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Manufacture and trade of cork products: an international perspective
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Do the changes in the cork industry and trade in recent decades favor the preservation of cork oak trees? There is no clear answer to this question. Some facts seem to be in favor and others against preservation. Among the latter are the decrease in size of the cork business and its foreign trade and the reduction in the number of supplying and demanding countries for cork products. Likewise, the reduction in productive diversification and the need for stopper specialization do not favor preservation. These changes are converting cork into a monoproduct industry whose vulnerability increases as competition from stoppers made with other materials increases. These factors probably have contributed to the stagnation or decrease in the area of cork oak woodlands and the amount of raw cork production in the last fifty years (Mendes 2002; Voth 2009). Among the factors that favor preservation, manufacturers’ bold efforts to improve quality and defend the advantages of cork products must be highlighted. But this endeavor should be echoed by woodland owners, something that has rarely happened. Yet the involvement of raw cork producers is indispensable for the cork business, whose macroeconomic importance has declined drastically, to become widely acknowledged as a sustainable economic activity. Such involvement would reinforce the position of cork in the market against complementary or substitute products
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Economic History Cork Industry Cork Products Manufacturing Industry’s Development International Trade Preservation of Cork
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Zapata, Santiago … [et al.]. (2009). “Manufacture and trade of cork products: an international perspective”. In Cork Oak Woodlands on the Edge: Ecology, Adaptive Management, and Restoration, James Aronson, João S. Pereira, and Juli G. Pausas (Editors). Chapter 16. Society for Ecological Restoration International. Publisher by Island Press.
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Island Press