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This study investigates the need for change of current forest management approaches in a southern Swedish region within the context of future climate change mitigation through empirically derived projections, rather than forest management according to silvicultural guidelines. Scenarios indicate that climate change mitigation will increase global wood demand. This might call for adjustments of well-established management approaches. This study investigates to what extent increasing wood demands in three climate change mitigation scenarios can be satisfied with current forest management approaches of different intensities in a southern Swedish region. Forest management practices in Kronoberg County were mapped through interviews, statistics, and desk research and were translated into five different management strategies with different intensities regulating management at the property level. The consequences of current practices, as well as their intensification, were analyzed with the Heureka Planwise forest planning system in combination with a specially developed forest owner decision simulator. Projections were done over a 100-year period under three climate change mitigation scenarios developed with the Global Biosphere Management Model (GLOBIUM). Current management practices could meet scenario demands during the first 20 years. This was followed by a shortage of wood during two periods in all scenarios unless rotations were reduced. In a longer timeframe, the wood demands were projected to be easily satisfied in the less ambitious climate change mitigation scenarios. In contrast, the demand in the ambitious mitigation scenario could not be met with current management practices, not even if all owners managed their production forests at the intensive extreme of current management approaches. The climate change mitigation scenarios provide very different trajectories with respect to future drivers of forest management. Our results indicate that with less ambitious mitigation efforts, the relatively intensive practices in the study region can be softened while ambitious mitigation might push for further intensification.

Wood by-products, i.e. waste from consecutive stages of roundwood processing in the production of wood materials and products, are significant in the rational management of raw wood material resources. They are a supplementary source of wood – an alternative to primary sources. This article presents results of research on the market of wood by-products in Poland in 2015, their resources and flows in various applications. Due to the lack of full and reliable information on the Polish market in those products, the research was based on a methodical solution using a model approach supplemented with a fragmentary survey and expert’s knowledge. The research revealed that potential resources of wood by-products created in the wood sector in Poland amounted to more than 13 million m³ in 2015 (with imports included, the quantity was 14.8 million m³ ), of which it was estimated that 6.2 million m³ was intended for material processing, 5.8 million m³ for energy purposes, and approximately 1 million m³ for other purposes. It also showed that 61% of those resources (9.1 million m³ ) was directly used in the wood sector for both production and energy purposes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Many changes pertaining to raw materials, equipments and technical methodologies, used in wood based industries, have been introduced in the recent past in tarai region of the state. Economic and technological developments have altered the use of wood; all these factors have been taken into consideration. Market research, therefore, calls for increased inputs in the face of absence of adequate market information system, shortage of wood raw material, growing compulsion to use plantation and agro forestry species etc. These areas playing pivotal role in the development of wood industry and are given special emphasis in the present study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The global demand for wood is set to increase significantly over the next two decades. The growth is to be particularly pronounced in the Asia Pacific, and timber plantations are expected to be a major source of wood fiber. Indonesia is taking steps to meet the global demand for wood by expanding its pulp production and timber plantations. However, there are concerns about the environmental trade-offs of this expansion. The pulp sector continues to rely on natural forests for timber. The size and productivity of timber plantations are uncertain because of unreliable data. The employment and poverty alleviation potential of the pulp sector are overstated. The pulp sector continues to attract large-scale foreign capital due to high returns on undervalued timber from natural forest. However, environmentally and socially, it is a high-risk investment. The pulp sector in Indonesia can be environmentally sustainable and economically profitable, but the conversion of natural forest must be stopped; the use of non-forest land for plantations must be maximized; and smallholder tree-growing schemes must be made simpler and more attractive. Careful revision of the pulp growth targets and greater investor due diligence are needed to ensure a more sustainable future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: SIMPLOT is a forest simulator for eucalyptus mainly driven by wood demand. It was developed to predict the evolution of the eucalyptus plantations in Portugal by combining forest inventory data with growth models taking into account the effect of different drivers such as wood demand, hazards occurrence and percentage of land use changes. The use of simulators for scenario analysis can be a powerful tool to explore policy options and to illustrate the consequences of different management alternatives. In the past years Portugal has been marked by extremely severe forest fires of great environmental impact. This paper shows simulation runs for two main scenario lines: the wood demand line and the wildfires line. In the first one, the simulator is used to identify a reasonable wood demand out of three different wood demands combined with a low/medium intensity fire scenario. The selected wood demand combined with three fire scenarios of increasing severity and a fourth one disregarding the existence of recent severe wildfires builds the second scenario line. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of different magnitudes of forest fires occurrence on the sustainability of eucalyptus plantations starting with NFI data gathered in 1997 during a horizon of 28 years. The simulations reflect a constant level of afforestation and deforestation and assume that no changes took place between different management alternatives. These simulations provide some insight on the impact of different wood demand and different magnitudes/frequency of severe wildfires: it is not only the number and magnitude of severe wildfires that make a difference, but it is also the number and magnitude of medium wildfires that follow an extremely severe one. Furthermore, the inter-annual variability of wildfire occurrence affects carbon stock and carbon sequestration in a different way. The occurrence of severe wildfires has an immediate effect on carbon sequestration. The lower values are registered in the same year in which the most severe wildfires occur. On the other hand, the occurrence of severe wildfires has more permanent consequences on carbon stocks than on carbon sequestration. The more severe and numerous are the wildfires the more difficult and at long-term will be to recover the carbon stocks in the forest. Results have also shown that if a higher wood demand compatible with the expected increase of pulp industry capacity would have been considered this would have had drastic impacts on eucalyptus forest sustainability due to overharvesting in order to meet the desired wood demand. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

This research introduces a framework for tracking the state of the forest industry and relative competitiveness at the local level and applies it to the state of Georgia. Key insights highlight how localized forestry and forest industry profiles indicate where wood demand and supplies are in and out of balance on an annual basis. Alternately, localized profiles that emphasize physiographic regions may not correspond well with traditional wood procurement areas. More importantly, ongoing tracking of wood supply viability and competitive analysis must distinguish between timber markets (stumpage, forest inventories and removals, and growth) and end product commodity markets (lumber, pulp, oriented strand board, and plywood). Mills, like forests, are not uniformly distributed throughout a state, whether measured by size, type, or end product. Tracking the forest industry in a localized, annual manner can support ongoing planning, investment, and policymaking activities in a targeted and efficient manner. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We used the European Forest Information Scenario Model (EFISCEN) to project the development of forest resources for 15 European countries from 2000 to 2100 under a broad range of climate scenarios, which were based on the a1fi, a2, b1 and b2 storylines of the Special Report on Emissions Scenarios of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Each climate scenario was associated with consistent land-use change and wood demand assumptions. Climate change-induced growth changes were incorporated into the calculations by scaling inventory-based stem growth in EFISCEN by net primary productivity estimated from the Lund–Potsdam–Jena dynamic global vegetation model. The impact of changes in wood demand, climate and forest area were studied separately, and in combination, in order to assess their respective effects. For all climate scenarios under consideration, climate change resulted in increased forest growth, especially in Northern Europe. In Southern Europe, higher precipitation in spring and the projected increased water-use efficiency in response to rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations mitigated the effects of increasing summer drought. Climate change enhanced carbon sequestration in tree biomass. The climate change-induced increase in tree growth led to a faster increase in growing stocks compared with the simulation using current climate. As productivity decreased in higher stocked forests, the positive impact of climate change began to level off during the second half of the 21st century in the scenarios where wood demand was low. Afforestation measures had the potential to increase growing stock and annual increment; however, large areas were needed to obtain notable effects. Despite noticeable differences in the growth response between the climate scenarios, changes in wood demand proved to be the crucial driving force in forest resource development. Tree carbon stocks increased by 33–114% between 2000 and 2100 when only changes in wood demand were regarded. Climate change added another 23–31% increase, while changes in forest area accounted for an additional increase of 2–40%. Our results highlight potential future pathways of forest resource development resulting from different scenarios of wood demand, land use and climate changes, and stress the importance of resource utilization in the European forest carbon balance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study investigates the need for change of current forest management approaches in a southern Swedish region within the context of future climate change mitigation through empirically derived projections, rather than forest management according to silvicultural guidelines. Scenarios indicate that climate change mitigation will increase global wood demand. This might call for adjustments of well-established management approaches. This study investigates to what extent increasing wood demands in three climate change mitigation scenarios can be satisfied with current forest management approaches of different intensities in a southern Swedish region. Forest management practices in Kronoberg County were mapped through interviews, statistics, and desk research and were translated into five different management strategies with different intensities regulating management at the property level. The consequences of current practices, as well as their intensification, were analyzed with the Heureka Planwise forest planning system in combination with a specially developed forest owner decision simulator. Projections were done over a 100-year period under three climate change mitigation scenarios developed with the Global Biosphere Management Model (GLOBIUM). Current management practices could meet scenario demands during the first 20 years. This was followed by a shortage of wood during two periods in all scenarios unless rotations were reduced. In a longer timeframe, the wood demands were projected to be easily satisfied in the less ambitious climate change mitigation scenarios. In contrast, the demand in the ambitious mitigation scenario could not be met with current management practices, not even if all owners managed their production forests at the intensive extreme of current management approaches. The climate change mitigation scenarios provide very different trajectories with respect to future drivers of forest management. Our results indicate that with less ambitious mitigation efforts, the relatively intensive practices in the study region can be softened while ambitious mitigation might push for further intensification. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]