forest technology Articles
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Foresight for European coordination: developing national priorities for the Forest-Based Sector Technology Platform
We explore what implications the geographical dispersion of foresight participants and their regional idiosyncrasies have for the management of foresight processes. Specifically, we argue that these kinds of multi-stakeholder processes place demands such as scalability , modularity and dependability on the design and deployment of foresight methodologies. We also report a Finnish ...
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Optimisation of renewable forest fuel supply for more sustainable energy production of CHP plant in Finland
In this study, a potential fuel procurement planning model to sustainable energy production problems is considered. In Finland peat is commonly used as a fuel of energy plants. However, it is recently considered as non-renewable fuel. Therefore, we tested the model using Finnish Government’s peat fuel tax policy decisions for sustainable energy production. However, due to the complex nature ...
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Industrial development on logging frontiers in the Brazilian Amazon
In this paper, we review the concept of forest sector industrialisation and technology adoption with the goal of identifying reasons that have shaped the technological development, or lack thereof, in the Brazilian forest sector. The image of the timber industry in the Amazon has been one of excessive harvest, deforestation, and arguable misuse of a renewable resource. In this paper, we use the ...
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The value of forest biotechnology: a cost modelling study with loblolly pine and kraft linerboard in the southeastern USA
Commercialisation of biological technologies for forest tree species is driven by the promise of dramatically lower raw material costs, maximal processing efficiencies, minimal environmental impacts and improved product performances. The economic value of such biotechnological changes to wood property traits in forest trees have not been well quantified due to the complexity of producing wood and ...
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