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Forest Certification Effect And Government Policy Choices Study

Posted on:2012-06-04Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z J GuanFull Text:PDF
GTID:1119330344450643Subject:Forestry Economics and Management
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Human have paid more and more attention to sustainable development, and forestry has played an important role in the process of it in the society, forest certification promotes forest sustainable management and is useful for forestry sustainable development. Therefore, we research in-depth operating mechanism,effects of forest certification, and the government's policy choice to identify specific policy responses, which will have certain significance. Researching process has applied the following methods:the qualitative and quantitative analysis, specification and empirical analysis, partial and general equilibrium combination.The studying is concluded as follows:forest certification has good externalities, has a better environmental benefit, social and economic benefits; in the view of certified products, as long as the certificating forest products markets have expanded, the social welfare will increase; from the perspective of international trade, forest certification promotes forestry sustainable development, boosts international trade, on the other hand certified product's cost increases, which blockes trade development; from the point of a social welfare, the analysis of partial equilibrium and general equilibrium have given the different results; from the analysis of the generated shell structure of forest certification, give the necessary support in certificating process, under the increase of certified products in volume and price, forestry enterprise will earn more; forest certification has become one of implementing tools of green procurement of forest products for the main countries in the world; from the point of the game between nations, forest certification has become a policying tool between countries, and it has ever been implemented. The game between enterprises and enterprise, government and enterprises in different forest certification standards will result in the different outcomes; from the supporting effects of policies for forest certification, production subsidies was best; forest certification for China's government policies should be applied is to make full use of market to push, implement the necessary subsidies, increase the building certification market, while companies actively cooperate with this policy.
Keywords/Search Tags:forest certification, effect, externality, social welfare, policy choice
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