The construction sector is a significant contributor to carbon emissions, making material selection in housing essential for fostering responsible consumption. Timber, recognised as a renewable and carbon-sequestering material, offers distinct environmental advantages; however, it encounters...

By considering the expansion of the timber trade in southeast Europe as a resource frontier, this article explores the relationships between the transformation of the technical and material conditions of forest exploitation and the development of its labour force. Previous studies have...

This article examines the evolution of an industrialized and capital-driven timber extraction in Bosnia and Herzegovina under Habsburg governance from 1878-1914 and its social and ecological effects on the region. It emphasizes the role of both imperial policy-making and local socio-ecological...

This article explores the history of international softwood timber trade from the late 19 th century until the 1970s, focusing on governance and the interplay between public and private sectors. By examining the roles of business associations and international networks, it highlights how these...

The article highlights the changing role of the merchant community of Danzig after the establishment of the Second Republic of Poland and the Free City of Danzig. The research question is both economic and political-institutional. It tries to understand how the merchants' community reacted to a...

Chapter 1: Construction management concepts for mass timber -- Chapter 2: Scheduling mass timber projects -- Chapter 3: Estimating mass timber projects -- Chapter 4: Quality/materials-mass timber building codes -- Chapter 5: Sustainability and mass timber -- Chapter 6: Safety -- Case studies.

"A firm grounding in economics is integral to sound forestry management, investment, policies, and practices. Forest Economics covers the basic economic concepts, principles, and constructs and shows how these are applied in private and public forestry decision-making. This comprehensive edition...

Abstract In the US South, private forest landowners own the majority of timberland, therefore, understanding timber supply behavior of these landowners is a fundamental forest economic question. This study estimates the pine stumpage supply equations and elasticities of private landowners in...

This working paper provides a detailed overview of the trade in wood-based or wood-containing products1 in the EU27 in 2020 and distinguishes products already under the scope of the EUTR and the proposed regulation of the European Commission on deforestation-free value chains, from products not...

"In City of Wood, architectural historian James Buckley explores San Francisco's rapid urban development as a product of the physical and economic transformation of the natural environment of the American West. San Francisco is best known as a product of the gold and silver that were mined from...

We examine the financial performance of the forest products industry in the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic, employing data for publicly trading companies in the industry globally. We first examine the market investor reaction to the declaration of a pandemic by the World Health...

Die vorliegende Studie stellt statistische Kennzahlen zur Wertschöpfungskette des Clusters Forst- und Holzwirtschaft in Österreich vor. Im Mittelpunkt stehen Auswertungen zur Beschäftigung auf regionaler Ebene. Die Zahl der im Inland wohnhaften aktiv Erwerbstätigen im Cluster Forst- und...

"The world's prevalent economic model, based on a 'take-make-use-dispose' approach, cannot maintain and raise human standards of living without causing environmental degradation and incurring economic risks. Decoupling economic activity from the increasing demand for natural resources could be...

In this paper, we analyse the economic impacts of the low-carbon roadmap made for the Finnish forest indus-tries. The analysis is based on a future scenario provid-ed by AFRY. Given the unit prices and production levels of six forest industry production categories, we assess the value added and...

The material presents the problem of forests, deforestation becoming nowadays a real global problem of mankind. Many millennia ago, population growth required the sacrifice of the forest to make way for crops, today forests are cut primarily for profit, wood being one of the most precious...

In this paper, we analyse the economic impacts of the low-carbon roadmap made for the Finnish forest indus-tries. The analysis is based on a future scenario provid-ed by AFRY. Given the unit prices and production levels of six forest industry production categories, we assess the value added and...

A study of the booming industry and subsequent recession in the timber industry of the north-west USA, which argues that it was not the widely-blamed actions of the Federal Reserve so much as the actions of the buyers themselves which caused the problem.