Produção Nacional
Economic Trends in the Timber Industry of the Brazilian Amazon: Evidence from Paragominas
1996; RELX Group (Netherlands); Linguagem: Inglês
ISSN
1556-5068
Autores Tópico(s)Agriculture and Rural Development Research
ResumoThe timber industry of the Brazilian Amazon is changing rapidly. From a slowly evolving base of extraction in the estuary areas, the industry has expanded along an extensive road network straddling upland forests. This research examines the changes in the economic profile of timber extraction and processing in an old frontier area of Brazil, the county of Paragominas in the Eastern Amazonian state of Para. As one of the earliest centres of upland logging in the Amazon, its experience after twenty years offers insights to the development of the industry as it spreads to other regions of the basin. This paper presents a theoretical model of industry evolution in frontier areas and analyzes industry response in Paragominas to local shortages in raw material, rising international wood prices and increasingly stable property rights.
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