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Volume 66, Issue 3
Journal of Forest Economics
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2020 Volume 66 Issue 3 Pages Cover_1
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A Comparative Analysis of a Town with a Long History of Forestry and One with Burgeoning ForestryDaichi HAGA, Yohei KATANOArticle type: Article
2020 Volume 66 Issue 3 Pages 1-15
Published: 2020
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JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis study empirically explores the factors related to forest management behavior of non-industrial private forest owners (NIPFs), and analyzes the influence of the regional history of forestry on these factors. We conducted a mail survey of residents and absentee NIPFs from two towns in the Tottori Prefecture of Japan-Chizu, which has a long history of forestry, and Nichinan, where forestry has thrived since the 1950s. We developed four logistic models from four different samples (Chizu or Nichinan, resident or absentee). In addition, we reviewed the literature on the forestry of each town. The results indicate that forest size and recognition of forest area influenced forest management in all four models. Furthermore, legal registration was associated with forest management in three models, except in the Nichinan absentee model. Forest size had a greater impact on absentee owners than on resident owners, and in Chizu than in Nichinan. The Nichinan absentee model had a different structure. Chizu has a long history of forestry; therefore, the difference between residents and absentees can be minor. In Nichinan, forestry thrived after the 1950s, and commercial thinning has burgeoned since the 2000s. This indicates that local history can influence forest management behavior.View full abstractDownload PDF (746K) -
Masaya FUJINO, Akira OGASAWARA, Atsushi OHWAKIArticle type: Article
2020 Volume 66 Issue 3 Pages 16-25
Published: 2020
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JOURNAL FREE ACCESSLocal residents have traditionally managed semi-natural grasslands by mean of grazing, mowing, and prescribed burning. However, over the last century, many semi-natural grasslands have been reduced or are no longer managed. The purpose of this study is to clarify the factors associated with the interest in grasslands by local residents. A questionnaire survey was conducted on residents who lived in Shibokusa district, Oshino-village, Yamanashi Prefecture. Of the respondents, 37.9％ are currently use or manage the grassland or have used or managed it in the past. More than 80％ of the respondents answered that the grassland was important to them mainly as a cultural symbol, and their intention to continue its maintenance was strong. It was considered that the residents easily recognized that they indirectly used the grassland; thus it affected their interests even if their direct use was low. When analyzing factors affecting their intention to maintain the grassland using binomial logistic regression, we found that birth place was the most important factor. Just as the sense of belonging to the region was cultivated, the consciousness of the grassland as inherited from the ancestors was also cultivated. However, fewer people think that the grassland can be maintained in the future.View full abstractDownload PDF (2365K) -
Utako YAMASHITAArticle type: Article
2020 Volume 66 Issue 3 Pages 26-39
Published: 2020
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JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThis study investigates the establishment of Forest Producers’Cooperatives (FPCs), their engagement in forest management, the state of dissolution nationwide, and the challenges faced. The establishment of FPCs was triggered by (1) the consolidations of municipalities in the Showa era (1953-1961), (2) the modernization programs of common forests (1966-), and (3) the use of profit-sharing contracts. In Kochi Prefecture, some FPCs were established under specific profit-sharing contracts. In forest management terms, the number of FPCs performing thinning has declined significantly since the 1990s. Although approximately 10％ of FPCs have earned forestry income, 60％ have suffered losses. Consequently, dozens of cooperatives are being dissolved every year owing to management difficulties. After dissolution, forest management is typically transferred to authorized community organizations. FPCs have played a role in registering common forests in the name of an organization, but for FPCs that lack an adequate source of income, the financial demands of corporate operations and various corporate taxes have become a strain. Moreover, FPC membership rules on joining and withdrawal could transform a common entity into a group with different characteristics.View full abstractDownload PDF (735K) -
Tatsuya OWAKE, Noriko SATOArticle type: Article
2020 Volume 66 Issue 3 Pages 40-50
Published: 2020
Released on J-STAGE: March 29, 2021
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSAs forestry environments change yearly, management risk is important for logging contractors’stable management. In this study, we identified and evaluated the risks from the viewpoint of risk management for logging contractors. Risks were divided into five categories and further subdivided into nine categories. A questionnaire survey was conducted with authorized contractors in Miyazaki, Oita, and Kumamoto Prefectures to determine the frequency of occurrence and the degree of influence of the specific nine risks. It revealed that “accidental death” has a low frequency of occurrence but a high degree of influence on management, “unsecured worksites” has a low frequency and a moderate degree of influence, and “machine failure” has a high frequency but a low degree of influence. Other risks had a moderate frequency of occurrence and degree of influence. It can be deduced that the influence on management can be reduced by preventing the occurrence of “accidental death” and suppressing the occurrence of “machinefailures”. It is assumed that the risk of “unsecured worksites” has already been suppressed because the work of the contractors stops when it occurs. For the other six risks, risk treatment needs to be taken into account for “internal risks” and “external risks” that the contractors can control or not.View full abstractDownload PDF (530K) -
Koji ARAI, Satoshi TACHIBANAArticle type: Article
2020 Volume 66 Issue 3 Pages 51-62
Published: 2020
Released on J-STAGE: March 29, 2021
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSImproving the productivity of forestry is a long-term issue in Japan. Labor productivity is a common measure when considering productivity of Japanese forestry, while more comprehensive indices are desired for multifactor productivity. The purposes of this paper are to grasp the productivity changes and their regional differences in the Japanese logging industry. We analyzed Total Factor Productivity (TFP) separately for final cutting and thinning using survey data from 1990 to 2017 provided by the Japanese Forestry Agency. The Törnkvist TFP index was used to analyze the nation-wide average TFP change, and the Multilateral TFP index with circularity was used to measure regional TFP changes. The results show that the TFP of final cutting grew at 1.35％ per year over the period of 1990-2017. The TFP of thinning declined at 1.07％ per year over the period of 2006-2017. Regional analyses revealed that Hokkaido, Tohoku, and Kyushu regions had higher TFP levels in 2017 for both final cutting and thinning. We also estimated Cobb-Douglas production functions to analyze the economies of scale for the years 2016 and 2017 as a factor which changes TFP in the Japanese logging industry. The results showed that final cutting and thinning had constant returns to scale.View full abstractDownload PDF (647K)
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