Theses and Dissertations
Issuing Body
Mississippi State University
Advisor
Munn, Ian A.
Committee Member
Sun, Changyou
Committee Member
Grado, Stephen C.
Date of Degree
5-13-2006
Document Type
Graduate Thesis - Open Access
Major
Forestry
Degree Name
Master of Science
College
College of Forest Resources
Department
Department of Forestry
Abstract
The timberlands in the South provide a large resource base for forest-based industry. This resource base is utilized to provide major contributions to the southern economy. Aruna et al. (1997) examined southern forest-based industry economic contributions from the early 1990?s. This study examined the change in economic contributions primarily using 2001 data. In 1992, southern forest-based industries provided 633,367 (full- and part-time) jobs and this increased to 718,176 in 2001, accounting for only 1.3% of the total employment in the South versus 1.5%. Forest-based earnings in the South experienced a real increase of $181 million (1990 dollars) from 1990 to 1998 and accounted for 1.7% of total southern U.S. earnings in both years. The value of shipments attributed to southern forest-based industries increased $22.8 billion in real 1991 dollars which translated into a real increase of $11.0 billion (1991 dollars) in valueded between 1991 and 2001. In 2001, value of shipments increased to 9.6% of the South?s total from 7.8% in 1991 and valueded increased from 8.0% in 1991 to 9.1% in 2001. Although there were increases in the economic contributions of southern forest-based industries, overall there was little in the way of relative change over this time period.
URI
https://hdl.handle.net/11668/17504
Recommended Citation
Tilley, Bart K., "Evaluating Change In Regional Economic Contributions Of Forest-Based Industries In The South" (2006). Theses and Dissertations. 1946.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/td/1946