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Wood based products and adoption of forest management strategies for a sustainable bioeconomy: a socio-economic assessment

This PhD research investigates alternative pathways for the European forest sector to mitigate climate change, while considering preservation of biodiversity and delivery of other forest related ecosystem services. It particularly focuses on the potential of long- and short lived wood products to sequester carbon. It starts with mapping current and future trends in demand for wood and wood-based products and associated needs in wood properties. Next, it continues with an assessment of consumers’ preferences for long- and short-lived wood products, forest management alternatives and their related ecosystem services & biodiversity. Further, forest managers’ preferences for the adoption of management alternatives will be assessed. In a concluding chapter, the above insights will be gathered to assess the feasibility of a payment for forest ecosystem services (including carbon sequestration) scheme.

Date:10 Jan 2023 →  Today
Keywords:Bioeconomy, Forestry
Disciplines:Agricultural and natural resource economics, environmental and ecological economics
Project type:PhD project