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8 - Forest Bioeconomy Development

Markets and Industry Structures

from Part I - Wicked Problems and Policies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2020

By
Lauri Hetemäki  and
Elias Hurmekoski
Edited by
William Nikolakis  and
John L. Innes
William Nikolakis
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
John L. Innes
Affiliation:
University of British Columbia, Vancouver
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Summary

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable development Goals (SDGs) and the Paris Agreement on climate change provide a license to change the existing global economic model. Production and consumption needs to be transformed to be sustainable so that we can live within our planetary boundaries. An essential part of this transformation will be a forest-based circular bioeconomy, which builds on the world’s biggest land-based natural capital – forests – and the synergies of the circular economy and bioeconomy concepts. Biology, science, technology, resource efficiency and sustainability are laying the foundations for this transformation. Within this context, forest bio-based products have emerged that can substitute fossil-based materials like plastics, chemicals, synthetic textiles, cement and many other materials. This chapter analyses this ongoing transformation, focusing on forest-based products, and examines what this role looks like by exploring trends in current market structures and forest products in this transformation, and asks how will these new emerging bioeconomy markets develop? Central to this chapter are other questions such as what role do polices play in the transformation, and how do the forest companies and institutions evolve in the coming decades? It is important to acknowledge that there are many ecosystem services related to forest bioeconomy that play an even greater role in sustaining life on earth – and therefore facilitating the bioeconomy - than the products we address in this chapter.

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Forest bioeconomyMarket outlookInstitutionsPoliciesBioproducts
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The Wicked Problem of Forest Policy
A Multidisciplinary Approach to Sustainability in Forest Landscapes
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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