Trends in the Production, Management and Reuse of Forest Resources: New Uses, New Applications, and Innovation throughout the Entire Production Chain
A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Economics, Policy, and Social Science".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 1952
Special Issue Editors
Interests: economic history; forest; forest history; cork business
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Interests: economic history; cork business; regional economics; history of economic thought
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Interests: economic history; forest; forest history; Mediterranean forest
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Interests: business; finance and tourism; resource and service management, natural resource, sustainable rural development, water resources management, financial economics; accounting and management; sustainability; entrepreneurship; innovation; quality and environmental management systems.
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
In recent decades, the situation of modern economic growth and overexploitation of forest resources has made the innovation of products and processes crucial to guarantee the economic and environmental sustainability of the forestry subsector, as well as crucial for facing the climate and environmental challenges of global society.
In this sense, this Special Issue is oriented toward the publication of works that analyze, from a technical, productive, or economic perspective, the innovation processes that have taken place in recent decades throughout the production chain of wood, cork, resin, and other forest products. The focus of the works can have a historical approach or refer to the current era. Research that addresses present and future trends in forest production will be especially well received, particularly if they consider new applications of forest resources or innovations in products and processes that imply a more efficient and rational use.
Similarly, this Special Issue aims to be an interdisciplinary framework that brings together technical works, economic and productive analyses, sectoral or regional studies, and even humanistic and historiographical essays, provided that they are closely related to some of the thematic lines proposed in this monographic issue.
Climate change, carbon footprint, circular economy, or economic and environmental sustainability are topics with which the works presented for evaluation should explore. However, research that explores new uses and applications of forest resources are equally desirable, especially if the implications derived from them are addressed in the aforementioned terms.
Finally, as guest editors we are interested in comparative studies that address works on specific forest productions in different regional settings, or that confront productive or sectorial dynamics related to different forest resources.
Dr. Francisco Manuel Parejo-Moruno
Dr. José Francisco Rangel Preciado
Dr. Antonio Miguel Linares Luján
Prof. Dr. José Álvarez-García
Guest Editors
Manuscript Submission Information
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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Forests is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.
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Keywords
- innovation in forest products and processes
- new applications and uses of forest products
- uses of cork products from comparative perspectives
- uses of cork products from historical perspectives
- forest production chain and climate change
- circular economy in forest production
- environmental and economic sustainability in the management of forest resources
- carbon footprint in forest products
- industrial ecosystems in forest sector
- forest production chain
- forest history
