Resources and restructuring in the international solid wood products industry

摘要: Abstract In the 1980s, U.S. solid wood products industry (SWPI) has undergone a significant restructuring, characterized by changes in product and process technology, employment relation, structure of markets, geography. Concomitantly, international SWPI seen major shifts geography production trade, particularly Pacific Rim where Southeast Asian countries are increasing their share processed exports Japan become importer unprocessed raw materials from Although is resource-oriented industry, industrial geographers other analysts have largely ignored ways which forest resource base affected restructuring SWPI. We attempt to rectify this omission, situating our analysis relationship between resources change within an explicitly nondeterministic epistemology that acknowledges role every social natural constituting other. This allows us analyse multidimensional impact on without resorting environmental determinism or dilute reductionism multicausal explanation. The emphasis also identify intervene both processes promote retention jobs retard reverse degradation currently associated with Third World countries.