Tropical Hardwood Utilization: Practice and Prospects
Roelof A. A. Oldeman Tropical hardwoods are one of the essential cogs in the complex socio-economic machinery keeping alive an ever-increasing humanity with steadily rising claims upon a finite-resource environment. Their position in this context at first
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FORESTRY SCIENCES Also in this series: Baas P: New Perspectives in Wood Anatomy. 1982. ISBN 90-247-2526-7 In preparation: Bonga JM and Durzan DJ, eds: Tissues Culture in Forestry Chandler CC, Cheney P and Williams DF, eds: Fire in Forest Gordon JC and Wheeler CT, eds: Biological Nitrogen Fixation in Forest Ecosystems: Foundation and Applications Hummel FC, ed: Fore$~ryPolicy Madgwick HAl: Forest Biomass Nemeth MV: The Virus - Mycoplasma and Rickettsia Disease of Fruit Trees Powers RF and Miller HG, eds: Applied Aspects of Forest Tree Nutrition Powers RF and Miller HG, eds: Basic Aspects of Forest Tree Nutrition Rajagopal R: Information Analysis for Resource Management Van Nao T, ECEjFAOjAgriculture and Timber Division, eds: Forest Fire Prevention and Control
TROPICAL HARDWOOD UTILIZATION: PRACTICE AND PROSPECTS
Book Editor: Roelof A.A. Oldeman Section Editors: R.G. Fontaine, J.P. Guillard, J.D. Brazier, K.D. Menon and A. Overbeek
SPRINGER-SCIENCE+BUSINESS MEDIA, B.Y. 1982
Tropica1 hardwood uti1ization. (Forestry sciences ; v. 3) Inc1udes index. 1. Hardwoods--Tropics--Addresses, essays, 1ectures. 2. Wood-using industries--Adrlresses, essays,lectures. I. 01deman, Roe1of A. A., 1937II. Series. TS855.T76 333.75'13'0913 81-22396 ISBN 978-90-481-8271-8 ISBN 978-94-017-3610-7 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-94-017-3610-7
ISBN 978-90-481-8271-8
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v TABLE OF CONTENTS
Alphabetical list of authors
ix
Foreword by R.A.A. Oldeman
xv
Introduction by T.J. Peck Section I - Tropical hardwood resources (ed. R.G . Fontaine)
19
Chapter 1. Introduction to the resource question by R.G. Fontaine
21
Chapter 2. Tropical hardwood resources by FAO, Forestry Department, Policy and Planning Service
27
Chapter 3. Draft list of large-scale forest inventories carried out in the tropics by FAO, Forestry Department, Forest Resources Division
33
Chapter 4. Present and future forest and plantation areas in the tropics by J.P. Lanly and J. Clement
47
Chapter 5. Devastation of tropical forest through forest exploitation myth or reality? by J.T. Wassink
93
Chapter 6. Life insurance for tropical hardwood resources by R.A.A. Oldeman and J .R.A. Boerboom
97
Chapter 7. Prospects of plantation and lesser-known tropical hardwood species for commercial utilization by F.N. Tamolang, 1.A. Meniado, B.C. de Vela and F.R. Lopez
107
Chapter 8. Guidelines for Brazilian forestry policy, period 1979-1985 by the Brazilian Institute for Forestry Development
125
Section II - Tropical hardwood markets and marketing (ed. J. Guillard)
143
Chapter 9. Introduction to tropical hardwood markets by J. Guillard
145
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Chapter 10. Study on the
