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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797118503321

Autore

Barr Brenton M.

Titolo

The Soviet wood-processing industry : a linear programming analysis of the role of transportation costs in location and flow patterns / / Brenton M. Barr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Toronto, Ontario] : , : Published for the University of Toronto Department of Geography by the University of Toronto Press, , 1970

©1970

ISBN

1-4426-5659-X

1-4426-3328-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (154 p.)

Collana

University of Toronto Department of Geography Research Publications ; ; 5

Disciplina

338.4/7/67480947

Soggetti

Forest products industry - Location - Soviet Union - Mathematical models

Electronic books.

Sowjetunion

Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- I Introduction -- II The Wood-Processing Industry -- III The Forest Resource -- IV The Market -- V The Locational Orientation of Wood-Processing and Associated Flow Patterns -- VI Transportation Costs and the Location of Wood-Processing -- VII Conclusions -- Appendices -- Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

Systematic study of the geography distribution of the wood-processing industry has received recent Soviet attention, yet the results have been disappointing. Soviet work has been descriptive and lacking in critical analysis of the location problem. In particular, there has been little, if any, attempt to assess the geographic distribution of the industry within the general context of location theory and to evaluate the role played by individual location factors. This monograph is a case study in the application of linear programming techniques to the analysis of transportation patterns within the wood-processing industry. It will add



to North American studies not only a knowledge of the location of wood-processing industries but also a better understanding of the factors which have influenced the location of wood-processing in the Soviet Union.(University of Toronto Department of Geography Research Publications No. 4).