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WOOD AS A SOURCE OF ENERGY IN SWEDEN IN THE 17TH AND 18TH C. (Drewno jako zrodlo energii w nowozytnej Szwecji (XVII i XVIII w.))

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Majewska G.
Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej
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2008
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vol. 56
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issue 3-4
353-360
EN
The development of civilization in the modern period was largely conditioned by a country's forest resources. Wood was necessary to meet the basic needs of the people and was the most common source of energy. In Sweden in the 17th and 18th c. the principal branches of economy - mining, iron and copper metallurgy, the production of tar - were dependent on wood supply. Wood was the source of charcoal, which fuelled blast furnaces and forges. Sweden was exceptionally rich in forests. Over a half of the country's area (55%-60%) was covered in woods, of which only 20% was used in the 17th c. In the mid 17th c. coal-mining and metallurgy consumed 17% of wood, but the growing production of bar iron (which increased twofold in the 18th c) caused an increased demand for wood and charcoal. In order to maintain steady wood supply for the copper and iron industry and to prevent excessive wood cutting the production of bar iron and the export of wood were limited. Although Swedish forest resources were so rich, already in the mid 17th c. the inhabitants of mining regions were worried by the emergence of new foundries and complained about a shortage of wood (households consumed about 72% of wood production). The problem became more acute in the 18th c. Local shortages of wood recurred around large conglomerates of blast furnaces and forges, especially in Bergslagen. In the regions with highest demand for charcoal there were conflicts between peasants and foundry owners. The great advantages of using charcoal as a source of energy in the 18th c. was its high energetic effectiveness and the fact that it came from a renewable energy source.
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Lisohospodaryuvannya yak nova sotsio-ekoloho-ekonomichna paradyhma

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Yarova I. Y.
Mekhanizm Rehuluvannya Economiky
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2013
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vol. 2 (60)
45-52
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This article is devoted to the investigation of theoretical foundations of the concept «forestry» from the perspectives of transformation from nature exploitation to the nature managing in the forest complex. Structural elements (development and direct use of forests, forest transformation and arrangement, reproduction, intellectualization of the forest activity, creation and exploitation of new knowledge, deepening of creativity and spirituality) determine the directions of expansion of organizational and economic bases of sustainable, environmentally oriented forest management. Culture should have the great importance for the qualitative determination of forestry: social culture: the culture of the individual and social relations (in particular, it concerns the forest relationships); spiritual culture: ideas, knowledge, values and orientations; material culture: objects of labour, technology and labour. A content analysis of the concept «forestry» has shown that forest management is a particular form of the broader interpretation of sustainable forest management, forestry, and defined the organizational, economic, organizational and social forms of the environmentally oriented management.
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FOREST SECTOR: ANALYSIS OF THE STRUCTURE AND INTERRELATIONS WITH OTHER SECTORS OF ECONOMY AND ENVIRONMENT (Lisovyi sektor: analiz struktury, vzaiemodii z inshymy sektoramy ekonomiky ta dovkilliam)

88%
Deineka A. M.
Rehionalna ekonomika
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2009
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issue 3(53)
144-151
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The forest sector is analyzed as a dynamic structure in the context of national economy functioning, using a system theory approach and taking into account classification of economic activities and economic, environmental and social services related to its sector. The attention is paid to the role of different types of capital in the sector from the point of view of ecological economics theory. The institutional aspects of the sector development and the essence of interrelations with other sectors of economy have been analyzed.
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The Nigerian Challenge in Environmental Sustainability: Forest Economics and the Need for Conservation

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Nwosu J. E.
Mekhanizm Rehuluvannya Economiky
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2014
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vol. 2 (64)
22-29
EN
Forests impact on human lives in many ways. They serve as safe places of solitude for animals and habitat for biological diversities. Forests have supported recreational activities and provide important natural resource for generations of people. Many rural populations, including millions of impoverished people throughout the world are dependent on forests for their way of life. In other words, forests and it resources are their important source of food, shelter and means of livelihood. This notwithstanding, the loss of forest has continued on the downward trend. Today only 36 percent of the world’s forests are primary forests – forests that have never been disturbed by human activities on a large scale (Hirschberger, 2007). In Nigeria, deforestation has been identified as one of the causes of some other environmental problems in the country such as desertification and erosion and loss of biological diversity. Several efforts to preserve the forests in Nigeria have been made yet its decline has continued. The essence of this paper therefore is to identify the causes for the lost of forest around the globe with particular interest in Nigeria and to suggests ways of effective forest conservation.
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