Meeting Challenges in Forestry: Improving Performance and Competitiveness
Improving the efficiency of the forestry sector will have an important impact on our possibility to attain long-term sustainability and mitigate climate change. In this study, attainable, and sustainable, efficiency improvements in the harvesting of forest products are analyzed using Data Envelopmen...
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| description | Improving the efficiency of the forestry sector will have an important impact on our possibility to attain long-term sustainability and mitigate climate change. In this study, attainable, and sustainable, efficiency improvements in the harvesting of forest products are analyzed using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The price impacts of the efficient harvesting volumes are evaluated in a second step using a spatial forest sector model. The results indicate that the harvested volumes of forest products, both for the industry and energy sectors, can be significantly increased if a more efficient forest management is adopted. This supply-side effect will also result in general price decreases for sawlogs, pulpwood, fuelwood and harvesting residues. However, in certain counties, and for specific forest products, the estimated decreasing price effect from a more efficient forest management cannot fully offset the increasing price effect of the energy sector expanding its use of forest products. More forest biomass enters the market, which is needed in the transition towards a bioeconomy, and the increased availability of forest biomass will restrict the price effect making investments in the bioeconomy more likely to be profitable. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-176560b64dd94e249caf42295b2d24ba2023-12-03T13:14:31ZengMDPI AGForests1999-49072021-02-0112220810.3390/f12020208Meeting Challenges in Forestry: Improving Performance and CompetitivenessRobert Lundmark0Tommy Lundgren1Elias Olofsson2Wenchao Zhou3ETS/Economics, Luleå University of Technology, SE-971 87 Luleå, SwedenDepartment of Forest Economics, Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-901 83 Umeå, SwedenETS/Economics, Luleå University of Technology, SE-971 87 Luleå, SwedenDepartment of Forest Economics, Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SE-901 83 Umeå, SwedenImproving the efficiency of the forestry sector will have an important impact on our possibility to attain long-term sustainability and mitigate climate change. In this study, attainable, and sustainable, efficiency improvements in the harvesting of forest products are analyzed using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The price impacts of the efficient harvesting volumes are evaluated in a second step using a spatial forest sector model. The results indicate that the harvested volumes of forest products, both for the industry and energy sectors, can be significantly increased if a more efficient forest management is adopted. This supply-side effect will also result in general price decreases for sawlogs, pulpwood, fuelwood and harvesting residues. However, in certain counties, and for specific forest products, the estimated decreasing price effect from a more efficient forest management cannot fully offset the increasing price effect of the energy sector expanding its use of forest products. More forest biomass enters the market, which is needed in the transition towards a bioeconomy, and the increased availability of forest biomass will restrict the price effect making investments in the bioeconomy more likely to be profitable.https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/12/2/208data envelopment analysisforest sectoreconomic modellingpartial equilibriumnetworkintegrated assessment |
| spellingShingle | Robert Lundmark Tommy Lundgren Elias Olofsson Wenchao Zhou Meeting Challenges in Forestry: Improving Performance and Competitiveness Forests data envelopment analysis forest sector economic modelling partial equilibrium network integrated assessment |
| title | Meeting Challenges in Forestry: Improving Performance and Competitiveness |
| title_full | Meeting Challenges in Forestry: Improving Performance and Competitiveness |
| title_fullStr | Meeting Challenges in Forestry: Improving Performance and Competitiveness |
| title_full_unstemmed | Meeting Challenges in Forestry: Improving Performance and Competitiveness |
| title_short | Meeting Challenges in Forestry: Improving Performance and Competitiveness |
| title_sort | meeting challenges in forestry improving performance and competitiveness |
| topic | data envelopment analysis forest sector economic modelling partial equilibrium network integrated assessment |
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