BIOECONOMY AND FOREST RESOURCES JOENSUU ANNE TOPPINEN

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1 BIOECONOMY AND FOREST RESOURCES JOENSUU ANNE TOPPINEN Department of Forest Sciences and Helsinki Institute of Sustainability Science (HELSUS) University of Helsinki Follow our 15/05/2018 1

2 FORBIO is the largest forest bioeconomy related research project in Finland with high-level support from forest sector actors - a lot of promise to break new ground! Presentation Name / Firstname Lastname 15/05/2018 2

3 NEXUS OF BIOECONOMY AND FOREST SECTOR THE ROLE OF SUSTAINABILITY: Fossil fuel dependency down Combatting ecosystem decline Boosting economic development and job creation (2016) FORBIO: climate neutral and resource efficient forestbased bioeconomy; WP themes: 1. Tailored forest management 2. Feedstock supply 3. New value chains for green chemicals 4. Sustainability and acceptability of forestbased bioeconomy 5. Sectoral development opportunities

4 FOREST-BASED BIOECONOMY DOES NOT COME WITHOUT CHALLENGES: Conceptual confusion on how to define bioeconomy, according to Hodge et al. (2017), danger of becoming a lobbying rather than bridging concept? Who defines sustainability? For the Finnish case, national bioeconomy strategy from 2014 has four blocks integration? The rise of cross-sectoral integration needed where innovations in the interphase of two or more formerly separated sectors this adds complexity to the assessment of pathways shaping the future bioeconomy (Korhonen et al., 2018, Priefer et al. 2017)

5 BIOECONOMY AT POLICY LEVEL (SOURCE: TEM 2014) FORBIO main focus area is 4.

6 SOME ISSUES FOR ANALYSING FOREST- BASED BIOECONOMY? - Cf. Bosman & Rotmans: Difficulty in crossing of sectoral boundaries to accelerate new innovations/business ecosystem development? - Sustainable level of future biomass use under discussion among researchers and policymakers - Do we have well functioning raw material markets? (pulpwood, sawlogs, wood-based energy). And what is the role of private forest owners diversifying values and objectives in all this?

7 A COMPARISON OF BIOECONOMY TRANSITION IN FINLAND WITH THE NETHERLANDS? (BOSMAN AND ROTMANS 20176

8 SOME ISSUES FOR ANALYSING FOREST- BASED BIOECONOMY? - Cf. Bosman & Rotmans: Difficulty in crossing of sectoral boundaries to accelerate new innovations/business ecosystem development? - Sustainable level of future biomass use under discussion among researchers and policymakers - Do we have well functioning raw material markets? (pulpwood, sawlogs, wood-based energy). And what is the role of private forest owners diversifying values and objectives in all this?

9 CORE: FOREST BIOREFINERY INVESTMENTS Renewal capacity based on brownfield Borregaard, Domsjö) vs. greenfield (Äänekoski)? (Antikainen et al. 2017, RISE 2015)

10 SOME ISSUES FOR ANALYSING FOREST- BASED BIOECONOMY? - Cf. Bosman & Rotmans: Difficulty in crossing of sectoral boundaries to accelerate new innovations/business ecosystem development? - Sustainable level of future biomass use under discussion among researchers and policymakers - Do we have well functioning raw material markets? (pulpwood, sawlogs, wood-based energy). And what is the role of private forest owners diversifying values and objectives in all this?

11 DIVERSIFICATION IN PRIVATE FOREST OWNERS VALUES AND OBJECTIVES? Most important trends affecting the western and northern Europe are changing demographics of private landowners; their changing lifestyles, motivations and values (e.g. Häyrinen et al. 2016; Weiss et al. 2017) These changes have been long-term and are expected to continue affecting timber supply and management behavior, as well as legitimacy of forest related policies (Valkeapää & Karppinen 2013) Aiming at more efficient land management and adoption of new kind of forest management strategies results in more segregative forest land use? A challenge of practicing multifunctionality and ecosystem management? And what kind of consequences on stumpage prices and pulp industry competitiveness? Identified four groups of forest owners against their perception on the meaning of forests, data 2014, N=394 (Häyrinen et al. (2016)

12 LITERATURE Bosman, R. & Rotmans, J Transition Governance towards a Bioeconomy: A Comparison of Finland and the Netherlands. Sustainability 8: Hodge, D., Brukas, V., & Giurca, A Forests in a bioeconomy: bridge, boundary or divide? Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research, 32(7), Häyrinen, L., Mattila, O., Berghäll, S, & Toppinen, A Lifestyle of health and sustainability of forest owners as an indicator of multiple use of forests. Forest Policy and Economics 67: Priefer, C., Jörissen, J., & Frör, O Pathways to Shape the Bioeconomy. Resources, 6(1). Roos, A. & Stendahl, M., Emerging bioeconomy and the forest sector., in: Panwar et al. (eds): Forests, Business and Sustainability. Earthscan/Routledge. Valkeapää, A. & Karppinen, H Citizens' view of legitimacy in the context of Finnish forest policy. Forest Policy and Economics. 28: Weiss, G., Lawrence, A., Lidestav, G., Feliciano, D. & Hujala, T Changing Forest Ownership in Europe Main Results and Policy Implications, COST Action FP1201 FACESMAP POLICY PAPER. EFICEEC- EFISEE Research Report. University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (BOKU), Austria. 25 p