The Future of the Finnish Forest Sector Research Project

Presentations in English

1. New Products and Services of the Forest Sector

• Hetemäki, L. Bioeconomy: What drives the development? (pdf). Seminar of Forest Cluster Graduate School, Espoo 15 April 2011.
• Hetemäki, L. The structural change of global forest industry (pdf). Forest Policy Analysis Course, University of Helsinki 31 March 2011.  
• Kangas, H.-L., Lintunen, J., Pohjola, J., Hetemäki, L. & Uusivuori, J. Investments into forest biorefineries under different price and policy structures (pdf). The 33rd IAEE International Conference in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil, 7 June 2010.
• Kangas, H.-L. The viability of different forest biorefineries: Modeling and a numerical application. ZEW Lunch Seminar, Mannheim, Germany, 7 December 2009.
• Hetemäki, L. Future trends of Finnish forest industry (pdf). The Finnish Sawmills Agents' Day, Helsinki, 17 September 2009.
• Hetemäki, L. Fiber – Raw material for energy or pulp? (pdf). Summer School on Signs of Renewal in the Forest Industry, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Lappeenranta, Finland, 9 September 2008.
• Laturi, J. Carbon reservoirs in wood products-in-use in Finland: Current sinks and scenarios until 2050 (pdf). The biennal meeting of the Scandinavian Society of Forest Economics, Lom, Norway, 8 April 2008.
• Hetemäki, L. Markets and policy for biorefining in the pulp and paper industry: current status and outlook (pdf). Biorefining for the Pulp and Paper Industry, Radisson SAS Arlanda, Stockholm, Sweden, 10-11 December 2007.
• Hetemäki, L. Forest biorefineries: Current status and outlook (pdf). IUFRO Division VI Symposium, Saariselkä, Finland, 14-20 August 2007

2. Modeling of Wood Supply

• Lintunen, J. Timber Supply from an Age-Class Structured Forest under Rational Expectations. Environmental and Resource Economics Workshop of Finnish Doctoral Programme of Economics (FDPE), Helsinki, Finland, 17 November 2010.
• Laturi, J., Lintunen, J. & Niinistö, S. Size-class model based on simulated growth data – estimation and technical analysis (pdf). Third International Faustmann Symposium Darmstad, Germany, 29 October 2009.
• Laturi, J., Lintunen, J. & Niinistö, S. Size-class model based on simulated growth data – estimation and technical analysis. The Ulvön Conference on Environmental Economics, Ulvön, Sweden, 18 June 2009.

3. Modeling Energy and Climate Policy in the Finnish Forest Sector

• Kangas, H.-L., Alexeeva-Talebi, V., Löschel, A., Pohjola, J.& Uusivuori, J. Allocation methods in emission trading: The impacts of the choice of benchmark value in Finnish pulp and paper industry (pdf). The 17th Ulvön Conference on Environmental Economics, Sweden, 23 June 2010.
• Lintunen, J, Kangas, H.L., Laturi, J., Mäkelä, M. et al. Finnish Forest and Energy Policy Model FinFEP: An overview (pdf). Presentation at Centre for Environmental and Resource Economics, Umea, Sweden, 21 June 2010.
• Kangas, H.-L., Lintunen, J., Pohjola, J.,Hetemäki, L.& Uusivuori, J. Investments into forest biorefineries under different price and policy structures (pdf). The Forest Bioenergy 2010 Conference, Tampere, Finland, 1 September 2010.
• Kangas, H.-L., Lintunen, J., Pohjola, J., Hetemäki, L.& Uusivuori, J. Investments into forest biorefineries under different price and policy structures (pdf). The XXXIII IUFRO World Congress, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 27 August 2010.
• Kangas, H.-L. The investments into forest biorefineries under different policy instruments. Environmental and Resource Economics Worksop, The Finnish Doctoral Programme in Economics, Helsinki, 4 March 2010.
• Lintunen, J. & Kangas, H.-L. Subsidizing biomass combustion in a co-firing fossil fuel plant: The effects on state level electricity production and CO₂ emissions (pdf). The 32nd International IAEE Conference, San Francisco, USA, 22 June 2009.
• Lintunen, J. & Kangas, H.-L. The case of co-firing: The market level effects of subsidizing biomass co-combustion. The Ulvön Conference on Environmental Economics, Ulvön , Sweden , 16 June 2009 .
• Hetemäki, L., Kangas, H.-L., Laturi, J., Lintunen, J. & Uusivuori, J. Modeling energy and climate policy in the Finnish forest sector (pdf). Forest Sector Modeling Conference, Seattle, USA 17-20 November 2008.
• Kangas, H.-L., Lintunen, J. & Uusivuori, J. The cofiring problem of a power plant under policy regulations (pdf). IFORS 2008 Conference, Sandton, South Africa, 13-18 July 2008.
• Uusivuori, J. Climate and energy policies in the forest sector: An energy-wood and timber market model for Finland (pdf). The Finnish Forest Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland, 22 May 2007.

4. Forest Policy and Future Challenges

• Seppälä, R. Adaptation of forests and people to climate change (pdf). World Congress of Agroforestry Conference, Nairobi , Kenya, 25 August 2009.
• Seppälä, R. Adaptation of forests and people to climate change (pdf). Meeting of Metla's Scientific Advisory Board, Vantaa, 28 May 2009.
• Seppälä, R. Making forests fit for climate change (pdf).United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF), New York 21 April 2009.
• Seppälä, R. A new climate for forests? (pdf). Stockholma, Sweden, 16 December 2008.
• Seppälä, R. Forests and climate change at the interface between science and decision making (pdf). Conference on "The European Forest-Based Sector : Bio-Responses to Address New Climate and Energy Challenges?", Nancy, France, 6–8 November 2008.
• Seppälä, R. Increasing knowledge about adaptation of forests to climate change: An expert panel approach (pdf). Umeå Forest Adaptation 2008 Conference, Umeå, Sweden 25–28 August 2008