The spatial statistics helped to exploit the activity of the native wood market in Brazil and provides essential information for decision-makers that was not previously available.

Organic Agribusiness in India: Status, Potential, and Constraints

2020 ◽  
pp. 160-167
Keyword(s):  
Demand Uncertainty ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Organic Production ◽  
Market Development ◽  
Organic Farm ◽  
Organic Cultivation ◽  
Farm Production ◽  
Agricultural Produce ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
The Status

This paper reviews the status and potential of organic agribusiness in India. Organic farm production and trade has emerged as an important sector in India as in other parts of the developing world. The growing health concerns and increasing non-tariff barriers like Sanitary and Phyto-sanitary (SPS) measures in the international market are some of the factors behind the move from chemical-based to organic production and consumption systems. It was observed from the data that India had inherent strengths in the production and marketing of organic agricultural produce as it had the largest number of organic producers in the world and ninth in terms of area under organic cultivation. If the issues in production and marketing were taken care of, India had the potential to become a leading player in the organic sector. Encouraging organic agriculture would require appropriate government policies to address the problems of supply and demand uncertainty, appropriate processing technology, and cost of certification and inspection, and market development.

The Analysis and Forecast about the Supply and Demand of China's Rubber Raw Materials Based on Grey Model

2013 ◽  
Vol 404 ◽  
pp. 796-801
Author(s):  
Zhao Jun Wang ◽  
Zhou Lin ◽  
Shuai Liu
Keyword(s):  
Natural Rubber ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Grey Model ◽  
Forecasting Model ◽  
Rubber Industry ◽  
Grey Forecasting ◽  
Synthetic Rubber ◽  
The Status

The rubber industry is an important sector in the national economy. The article took the natural rubber and synthetic rubber as the main studying objects to analyze and forecast the amount of supply and demand of Chinas rubber raw materials. Analyzed the status of supply and demand of Chinas rubber raw materials from 2006 to 2011, and established the Grey Forecasting Model to forecast the supply and demand from 2012 to 2017 in China, and concluded that the prosperous supply and demand of rubber raw materials would be continued in the future.

scholarly journals Piguvianism vs. Coasianism: Who Wins?

2021 ◽  
pp. 49-57
Author(s):  
Andrey E. Shastitko
Keyword(s):  
Market Failure ◽  
Optimal Allocation ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
State Regulation ◽  
Economic Knowledge ◽  
Price Mechanism ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Intellectual Traditions ◽  
The Status ◽  
Functionalist Approach

The main characteristics of approaches to the discussion of the sufficiency of grounds for the introduction / cancellation of state regulation due to the identification of failures in the price mechanism are revealed. The comparison of approaches is presented on the basis of the problem of externalities. In this regard, the provisions from the theory of externalities have been clarified in terms of their definition and correlation with the conditions for optimal allocation of resources, and certain types of external effects are presented. The key types of correction of price mechanism failures are considered, including regulatory intervention, setting up the price mechanism (including the creation of missing markets), maintaining the status quo with externalities. On this basis, the main properties of the Pigouvian and Coasian approaches in economics are determined in relation to the problems of this form of market failure. The features of Coasianism as a functionalist approach to research in contrast to fundamental liberalism are revealed. Taking into account the importance of values, the opportunities for designing of compensatory transactions and the supply and demand of economic knowledge, assessments of the prospects of functionalism and fundamentalisms are presented as a guide to action in the field of discussion and political decision-making. The comparative advantages of functionalism and fundamentalisms in the intellectual traditions of discussing the role of the state in the economy are shown.

scholarly journals What Is the Supply and Demand for Coloured Wood Products? An Empirical Study in Slovakian Practice

Forests ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 530
Author(s):  
Mariana Sedliačiková ◽  
Mária Moresová ◽  
Patrik Aláč ◽  
Denisa Malá
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Supply And Demand ◽  
Wood Products ◽  
Wood Colour ◽  
Potential Customers

The paper deals with the issue of the colour tones of wood and furniture products. The main aim is to identify the supply of the colour tones of wood and furniture products and to map the interest in these wood colour tones at potential customers in Slovakia. By means of two independent surveys of supply and demand for colour tones of wood and furniture products, various shortcomings have been identified. It is necessary to increase the supply of wood and furniture products with the natural colour of the wood and at the same time in colour tones of grey, white and brown. The current demand for thermowood and modified alder wood is significantly higher than the supply of such products in the Slovak market. The results of the study represent an opportunity for Slovak woodworking and furniture enterprises to adjust their range of products according to the needs of potential customers, which will bring them higher turnover and help to overcome the current problems associated with the “COVID crisis”.

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