Increasing forest disturbances caused by climate change will present challenges for the resilience of wood value chains. In recent decades, Europe has experienced a rise in forest disturbances, including storms, droughts, and bark beetle infestations, which have a significant impact on harvesting practices and lead to reduced roundwood prices. This presents significant challenges for forest owners. A lack of profitability may...

Purpose To model the overall social consequences of changing wood utilization, a system perspective is needed that encompasses the entire wood utilization system in a defined region. The aim of this study was to analyze the social performance of wood-based industries in Austria using sector-specific data and to use less disaggregated data to depict social risks in the resource extraction phase. Additionally, the social consequ...

Wood as a renewable material is relevant for climate change mitigation: Carbon sequestration in forests and carbon storage in harvested wood products (HWPs) contribute to carbon reduction in the atmosphere, and the substitution of carbon‐intensive products with wood products can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Since wood is a limited resource, it must be used efficiently and sustainably. Shifting wood from one applicati...

Purpose The introduction of renewable materials into automotive applications is perceived as an innovative lightweight solution. Wood-based materials are advantageous in that they have potentially lower environmental impacts as compared with other materials such as steel. However, using wood per se does not automatically ensure more sustainability. Few prospective sustainability assessment methods or studies on the use of wood...

Countries are responding to unsustainable resource extraction, rising emissions, and increasing waste streams by implementing national bioeconomy strategies. Assuming that the purpose of a bioeconomy is to replace fossil use by biogenic resource use, we estimate biomass and fossil raw material consumption (RMC) by applying multiregional input–output methodology for middle and high income countries. Next, we use a panel fixed e...