Response of Global Forest Management to Changes in Wood Demand.

ABSTRACT: Global wood harvests have steadily increased over the last several decades and are projected to continue growing to match demand for wood products. How forest managers respond to changes in wood demand depends not just on timber prices and production costs but also on competition with other land uses, changes in forest productivity, and land use policies. Wood demand projections are sensitive to assumptions about socioeconomic development, including population growth, economic growth, and policy changes. Using a spatially detailed, process-based land use model (LandSyMM), we simulate global wood demand, harvests, and forest management intensity under a range of future socioeconomic (Shared Socioeconomic Pathways; SSPs) and climate (Representative Concentration Pathways; RCPs) scenarios. Wo

SUBMITTER: Arendarczyk B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12584040 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature