Showing papers in "Forest Policy and Economics in 2020"

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employed content analysis on interview data gathered from managers in Finnish SME companies from the field of packaging, textiles, composite materials, cosmetics and pharmaceutical products.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the impact of COVID-19 measures on forest visitation in an urban context around Bonn (Germany) between April 2019 and February 2020 and found that visitor numbers more than doubled.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that a necessary but still missing component in national strategies for implementing actions under the Paris Agreement is needed to increase the total forest area and avoid deforestation, connect mitigation with adaptation measures to enhance the resilience of global forest resources, and use wood for products that store carbon and substitute emission-intensive fossil and non-renewable products and materials.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors take stock of wood cascading research and identify major influencing factors for its realization to provide a comprehensive knowledge base for discussions about the circular economy in forest and related bio-based industries.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multi-level perspective of potential drivers and barriers of the forest sector in Italy is presented, in order to gain an in-depth understanding of the conditions influencing the sector's transition towards a circular bioeconomy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyse the emergence and evolution of the Finnish wood-frame multi-storey construction from a technological innovation system perspective, paying attention to niche creation and regime destabilisation functions and motors of creative destruction.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used value chain analysis and system dynamics modeling to understand how the moratorium, peatland conservation, agrarian reform, and the EU biodiesel ban affect plantation expansion and production, employment, CO2 emissions, smallholder incomes, private sector, and government.

TL;DR: The authors conducted a survey involving 17,346 respondents from 28 European countries to estimate which and how much of these products are collected and found that 26% of European households collect mushrooms, berries and other non-wood forest products (NWFPs).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors identify the lessons to promote social forestry schemes from economic, environmental, institutional, and social perspectives and find that economic opportunity is the main benefit of social forestry implementation, while social and environmental challenges seem to be the major implementation barriers.

TL;DR: In this article, a three-phase Delphi study, including a SWOT-Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), was conducted to empirically assess and prioritize factors that affect the diffusion and implementation of the biorefinery concept in the European PPI.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the transition of Finnish FBS firms to new business models, with a focus on the organizational resources and capabilities needed for transition, and identify the important elements in the business environment and the role of innovations in this process.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ a two-step methodology involving a fuzzy inference simulation, to assess the most suitable policy mixes to promote forest sector development and find the policy mix that performs best in pushing the bio-based forest to evolve in a circular and innovative trajectory, combining "climate mitigation policies" with "sustainable forest management policies,” "R&D policies" and "awareness raising policies".

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an overview of what the European forest-based bioeconomy research field looks like by mapping actual research activity in the field, based on projects from the EU framework programmes and the European Research Area, supplemented with data on self-reported research capacities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated an unresolved question in environmental economics: an Environmental Kuznets Curve for Deforestation (EKCd) based on a 55-year panel of forest cover data reconstructed from the periodic national forest inventories of 114 countries clustered in low, middle, and high income groups.

TL;DR: A review of the literature on the environmental Kuznets curve for deforestation (EKCd) is presented in this paper, where the authors discuss the potential of a second turning point occurring for higher levels of development.

TL;DR: In this paper, the gravity model approach is applied on forest product group 44, 47, 48, 49 and 94 by using panel data from period 2001 to 2018, and the Hausman test is used for suitable model selection.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimated timber investment returns for 22 countries and 54 management regimes in 2017, for a range of global timber plantation species and countries at the stand level, using capital budgeting criteria, without land costs, at a real discount rate of 8%.

TL;DR: A review of the current state of the art on bioeconomy can be found in this paper, where the authors identify four main research strands of social and political science-related bio-economy research.

TL;DR: In this paper, a mixed methodological approach that combines quantitative methods of network mapping with qualitative interpretations for unpacking the network discourse is suggested, through a series of semi-structured interviews with key actors in the wood-based bioeconomy network.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a framework to evaluate research impact, which they have piloted on 12 case studies led by Forest Research, a government research agency in UK and found that the breadth of impact types identified in the framework stimulated researchers to think beyond "instrumental" impact and identify other changes generated by their work.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on income diversification of cocoa farmers in Ghana as a strategy to cope with climate change and provide recommendations for policy and decision-makers to enhance diversification strategies in the country's cocoa sector, such as the provision of financial credits, farm input subsidies, and farmers' training on farm management.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed whether the deforestation context and the presence of conservation strategies, such as command and control and incentive-based conservation, influence forest and agricultural income generated by rural farmers.

TL;DR: The authors explored the potential of Amazon indigenous agroforestry practices and forest understandings for making global forest governance more nuanced and thus rethinking the value of forests in the context of multiple global crises.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of existing literature on the bioeconomy, the circular economy and biorefinery concepts is presented to summarize a set of working principles aligned with high levels of socioeconomic and environmental performance.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors compare the legal framework applicable in the mid-1990s with that applicable in 2015, using the Property Rights Index in Forestry (PRIF) to measure changes across time and space.

TL;DR: In this paper, a qualitative analysis of 14 thematic interviews conducted with actor network members in Finland regarding the concept of bioeconomy, their opinions differ broadly, ranging from seeing the concept as a Trojan horse, i.e., a new term for driving old political agendas, to a totally new way of organizing a sustainable future.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors conduct an interdisciplinary, systematic review of literature to examine the link between environmental sustainability initiatives and firm competitiveness, and draw several key lessons from this literature that must be considered in order to refine and strengthen the competitiveness logic within a circular bioeconomy context.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyzed how oil palm cultivation by smallholder farmers is associated with nutrition through changing income and gender roles, and found that female off-farm employment is positively associated with nutritional and dietary quality.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply the Common International Classification of Ecosystem Services (CICES) framework to structure ecosystem services to explore how well indigenous perspectives are represented in the context of forest ecosystems.