Why does the demand for forest wood decrease after around 1991?

Question

Refer to Figure 1 of the graph of this page http://earthtrends.wri.org/pdf_library/feature/for_fea_roundwood_complete.pdf

Answer 1

There was a world-wide economic recession around that year, especially in the housing markets. Home-building accounts for a lot of the wood demand.

Answer 2

Im guessing, that what this site sais is right, but i didnt look to far into it...:

"In 1991, it was predicted that at current deforestation rates, only scattered"remnants" of tropical rainforests will exist and a quarter of all species on Earth will be extinct by the time today's preschoolers retire."

And I found this from another site, "Brazilian deforestation is strongly correlated to the economic health of the country: the decline in deforestation from 1988-1991 nicely matched the economic slowdown during the same period"

Lots of factors, including the fact that people realised, destroying forests minimized the amount of O2 given off by the trees.In 1991, the amount deforested in the Amazon were, 4259 square miles. Also the figues rose again until the peak at 1995 when the deforstation for the amazon was 11,220 square miles. However in 2007, the amount deforested is 4334 square miles... I dunno research more! I hope I helped anyway!

Answer 3

Because thats around the time that science figured how much of a danger global warming was in reality. The more forested areas we have, the more carbon dioxide can be released into the atmosphere to bring photosynthesis back to normal. But since it,s been decades for a normal atmospheric balance, it will now take centuries for our planet to get back to a normal structure. I guess better late than never.