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Market chain FPN - Forest products networks. Jean Marc Roda. DESCRIPTION / RATIONALE. Production system of forest products should be understood as: Industrial organization and renewable resource management are linked. Local and global factors are not independent but dynamically structured.
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Market chainFPN - Forest products networks Jean Marc Roda
DESCRIPTION / RATIONALE • Production system of forest products should be understood as: • Industrial organization and renewable resource management are linked. • Local and global factors are not independent but dynamically structured. • Forest Products Networks analysis is useful to understand the “organized complexity” of resource use.
PURPOSE • The Forest Product Network analysis investigate production system complexity: • interactions, • material and information flows, • and feedback loops • It aims to build conceptual models, understand stakeholders’ behaviors.
PARTICIPANTS • Researchers and experts, interview stakeholders, audit the small and big enterprises, and measure and assess the forestry, processing, and marketing issues. • Multidisciplinary approach.
METHOD • Steps: • Bottom-up analysis of the apparent chain, starting from the final market to the forest, • Explore the branches of the chain, and eventually discover transversal chains, • Repeating the process until completing the map of the system under the form of a network, • Enlarging the scope by repeating the work at the broader scale, or focusing the scope by repeating the work at smaller scales
Step 1 Step 2 Step n Steps of network analysis (Roda) Forest Retailer
Observations • Stakeholders, companies • Their relationships • Analysis of wood material flows • Trends and periodicities of flows,
Systemic model. South-Indian timber network Kerala-Karnataka sub-system (Roda)
Outputs • Diagrams and maps, • Multi-scale models, • Identification of the key stakeholders and their relationships • Identification of limiting factors, bottlenecks • Prospective scenarios,
The theoritical background • Theories of Systems Dynamics, General System Theory, Communication Theory (Forrester, Von Bertalanfly, Shannon & Weaver), • Theories of the firm (Williamson, Aoki, Chandler, Coase, Mintzberg, Piore & Sabel…). • Economical and sociological tools from the science of industrial districts, industrial clusters, value chains, etc (Schmidtz, Humphrey, Cadène, Holstrom…)
Other comments • Other works A. Bertrand on fueld wood. • Similarities with the value chains methodology (Schmidtz), • But differs from it by the emphasis on the resource / biological system, and since FPN is very sensible to the retroactions and side relations and branches, scoping on the complete network rather on the single chain.
Material flows in the South-Indian timber network : Tiruchengodu sub-system (Roda)
Economic flows in the South-Indian timber network : Tamil Nadu sub-system (Roda)