Since the Brundtland report the world is still struggling to solve the riddle of sustainability. If there is no “blueprint†for implementing sustainable development, the practical meaning has to emerge out of an interactive process of social dialogue and reflection. Sustainability...

The pursuit of sustainable development requires a political system that secures effective citizen participation in decision-making, an economic system that is able to generate surpluses on a sustained basis and a social system providing for a solution to tensions arising from disharmonious...

In sustainability impact assessments the development of widely accepted indicators that structure the subject area and provide the framework for assessing sustainability impacts is clearly important. We argue that the development of sustainability indicators in science-based initiatives works...

Discussion on a legally binding instrument on a Pan-European level has picked up its speed since 2008. Even though Community legislation on forests is absent, an interest for improved co-ordination and coherence in forest-related policy action among the European Community and member states has...

Outlook studies have long traditions in the forest sector – they have been conducted regularly since the 1950s. Until very recently, the approaches used in these studies have remained relatively unchanged. However, the global forest sector has been faced with major structural changes and its...

Recent significant changes in the sawnwood consumption per capita in some European countries raise the questions, whether similar changes could happen in other countries as well, and if so, driven by what? The objective of this study is to identify potential factors affecting the level and...