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Wood-Product Trade and Policy

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 August 2021) | Viewed by 9388

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Ragnar Jonsson

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Guest Editor
European Commission – Joint Research Centre (JRC), Directorate D, Bioeconomy Unit (D1), Ispra 21020, Italy
Interests: wood-product markets; forest policy; forest management
Dr. Paul Rougieux

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European Commission – Joint Research Centre (JRC), Directorate D, Bioeconomy Unit (D1), Ispra 21020, Italy
Interests: forest products; forest growth modeling; forest sector modeling

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Wood-products trade is affected by numerous policies directly targeting the forest-sector. Notably, concern regarding unsustainable forest practices has led to policy initiatives—targeting producer (exporting) and (or) consumer (importing) countries—designed to strengthen sustainable and legal forest management by promoting trade in legally produced timber and discouraging illegal timber trade. Here the FLEGT (Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade) action plan and its main instruments—VPA (Voluntary Partnership Agreements) and the EUTR (EU Timber Regulation) in the EU, the amended Lacey Act in the USA, Australia’s Illegal Logging Prohibition Act—and similar initiatives should be noted. In addition, there are policies indirectly affecting the forest-based sector and wood-products trade. Prominent among these are climate and energy policy initiatives. At the same time as wood-products trade is the subject, directly or indirectly, of a number of policies, it can affect the effectiveness of policy instruments, for example, those intended to enhance climate change mitigation.

Extensive literature has been published on the interactions between the forest sector and a nexus of policies related to climate change, health, energy, the use of sustainable material, and ecosystem services. However, an analysis focusing on international trade aspects is scarce. This Special Issue intends to further the understanding of the interplay between policy and wood-products trade. Themes that could be covered include, non-exhaustively, trade diversion, substitution, certification, chain of custody, and market effects leakage. The scope encompasses global as well as regional and national policy levels.

Dr. Ragnar Jonsson
Dr. Paul Rougieux
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • policy leakage
  • trade diversion
  • substitution
  • certification
  • chain of custody
  • market effects leakage

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Impacts of the FLEGT Action Plan and the EU Timber Regulation on EU Trade in Timber Product
by Paul Rougieux and Ragnar Jonsson
Sustainability 2021, 13(11), 6030; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13116030 - 27 May 2021
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The EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) is a key element in the efforts of the European Union to curb the trade in illegal timber products. This study helps to remedy the lack of systematic, statistical analysis of the EUTR’s potential impacts on international trade [...] Read more.
The EU Timber Regulation (EUTR) is a key element in the efforts of the European Union to curb the trade in illegal timber products. This study helps to remedy the lack of systematic, statistical analysis of the EUTR’s potential impacts on international trade in timber products. Using cointegration intervention—or shock—models we quantify potential shifts in import prices and quantities of tropical hardwood lumber and oak lumber after the entry into effect of the EUTR. We further estimate import demand models to assess the relation between temperate and tropical hardwood products and whether there was a structural change in demand elasticities after the entry into force of the EUTR. The shock model analysis indicates, for most of the bilateral trade flows where we observe cointegration and a significant shock variable, increasing import prices and decreasing import quantities of tropical hardwood lumber following the EUTR start date, consistent with a contraction of the supply of tropical timber. The results of the import demand models do not give a clear indication as to whether oak lumber is a complementary or substitute product for tropical hardwood lumber, and there are no clear signs of structural changes in demand elasticities. Aside from the analysis, an important contribution of the paper is the procedure for building a long and homogeneous time series of tropical hardwood lumber. Full article
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GFPMX: A Cobweb Model of the Global Forest Sector, with an Application to the Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
by Joseph Buongiorno
Sustainability 2021, 13(10), 5507; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su13105507 - 14 May 2021
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The GFPMX projects forest area and stock, consumption, production, imports, exports, and prices of industrial roundwood, fuelwood, sawnwood, wood-based panels, wood pulp, and paper and paperboard in 180 countries, and currently from 2018 to 2070. The core principle of the model is the [...] Read more.
The GFPMX projects forest area and stock, consumption, production, imports, exports, and prices of industrial roundwood, fuelwood, sawnwood, wood-based panels, wood pulp, and paper and paperboard in 180 countries, and currently from 2018 to 2070. The core principle of the model is the cobweb theorem, according to which markets are not necessarily in equilibrium, but take some time to adjust to shocks—such as demand shifts—leading to oscillatory dynamics of prices and quantities. This paper presents the model’s structure and the estimation of its parameters from international statistics on production, trade, forest area, and forest stock. This is followed by an application of the GFPMX to the impact on the global forest sector of the economic recession caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Full article
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Modelling Bioeconomy Scenario Pathways for the Forest Products Markets with Emerging Lignocellulosic Products
by Christian Morland and Franziska Schier
Sustainability 2020, 12(24), 10540; https://0-doi-org.brum.beds.ac.uk/10.3390/su122410540 - 16 Dec 2020
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The forest-based sector plays diverse roles among the emerging bio-based industries. The goal of this study is to examine how forest product markets could develop in the face of a growing bioeconomy and which interdependencies occur between traditional and emerging forest-based sectors. Therefore, [...] Read more.
The forest-based sector plays diverse roles among the emerging bio-based industries. The goal of this study is to examine how forest product markets could develop in the face of a growing bioeconomy and which interdependencies occur between traditional and emerging forest-based sectors. Therefore, we analyze the development of dissolving pulp together with lignocellulose-based textile fibres and chemical derivatives in a partial equilibrium model. For this purpose, we extend the product structure of the Global Forest Products Model (GFPM) and analyze three different bioeconomy scenarios from 2015 to 2050. The simulation results show that, in a scenario where the world is changing toward a sustainable bio-economy, wood consumption patterns shift away from fuelwood (−30% by 2050) and classical paper products (−32% by 2050) towards emerging wood-based products. In this context, the dissolving pulp subsector could outpace the continuously shrinking paper pulp subsector by 2050. To develop in this way, the dissolving pulp subsector mainly uses released resources from the decreasing paper pulp production. Simultaneously, wood-based panels are finding increasing application (+196% by 2050) and thus are taking over potential markets for sawn wood, for which production growth remains limited. Our results also show that, until 2050, the production of many wood-based products will take place mainly in Asia instead of North America and Europe. Full article
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