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Tropical Hardwood Utilization: Practice and Prospects (Hardcover, 1982 ed.)
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Tropical Hardwood Utilization: Practice and Prospects (Hardcover, 1982 ed.)
Series: Forestry Sciences, 3
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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 sight seems to be analogous to that of other commodities,
such as rubber, metals, mineral oil, tropical fruits and many more.
Looking closer, however, tropical hardwoods occupy a special place.
Their vast majority, unlike tropical crops, still comes forth from
natural forests being exploited by man. This exploitation straight
from the natural resource is something they have in common with oil
and metals, but the fact that they grow in living systems places
them closer to crops. Natural forest ecosystems are not renewable.
Timber producing trees, however, can be made into a renewable
resource on condition that ways and means are found to cultivate
them as a crop. be understood as a socio-economic The tropical
hardwood situation can best chain, with the resource base at one
end, the consumer community at the other and everything that has to
do with the market in the middle. Now, at the resource side, the
economics of tropical hardwood extraction barely got out of the
primeval ways of wood-gathering by hand and by axe, which were
still predominant in the nineteen-forties. There, the offer of
natural products was so immense and so near to hand that no care
had to be taken of the resource.
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