Abbreviations |
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Summary |
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Introduction: Statement of the Problem and Structure of the Study |
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1 | (19) |
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Empirical and Theoretical Points of Departure |
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5 | (6) |
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Preliminary Remarks on the Choice of the Field of Study |
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11 | (8) |
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19 | (1) |
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Determinants of Natural Resource Use: Theoretical Approaches from the Field of Economics and the State of Research |
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20 | (63) |
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State of the Research: an Initial Overview |
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22 | (7) |
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29 | (7) |
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Environmental and Resource Economics |
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36 | (7) |
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43 | (17) |
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Economic Analyses of the Exploitation of Tropical Forests |
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60 | (23) |
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Utilization of the Amazon Forest from the View of Ecological Economics: Edward Barbier |
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61 | (2) |
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Natural-resource Extraction as an Economic Dead End: The Model of Alfredo Homma |
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63 | (3) |
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Nutrient Mining on the Agrarian Frontier and Destruction of Tropical Forests: Studies by the World Bank and IMAZON |
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66 | (10) |
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Tropical-timber Trade and Tropical-forest Protection: The Analysis Conducted by Edward Barbier's Working Group |
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76 | (4) |
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Tropical-forest Exploitation and Protection form the View of Allocation Theory: Studies form the Kiel Institut fur Weltwirtschaft |
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80 | (3) |
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Alternative Approaches to Economic Action from the Fields of Sociology and Evolutionary Economic Theory |
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83 | (48) |
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Sociological Approaches to Economic Action |
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83 | (15) |
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Rational Action and the Determinants of Social Action |
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84 | (12) |
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Is Sociology ``Blind to Nature''? Nature in Giddens' Theory of Structuration |
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96 | (2) |
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Theories of Technical Change: Innovation, Evolutionary Processes, and Path Dependency |
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98 | (21) |
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Systematic Overview and Basic Concepts |
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99 | (7) |
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Economic Action as Action in Routines |
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106 | (5) |
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The Process of Economic and Technical Change as an Evolutionary Process |
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111 | (8) |
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Conclusions for the Methodological Approach Pursued by the Present Study |
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119 | (12) |
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119 | (11) |
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Stages and Sources Involved in the Empirical Study |
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130 | (1) |
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Tropical Ecology and Sustaniable Forestry |
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131 | (40) |
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Features of Forest Ecosystems in the Tropics |
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134 | (9) |
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Sustainable Forestry in the Tropics |
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143 | (14) |
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Effects of Sustainable Tropical-forest Management on Company Management |
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157 | (3) |
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Ecological Certification of Forest Management |
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160 | (11) |
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The World Market for Tropical Timber |
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171 | (23) |
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Quantitative Developments in the World Timber Market |
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172 | (15) |
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Quantitative Developments in the World Timber Market |
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187 | (7) |
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The Timber Industry in Para and in Brazil in the 1990s |
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194 | (72) |
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The Economic Framework Conditions |
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197 | (10) |
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The Timber Industry in Brazil and in Para |
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207 | (10) |
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217 | (6) |
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223 | (7) |
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Environmental Regulation of Forest Utilization and Timber-processing |
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230 | (14) |
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Innovation Pressure and Innovativeness |
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244 | (21) |
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Preliminary Conclusions on the Dominant Action Patterns in the Timber Industry |
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265 | (1) |
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Historical Reconstruction of the Development of Para's Timber Industry |
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266 | (86) |
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The Economic Framework Conditions |
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269 | (10) |
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Para's Timber Industry between the 1960s and 1980s |
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279 | (28) |
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279 | (5) |
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284 | (10) |
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The Development of Para's Timber Industry between 1959 and 1985, as Mirrored by Statistics |
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294 | (13) |
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307 | (10) |
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307 | (2) |
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309 | (3) |
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The Development of Roundwood Production between 1975 and 1991, as Mirrored by Statistics |
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312 | (5) |
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317 | (9) |
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317 | (5) |
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322 | (4) |
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The Model for the Development of the Timber Sector |
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326 | (14) |
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327 | (4) |
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331 | (8) |
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339 | (1) |
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340 | (12) |
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Patterns of Resource Utilization and Foreign Trade: Results of the Study and Conclusions |
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352 | (21) |
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352 | (5) |
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The Results Seen in Their Theoretical Context |
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357 | (9) |
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366 | (7) |
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Conclusions for Development Cooperation |
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373 | (11) |
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Development Cooperation and Sustainable Development in Para |
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373 | (8) |
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Promotion of a Sustainable Development of the Tropical-timber Industry |
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381 | (3) |
Notes |
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384 | (23) |
Bibliography |
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407 | (26) |
Appendix |
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