Forests have great importance for the Latvian economy, environment, landscape, flora and fauna. Forest sector contribution to the national GDP is 10…12 %, providing employment for 75…80 thousand people. In the paper was analysed accessible forest and wood resources in Latvia, forest...

Public policy actions to promote innovations related business based house construction and related wood use enhancement have been wide in Finland from the mid 1990’s on but without many commercially successful innovations. This paper discusses national public policy activities in the two major...