On Oct. 21, representatives of the world’s governments will gather in Cali, Colombia for two weeks of negotiations, side ...

Globalization presents a number of problems for Political Science. This is because the various trends, processes and structures usually lumped together under the heading of globalization are not ...

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This paper uses a model of horizontal multinational enterprises to explore the relationship between transportation costs and trade policy cooperation. The model predicts a strong regional bias in ...

This report sets an initial framework for developing a truly sustainable forestry sector. It explains why Canada must set aside large tracts of ecologically important forests, significantly reduce the ...

Third-quarter sales of paper and packaging goods drove financial growth in the U.S. forest products industry enabling continued improvement in companies' balance sheets, according to Fitch Ratings' ...

Some forest landowners never harvest trees because they are afraid that logging would be ugly. Some worry about soil erosion. However, many simply don't know how valuable their trees are or how a well ...

Citizens here are turning dead lodgepole pines into pencils and pens, log homes, furniture, pellet fuel and more - hoping to make a buck and avert a potential disaster. Residents fret that millions of ...

Payments for environmental services (PES) represent a new, more direct way to promote conservation. They explicitly recognize the need to address difficult trade-offs by bridging the interests of ...

With 96 percent of the world's population living outside of the United States, Governor Bush recognizes that the future prosperity of America's farmers depends on expanding markets overseas. He is ...

Giant sequoia trees are tough, long-lived organisms. Their survival strategy, perfected over millions of years, is to live for dozens of centuries. Most everyone knows this, but much of what the trees ...

I was travelling through some villages in Wardha district recently, talking to farmers. Wardha is situated in the cotton growing belt of Maharashtra and its farmers are quite aware about agricultural ...