Valorization of biomass residues from forest operations and wood manufacturing presents a wide range of sustainable and innovative possibilities

FL Braghiroli, L Passarini - Current Forestry Reports, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review For the past few decades, consumers have increasingly
demanded biodegradable, petroleum-free, and safe products for the environment, humans …

Forest bioeconomy in Brazil: potential innovative products from the forest sector

YI Maximo, M Hassegawa, PJ Verkerk, AL Missio - Land, 2022 - mdpi.com
The forest sector plays an important role in the circular bioeconomy due to its focus on
renewable materials that can substitute fossil or greenhouse gas emissions-intensive …

Impact of structural changes in wood‐using industries on net carbon emissions in Finland

E Hurmekoski, T Myllyviita, J Seppälä… - Journal of Industrial …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Forests and forest industries can contribute to climate change mitigation by sequestering
carbon from the atmosphere, by storing it in biomass, and by fabricating products that …

Forest products markets under change: review and research implications

L Hetemäki, E Hurmekoski - Current Forestry Reports, 2016 - Springer
Background In terms of global forest product market developments, the twenty-first century
has been in many ways very different from the twentieth century—striking structural changes …

Towards a modular and temporal understanding of system diffusion: Adoption models and socio-technical theories applied to Austrian biomass district-heating (1979 …

FW Geels, V Johnson - Energy Research & Social Science, 2018 - Elsevier
The diffusion of socio-technical systems is more complex than that of discrete products and
cannot be understood solely with adoption models that have come to dominate the diffusion …

Monetary valuation of forest ecosystem services in China: A literature review and identification of future research needs

D D'amato, M Rekola, N Li, A Toppinen - Ecological Economics, 2016 - Elsevier
We propose a review of empirical studies dealing with the monetary valuation of forest
ecosystem services in China. The analysis focuses on: assessing methodological …

Examining Green Star certification uptake and its relationship with Building Information Modelling (BIM) adoption in New Zealand

DT Doan, A Ghaffarianhoseini, N Naismith… - Journal of environmental …, 2019 - Elsevier
Although academia has concentrated on issues related to green building recently, Green
Star, considered as the primary green rating system in New Zealand, has not caught …

[HTML][HTML] How to identify and interpret weak signals of change in the forest bioeconomy

T Mauno, F Catelo, DN Bengston, J Pykäläinen… - Forest Policy and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Weak signals, the first signs of a potentially emerging issue that could disrupt current trends
and megatrends, are hidden among disconnected pieces of information. Analyzing weak …

Services in the forest-based sector–unexplored futures

A Näyhä, P Pelli, L Hetemäki - Foresight, 2015 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to analyze and provide a synthesis of how services
are understood, how they are likely to develop and how future development can be studied …

[HTML][HTML] Exploring the unknowns–State of the art in qualitative forest-based sector foresight research

A Heiskanen, E Hurmekoski, A Toppinen… - Forest Policy and …, 2022 - Elsevier
The forest-based sector is facing one the greatest transitions in its history in the face of
global megatrends. Globalization, sustainability challenges and the ICT sector have put the …