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| Rai, Chandra; Bigsby, Hugh R.; MacDonald, Ian. |
| Community forestry in Nepal is intended to reduce poverty by sustainable management of forests. Timber is one of the most high-value forest products, especially in the case of Sal (Shorea robusta) forests in the Terai region of Nepal. Despite having several advantages, including high value forests on fertile land, connection with transportation networks, and being close to regional markets, community forests in the Terai region produce little or no timber from their Sal forests. This research looks at what is affecting the production of Sal timber from community forests. Three aspects of community forest user groups (CFUG) are examined using institutional economics, transaction cost economics and micro-economics. First, the scale of CFUG operations is... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Community forest user group; Institutional economics; Transaction cost economics; Cooperatives; Contractual arrangement; Nepal; Agricultural and Food Policy; Crop Production/Industries; Environmental Economics and Policy; Farm Management; Land Economics/Use. |
| Ano: 2010 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/96833 |
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| Liew, Chiew-Ing; Bigsby, Hugh R.; Gidlow, Bob. |
| Economic development activities change the physical and social environments in which individuals live. For planners, it is important to anticipate the types of changes that might occur, and to put measures in place that mitigate negative impacts and promote positive impacts on people and communities. Social Impact Assessment (SIA) was introduced as a tool for understanding the social impacts of development. There are three factors, however, that limit the use of SIA in developing countries. First, the original SIA tool was designed in a developed country, and as such the list of indicators developed may not suitable for local conditions. Second, there is no specific theoretical underpinning of the SIA tool, and thus no link between the SIA tool and... |
| Tipo: Conference Paper or Presentation |
Palavras-chave: Social Impact Assessment (SIA); Actor-Network Theory (ANT); Development impact; Community/Rural/Urban Development; Public Economics. |
| Ano: 2011 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/115410 |
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| Bigsby, Hugh R.. |
| This paper examines the production structure of the Australian sawmilling sector over the period 1950-51 to 1984-85 using a translog cost function. The results show that the sawmilling industry is best represented by a production function which does not have any restrictions on functional form. Inputs, including capital, labour, materials and energy, are generally found to substitutable for one another, although the degree of substitutability is small. There have been economies of scale in the Australian sawmilling industry, and technological change has been capital and energy-using, and labour and materials-saving. |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Productivity Analysis. |
| Ano: 1994 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/22730 |
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| Dhakal, Bhubaneswor; Bigsby, Hugh R.; Cullen, Ross. |
| While there has been a large increase in investment in plantation forestry in New Zealand by smallholders during the past decade, there are still many smallholders who have chosen not to become involved in this land use or who are using only a portion of their potentially planted land for forestry. To understand why this is the case, this paper studies two issues, the differences between those who have and have not established plantation forests, and the factors that explain the proportion of land used in forestry by small landholders who have identified that they have potentially plantable land. Land used for forest plantations is treated as a two-step decision process, where first a landowner must decide whether they would consider planting trees at... |
| Tipo: Journal Article |
Palavras-chave: Forestry investment; Land use change; Non-industrial forests; Double hurdle model; Land Economics/Use; Q15; Q23. |
| Ano: 2008 |
URL: http://purl.umn.edu/50016 |
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