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Strategic Research Agenda Forestry Value Chain Commentary address by Jean-Luc PEYRON

Strategic Research Agenda Forestry Value Chain Commentary address by Jean-Luc PEYRON. 1. First commentary on CHANGE. Changes are stressed in many themes Environmental changes Climate change Productivity change due to Temperature Carbon Nitrogen Risks Biodiversity (loss)

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Strategic Research Agenda Forestry Value Chain Commentary address by Jean-Luc PEYRON

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  1. Strategic Research AgendaForestry Value ChainCommentary addressbyJean-Luc PEYRON 1

  2. First commentary on CHANGE • Changes are stressed in many themes • Environmental changes • Climate change • Productivity change due to • Temperature • Carbon • Nitrogen • Risks • Biodiversity (loss) • Socio-economic changes • New perceptions • Nature • Leisure place • New needs • New paradigm? • Sustainability and Multifunctionality 2

  3. However, many uncertainties are at stake: • In environmental changes • Effectiveness of measures • Magnitude of the increase of average temperature • Regional differences • Increase of productivity until a certain point (saturation?) • Higher storm threats? • Difficulty to easily reduce these uncertainties • In future social needs • There has been a change • Is it for a final stage? • In the economic sector as well • Energy and carbon markets • Land use and agriculture • Labour costs and labour productivity 3

  4. Are forest management and policy adapted to perpetual change and uncertainty, whatever the domain (environmental, social or economic)? There are many rigidities: • Forest strategy • Climax even if it is now considered in a more flexible way • Growth models assuming invariable conditions • Long term steady state even if it is tempered • Cut volumes planned in the short run • Cut areas planned in the long run • Forest codes and top-down decisions • High weight of initial training / professional training • High weight of traditions in general 4

  5. Which solutions? • Adaptive management • Quality • Diversity • Reversibility • Risk prevention • Transition is a key issue • Governance • Bottom-up procedures • Share of responsibilities • Reconciliation between social and private objectives • Monitoring • Long term experiments and measurements • In link with research 5

  6. Which solutions? • Research • Innovation needs in an evolving background • Adaptation of research methods to this evolving background • Rapid answers without heavy experimental protocols • Suitable for forest managers and decision makers (expertise) • Integration between social and natural sciences • Education • More importance to professional training • Communication • Society analyses • Information of society • In conclusion, these solutions are not totally new but more emphasis has to be put on them in consideration of change in general. 6

  7. Second commentary on Europe and world forestry • More and more global issues • Internationalisation and globalisation in general • Trade of forest products • Climate change (UNFCCC) • Biodiversity (CBD) • Forestry (even though no forest convention) • Illegal logging • Forest certification 7

  8. Tropical forests: a major concern for Europe • Not only because of historical political links • But also regarding wood supply • Needs of forest products • Ecolabels • Illegal logging • Regarding supply of chemicals • And regarding European society • Green belt • Loss of biodiversity • tourism 8

  9. Tropical issues are useful for Europe • NB: in the past European practices have been exported to the tropics • Multifunctionality • Biodiversity • Growth studies in uneven-aged stands • Forest certification has been imagined for the tropics • Increase of temperature in Europe • In conclusion, this topic (on world forestry and Europe) could be explicitly in the scope. 9

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