The Present Stage of Capital and Land-ownership on Forestry(Feature Articles for the Symposium)

Abstract

The forestry has been modified under the stage of global capitalism. This paper surveys the change from the viewpoints of capital and land-ownership. The forest rent theory had expected the frame of forestry competition between silvicultural forestry (domestic) and extract forestry (foreign), but the frame has shifted than their expectations. The silvicultural forestry in foreign countries is formed under the financial economy and the neo-liberalism. While Japanese forestry is in a category of extract forestry because demands from domestic capitals expands the log production without securing reforestation costs. The inversion is originated from the reorganization of forest-ownership that adapts to the global capitalism. Additionally, the current situation has resemblances to the period of expansive afforestation. This paper considers how the Forest Sector deals with those changes.