Harvesting contractor production and costs in forest plantations of Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay

References

• ABRAF. 2009. Anuário estatístico da ABRAF. Ano base 2008. [ABRAF Annual statistics. Base year 2008]. Brasilia: ABRAF; p. 120. ISSN 1980-8550. Portuguese.
   Google Scholar
• Alves D. A. 2006. Terceirização. [Outsourcing] Em XIV: Seminário de Atualização em Sistemas de Colheita de Madeira e Transporte Florestal. Curitiba.: Ed. UFPR-FUPEF; p 47–54.
   Google Scholar
• Baker SA, Greene WD. 2008. Changes in Georgia’s logging workforce, 1987–2007. South J Appl For. 32(3):60–68.
   Google Scholar
• Barnden R, Orlando M. 2007. Risks and rewards. Forest, paper and packaging in South America. Overview. Pricewaterhouse & Coopers; 48 pp. www.pwc.com.
   Google Scholar
• Bauch SC, Amacher GS, Merry FD. 2007. Costs of harvesting, transportation and milling in the Brazilian Amazon: estimation and policy implications. For Policy Econ. 9(8):903–915.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Berg S, Bergström D, Nordfjell T. 2014. Simulating conventional and integrated stump- and round-wood harvesting systems: a comparison of productivity and costs. Int J For Eng. 25(2):138–155.
   Google Scholar
• Binda JA. 2002. Análise da terceirização na colheita florestal sob o ponto de vista do terceiro. [Forest harvesting outsourcing analysis from contractors view]. In: UFPR, Universidade Federal do Paraná (Paraná Federal University, Brazil), editor. XII Seminário de Atualização em Sistemas de Colheita de Madeira e Transporte Florestal. Curitiba: Ed. UFPR; p. 37–48. Portuguese.
   Google Scholar
• Boltz F, Holmes T, Carter D. 2003. Economic and environmental impacts of conventional and reduced impact logging in Tropical South America: a comparative review. For Policy Econ. 5:69–81.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Bravo Cerda R. 2004. Sector forestal Chileno: mitos y realidades. [Chilean forest sector: myths and realities]. In: UFPR, Universidade Federal do Paraná (Paraná Federal University, Brazil), editor. XII Seminário de Atualização em Sistemas de Colheita de Madeira e Transporte Florestal. Curitiba: Ed. UFPR; p. 109–126. Spanish.
   Google Scholar
• Carter D, Cubbage F. 1994. Technical efficiency and industry evolution in southern U.S. pulpwood harvesting. Can J For Res. 24:217–224.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Carter D, Cubbage F, Stokes B, Jakes P. 1994. Southern pulpwood harvesting productivity and cost changes between 1979 and 1987. Research Paper. NC-318. St. Paul: North Central Forest Experiment Station. p. 33.
   Google Scholar
• Cass R, Baker S, Greene D. 2009. Cost and productivity impacts of product sorting on conventional ground-based timber harvesting operations. For Prod J. 59(11/12):108–114.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Crechi E, Fassola H, Keller A, Barth S. 2006. Modelos de estimación del volumen individual de árboles con y sin corteza de Pinus taeda L. para la zona de Norte de Misiones, Argentine. [Pinus taeda L. stem volume models with and without bark, for the North of Misiones, Argentine]. In: Anales de las 12ª Jornadas Técnicas Forestales y Ambientales, 2006. Eldorado: FCF-UNaM; p. 14. Spanish.
   Google Scholar
• Cubbage F, Duncan D. 2001. Tendencias en faenas de cosecha de madera en el SE de EE.UU. In: Mac Donagh, Weber, editors. SilvoArgentine II. Cosecha y Transporte de Productos Forestales provenientes de Bosques de Cultivo. Eldorado: AFOA; p. 169–180.
   Google Scholar
• Cubbage F, Koesbandana S, Mac Donagh P, Rubilar R, Balmelli G, Morales Olmos V, De La Torre R, Murara M, Hoeflich V, Kotze H, et al. 2010. Global timber investments, wood costs, regulation, and risk. Biomass Bioenergy. 34(12):1667–1678.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cubbage F, Mac Donagh P, Balmelli G, Morales Olmos V, Bussoni A, Rubilar R, De La Torre R, Lord R, Huang J, Hoeflich V, et al. 2014. Global timber investments and trends, 2005-2011. N Z J For Sci. 44(Suppl 1):S7.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Di Fulvio F, Abbas D, Spinelli R, Acuna M, Ackerman P, Lindroos O. 2017. Benchmarking technical and cost factors in forest felling and processing operations in different global regions during the period 2013–2014. Int J For Eng. 28(2):94–105.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Díaz A, Mac Donagh P. 2001. Análisis económico de sistemas de cosecha de pinus sps. en Misiones, Argentine. [Pinus sps. harvesting system economic analysis in Misiones, Argentine]. In: Mac Donagh, Weber, editors. SilvoArgentine II. Cosecha y Transporte de Productos Forestales provenientes de Bosques de Cultivo. Eldorado: AFOA; p. 19–27. Spanish.
