Conservation implications of exporting domestic wood harvest to neighboring countries

Mayer, Audrey L.; Kauppi, Pekka E.; Tikka, Päivi M.; Angelstam, Per

doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2005.12.002

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“…Along with the increasing trade volumes, there is growing international interest in the economic and ecological consequences of the Russian ÁFinnish roundwood trade. For example, it has been argued that the increasing imports from Russia to Europe may have negative impacts on the conservation of biological diversity of boreal forests in Russia, while enabling more ambitious levels of conservation in the importing countries, such as Finland (Mayer et al, 2006).…”

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Price dynamics in the Russian–Finnish roundwood trade

Mutanen

Toppinen

2007

Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research

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This study examines price dynamics in roundwood exports from Russia to Finland, the largest international roundwood trade flow within Europe. The analysis covers six main timber assortments; sawlog and pulpwood dimensions of pine, spruce and birch. The study period, starting from the devaluation of the rouble in August 1998, was characterized by a drastic increase in the volumes of Russian roundwood imported into Finland, and a coinciding structural change in the timber assortment distribution of the Finnish roundwood imports. A basic hypothesis of economic theory, the law of one price, was tested by using quarterly time series and methods of cointegration analysis. According to the cointegration tests, the prices of Finnish and Russian spruce sawlogs have moved closely together. Furthermore, the changes in the prices of spruce sawlogs in the Finnish roundwood market are reflected in the Russian prices and not vice versa. Regarding other timber assortments, price co-movement and consequent market integration was not detected.

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Price dynamics in the Russian–Finnish roundwood trade

Mutanen

Toppinen

2007

Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research

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“…Past forest transitions in Europe and New England in the 19th and early 20th centuries were facilitated by imports of timber from other regions (10,11). Importing wood is the economic equivalent of exporting ecological impacts (12,13). The international timber trade thus creates illusory images of conservation by preserving forests in accessible, affluent political jurisdictions while extracting natural resources from remote places with permissive or poorly enforced environmental policies (14).…”

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Forest transitions, trade, and the global displacement of land use

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2010

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Reducing tropical deforestation is an international priority, given its impacts on carbon emissions and biodiversity. We examined whether recent forest transitions—a shift from net deforestation to net reforestation—involved a geographic displacement of forest clearing across countries through trade in agricultural and forest products. In most of the seven developing countries that recently experienced a forest transition, displacement of land use abroad accompanied local reforestation. Additional global land-use change embodied in their net wood trade offset 74% of their total reforested area. Because the reforesting countries continued to export more agricultural goods than they imported, this net displacement offset 22% of their total reforested area when both agriculture and forestry sectors are included. However, this net displacement increased to 52% during the last 5 y. These countries thus have contributed to a net global reforestation and/or decrease in the pressure on forests, but this global environmental benefit has been shrinking during recent years. The net decrease in the pressure on forests does not account for differences in their ecological quality. Assessments of the impacts of international policies aimed at reducing global deforestation should integrate international trade in agricultural and forest commodities.

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“…Russian forests support large volumes of coarse woody debris (CWD) and, accordingly, a high number of species dependent on CWD (Karjalainen and Kuuluvainen 2002; Krankina et al 2002). Due to the history of intensive forest management in Finland, the diversity dependent on CWD in Finnish forests is considerably lower (Siitonen et al 1995; Mykrä et al 2000; Mayer et al 2005, 2006). This lowered forest age and heterogeneity has decreased available habitat in Finland for species that require large areas of old‐growth forest and has therefore increased the reliance of Finnish forest ecosystems on dispersal from mature and old‐growth forests in Russia (Danilov et al 1996; Kotiranta et al 1998; Lindén et al 2000).…”

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Disparate Geography of Consumption, Production, and Environmental Impacts

Ståhls

Mayer

Tikka

et al. 2010

J of Industrial Ecology

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Summary International trade transfers social and environmental impacts across national borders. The consumption of forest products often takes place far away from industrial production sites, and mills procure raw material from remote forests. Finland produces about 10% of forest products that are traded internationally, with the majority of its exports destined for other European countries. Here we report and analyze data that demonstrate that international leakage, in relative terms, increased faster than the production of commodities. The international consumption of products made in Finland increased, and an increase in wood imports from Russia provided the raw material for most of the incremental production. The international consumption‐production system translated the increasing global demand for Finnish products into increased harvests in Russia, until the Russian customs duties started to increase in 2007. We argue that national and regional policies for the promotion of sustainable consumption and production must be analyzed and assessed from an international, holistic perspective.

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Conservation implications of exporting domestic wood harvest to neighboring countries

Cited by 23 publications

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Price dynamics in the Russian–Finnish roundwood trade

Price dynamics in the Russian–Finnish roundwood trade

Forest transitions, trade, and the global displacement of land use

Disparate Geography of Consumption, Production, and Environmental Impacts

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