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Entrepreneurship and Management in Forestry and Wood Processing : Principles of Business Economics and Management Processes.
Forestry has long been in a rather favourable position in offering a valuable raw material source in high demand. However, with rapidly changing end-user demands and cost competitiveness within the forest and wood chain as a whole, the industry is needing to adapt. Explaining entrepreneurial action...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Florence :
Taylor and Francis,
2013.
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| Colección: | Routledge explorations in environmental economics.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on the authors; Foreword; Preface; 1 Forestry and the wood products industry; 1.1 Forest distribution and vegetation; 1.1.1 World forests and regions; 1.1.2 European forests; 1.1.3 Wood growth and wood harvesting; 1.1.4 Forest vegetation and tree species; 1.1.5 Development of forest vegetation; 1.1.6 Influence of human settlement; 1.1.7 Private and public forestland ownership; 1.2 Forest resources management; 1.2.1 Renewable natural resources; 1.2.2 Local forest uses; 1.2.3 Early industrial wood uses.
- 1.2.4 Origins of sustainable forestry1.2.5 Sustainable wood production; 1.2.6 Multifunctional forest management; 1.2.7 Forest ecosystem management; 1.3 Wood-processing industry; 1.3.1 Structure of the sector and development of consumption; 1.3.2 The European forest-based sector; 1.3.3 The sawmilling industry; 1.3.4 The wood-based panel industry; 1.3.5 Secondary wood processing; 1.3.6 The pulp and paper industry; 1.3.7 International trade in wood products; 1.4 Wood energy; 1.4.1 General considerations; 1.4.2 The European context; 1.4.3 Wood sources for energy use; 1.4.4 EU policy framework.
- 1.4.5 Sector-specific use of wood energy1.4.6 Wood processing co-products and residue; 1.4.7 Post-consumer wood residues; 1.4.8 Wood biomass from land outside forests; 1.5 Annex: Major wood product groups: world and selected European countries; 1.6 Further reading; 2 Creating added value in companies and enterprises; 2.1 Value-creation processes; 2.1.1 Producing goods and services; 2.1.2 Creating value added; 2.1.3 Value chain in wood processing; 2.1.4 Wood-processing networks; 2.1.5 Environmental benefits and social services; 2.1.6 Cluster analysis in the forest-based sector.
- 2.1.7 Maintaining the natural resource base2.2 Enterprises and companies; 2.2.1 System structure, transformation process and legal form; 2.2.2 Forest enterprises; 2.2.3 Enterprises of the wood-based sector; 2.2.4 Size and business location; 2.2.5 Horizontal and vertical cooperation; 2.3 Entrepreneurship; 2.3.1 Innovation
- an entrepreneurial challenge; 2.3.2 Factors of change in the wood-processing industry; 2.3.3 Human-environment systems interaction research; 2.4 Further reading; 3 Markets and marketing; 3.1 Markets; 3.1.1 Supply and demand; 3.1.2 Private and public goods.
- 3.1.3 Market forms and market trends3.1.4 Market life cycles; 3.1.5 Markets for wood-based products; 3.1.6 Customers for wood-based products; 3.2 Marketing; 3.2.1 Customer needs and marketable products; 3.2.2 Marketing policies; 3.2.3 Certification; 3.2.4 Marketing strategies and target markets; 3.2.5 Marketing instruments; 3.2.6 Implementing marketing strategies; 3.3 Further reading; 4 Management, human resources and organisation; 4.1 Management as an entrepreneurial challenge; 4.1.1 Management systems; 4.1.2 Directive functions and management areas.