Publisher's Synopsis
The book provides comprehensive background information on the global forest sector, and a state of the art exposition of forest sector modeling. There is detailed documentation of the IIASA global forest sector model and results of a set of scenario runs made with the model. The book includes sections on forest resources and timber supply, modeling of forest products, manufacture and demand, and information on international trade in forest products and recent advances in modeling trade.;This book is the work of internationally distinguished scientists and managers brought together by the IIASA Forest Sector Project to form a cooperating network. It is probably the first book of its kind ever written about the forest sector, and it is the culmination of five years' work on global forest sector modeling by more than 100 collaborators.