   Google Scholar
• Dodson E, Hayes S, Meek J, Keyes CR. 2015. Montana logging machine rates. Int J For Eng. 26(2):85–95.
   Google Scholar
• Eriksson M, Lindroos O. 2014. Productivity of harvesters and forwarders in CTL operations in northern Sweden based on large follow-up datasets. Int J For Eng. 25(3):179–200.
   Google Scholar
• Fernandes O. 2002. Diretrizes estratégicas para a consolidação da terceirização no setor florestal brasileiro. [Strategic guidelines to consolidate the outsourcing in Brazilian forest sector]. In: UFPR, Universidade Federal do Paraná [Paraná Federal University], editor. 12° Seminário de Atualização em Sistemas de colheita de madeira e transporte florestal, 2002, Anais. Curitiba: UFPR; p. 19–36. Portuguese.
   Google Scholar
• Greene D, Jackson B, Culpepper J. 2001. Georgia´s logging businesses, 1987 to 1997. For Prod J. 51(1):25–28.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Holmes TP, Blate GM, Zweede JC, Pereira R Jr, Barreto P, Boltz F, Bauch R. 2002. Financial and ecological indicators of reduced impact logging performance in the eastern Amazon. Forest ecol Manag. 163(1–3):93–110.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Hultaker O, Bohlin F. 2004. Developing the business: logging contractors’ strategic choices for profitability and work environment. In: Pajuoja H, Karppinen H, editors. Scandinavian forest economics 40. Proceedings of the Biennial Meeting of the Scandinavian Society of Forest Economics; May 12–15; Vantaa. p. 13–22.
   Google Scholar
• Laroze A. 2001. THP 1.5. Um sistema de planificación táctica de la cosecha forestal. [THP 1.5 A system for tactical forest harvesting planning]. In: Mac Donagh, Weber, editors. SilvoArgentine II. Cosecha y Transporte de Productos Forestales provenientes de Bosques de Cultivo. Eldorado: AFOA; p. 44–51. Spanish.
   Google Scholar
• Leite N. 1999. A terceirização no setor florestal. [The outsourcing in the forest sector]. Silvicultura. São Paulo. 19(78):36–40. Jun. Portuguese.
   Google Scholar
• Mac Donagh P, Cubbage F. 2006. Forests plantations, markets, and certification in the Southern Cone of America. In: Unión de Selvicultores del Sur de España, editor. International Congress on Cultivated Forests, Bilbao: USSE; p. 111–121.
   Google Scholar
• Martinelli L. 2001. Cosecha mecanizada y transporte de salicaceas en la región delta y continental. [Mechanized harvesting for Poplar and Willow in the delta and continental region]. In: Mac Donagh, Weber, editors. SilvoArgentine II. Cosecha y Transporte de Productos Forestales provenientes de Bosques de Cultivo. Eldorado: AFOA; p. 111–123. Spanish.
   Google Scholar
• Mendell B, Morales V, Bennadji Z, Moreno A, Siry J. 2007. Financing Uruguay’s forestry sector: survey and case study. J For. April/May:125–130.
   Google Scholar
• Okey O, Visser R. 2017. Operational efficiency analysis of New Zealand timber harvesting contractors using data envelopment analysis. Int J For Eng. DOI:10.1080/14942119.2017.1313489
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Siry J, Cubbage F, Sills E. 2003. Forest production. Chapter 5. In: Sills E, Abt K, editors. Forest in a market economy. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers; p. 59–78.
   Google Scholar
• Siry J, Greene WD, Harris T, Izlar R, Hamsley A, Eason K, Tye T, Baldwin S, Hyldahl C. 2006. Wood supply chain and fiber cost. What can we do better? For Prod J. 56(10):5–10.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Stein do Quadros D, Malinovski J. 2012. Análise econômica de empresas prestadoras de serviço florestal em duas regiões do estado de Santa Catarina. [Economic analysis of forest contractors firms in two regions of Santa Catarina State]. FLORESTA, Curitiba, PR. 42(1):35–48. Jan/Mar Portuguese.
   Google Scholar
• Stuart W, Grace LA, Grala RK. 2010. Returns to scale in the Eastern United States logging industry. For Policy Econ. 12(6):451–456.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Timber Mart-South. 2013 3rd Quarter. Abridged market news quarterly. Athens, GA: Warnell School of Natural Resources. University of Georgia; p. 11.
   Google Scholar