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- Introduction to forest-based bioeconomy
- Wood products
- Natural fibre products
- Man-made bio-based fibre products
- Bio-based nanomaterials
- Recycled fibre
- Pulping and biorefining
- Energy and biofuels
- Biomass chemistry and physiology
- Material testing and product properties
- Forests and other biomass resources
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Economic structure of in wood procurement
Forests and other biomass resources
- Introduction to biomass resources
- Trees, forest and forest ecosystems
- Global forest resources
- Structure and properties of wood and woody biomass
- Forest inventory and planning
- Management of forest ecosystems
- Forest production in ecological context
- Regeneration through natural seeding
- Regeneration through planting
- Genetic improvement of trees for forest plantations
- Management of growing and developing forest over time
- Spacing and thinning affecting availability of resources
- Thinning regimes and rules
- Management of sequestrate carbon and adaptation to climate change
- Management for improving timber quality
- Management of nutrient resources and site fertility
- Management of abiotic risks
- Management of biotic risks
- Characteristics of pest outbreaks
- Resistance mechanism of trees against herbivores and pathogens
- Induced defence
- Models explaining variation in chemical defence between plants
- Biological control in pest management
- Effects of forest management and structure on forest pests
- Climate change and forest damaged related to pests and herbivory
- Management of forests for sequetration carbon in carbon mitigating warming
- Carbon stocks in trees and soil
- Carbon balance in managed forests
- Carbon retentation in forest ecosystems and forest-based prodcution
- *Mitigating radiative forcing in forestry and forest-based production
- *Mitigating radiative forcing in management
- * Radiative forcing related to carbon in ecosystem
- * Impacts of replacing fossil fuels and fossil materials on radiative forcing
- Management for adaptation to climate change
- Timber procurement
- Timber assortments
- Harvest and timber transport
- Harvesting woody biomass for energy
- Opening forest areas for logging by consturcting roads
- Storing timber
- Organising and planning harvesting operations
- Harvesting in industrial plantations
- Damage to timber
- Environmental impacts of timber harvesting
- Timber trade
- Timber measurement
- Wood markets and cost of wood
- Global forest related policies and governance
Authors & references
Authors:
Lauri Valsta and Rainer Häggblom
References:
- Jones, S.B., Luloff, A.E. and Finley, J.C., 1995. Another look at NIPF’s: facing our myths. Journal of Forestry 93: 41–44.
- Karppinen, H. 1998. Values and objectives of non-industrial private forest owners in Finland. Silva Fennica 32(1): 43–59.
- Weiss, G., Lawrence, A., Hujala T., Lidestav, G., Nichiforel, L., Nybakk, E., Quiroga, S., Sarvašová, Z., Suarez, C., Živojinović I. 2019. Forest ownership changes in Europe: State of knowledge and conceptual foundations. Forest Policy and Economics 99 (Feb.) 9–20.
- Jin, S. and Sader, S. A. 2006. Effects of forest ownership and change on forest harvest rates, types and trends in northern Maine. Forest Ecology and Management 228 (1–3): 177–186.
- Neilson, D. 2008. Growth of global timberland investment. Timber Mart South 2008 (1): 15-17.
- Wan Y., Clutter, M.L., Mei, B. and Siry, J.P. 2015. Assessing the role of US timberland assets in a mixed portfolio under the mean-conditional value at risk framework. Forest Policy and Economics 50: 118–126.
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