TY - JOUR
T1 - The China forest products trade: Overview of Asia-Pacific supplying countries, impacts and implications
AU - Katsigris, E
AU - Bull, G Q
AU - White, A
AU - Barr, Christopher
AU - Barney, Keith
AU - Bun, Y
AU - Kahrl, F
AU - King, T
AU - Lankin, A
AU - Lebedev, A
AU - Shearman, Philip L.
AU - Sheingauz, A
AU - Su, Yufang
AU - Weyerhaeuser, H
PY - 2004
Y1 - 2004
N2 - Over 70 % of China’s timber product imports are supplied by countries in the Asia Pacific region, and China is the dominant
forest product market for many of these countries. Unsustainable harvesting practices, illegal logging, and negative impacts
on community livelihoods plague many of these supplying countries. The countries may be divided into those still harvesting
and exporting timber from natural forests on a large scale and those which have gone past their highest levels of natural
forest timber harvesting and are now more aggressively pursuing plantation development and processing. Apart from
Russia, China’s top Asia Pacific timber suppliers could at best maintain current supply, with natural forest resources being
depleted in less than 20 years. Resource limits also constrain expansion and/or long-term continuation of processed product
export to China. Greater attention and action on the part of governments, market leaders, and international organizations
is needed to address negative impacts, shifting supply to a sustainable, legal, and equitable basis and to determine from
where China’s long-term supply will come.
AB - Over 70 % of China’s timber product imports are supplied by countries in the Asia Pacific region, and China is the dominant
forest product market for many of these countries. Unsustainable harvesting practices, illegal logging, and negative impacts
on community livelihoods plague many of these supplying countries. The countries may be divided into those still harvesting
and exporting timber from natural forests on a large scale and those which have gone past their highest levels of natural
forest timber harvesting and are now more aggressively pursuing plantation development and processing. Apart from
Russia, China’s top Asia Pacific timber suppliers could at best maintain current supply, with natural forest resources being
depleted in less than 20 years. Resource limits also constrain expansion and/or long-term continuation of processed product
export to China. Greater attention and action on the part of governments, market leaders, and international organizations
is needed to address negative impacts, shifting supply to a sustainable, legal, and equitable basis and to determine from
where China’s long-term supply will come.
U2 - 10.1505/ifor.6.3.237.59980
DO - 10.1505/ifor.6.3.237.59980
M3 - Article
SN - 1465-5489
VL - 6
SP - 237
EP - 253
JO - International Forestry Review
JF - International Forestry Review
IS - 3-4
ER -