En möjlighet att få bättre betalt är om företag kan nischa sig och sälja specifikt virke från hyggesfritt skogsbruk till ett högre pris menar Tommy Lundgren i ATL 1 juni 2021.
”Förutom skogsdebatt har det senaste året också inneburit ett ovanligt intensivt hemmafixande på grund av corona. Byggnadsvirke är en sektor som nästan helt domineras av svensk råvara. Om en nischaktör lyckas slå igenom på privatmarknaden och i byggbranschen med ett varumärke och en merbetalning när det gäller hyggesfritt tror Tommy Lundgren, ny professor på Institutionen för skogsekonomi på SLU i Umeå, att fler aktörer kommer att försöka haka på. – Det funkar ju precis som med ekoprodukter, det är samma princip. Det är intressant att det finns företag som försöker göra det här nu, säger Tommy Lundgren.” (Schönning 2021)
We are happy to announce that the Ulvön Environmental Economics Meeting 2021 will be taking place online on Aug 24 - 25, 2021 (note date change). The meeting is organized by the Centre for Environmental & Resource Economics (CERE), a joint venture between Umeå University and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU/Umeå, Sweden).
Keynote speakers
Amy C. Ando, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Cornelis van Kooten, University of Victoria Brent Sohngen, Ohio State University
The objective of the meeting is to have a friendly venue for doctoral students and early career researchers to receive feedback on their work. The Call for Papers and more information can be found at website. More information and registration.
Do you want to move to Gothenburg for two years, and do research about pastoralism in East Africa? Do you want to - among other things – work on a choice experiment study with Göran Bostedt? Do you want to contribute in a large, interdisciplinary research group full of fun people who love to travel around all day on dirt roads in East Africa that are indescribably bumpy?
Then you will fit right in! Here is an opening for a post-doc position at the School of Global Studies in Gothenburg. You will work in the Drylands Transform, and paradoxically you will partly work with Göran Bostedt, despite being employed by the University of Gothenburg.
The magazine Resources interviews Francisco X. Aguilar where he discusses his recent co-authored study that takes a closer look at how the European Union’s Renewable Energy Directive helped shape the health of forests across the southeastern United States and contributed to the growth of the US wood pellet industry.
“A major takeaway is that energy from biomass can be renewable, but it must be tested. We must have data, and we must have information to validate the renewable characteristic of the energy and whether it can reduce carbon emissions or not, compared to other alternative sources … From a policy perspective, I think monitoring, being dynamic, and being open to make sure that we’re balancing economic objectives with conservation objectives, are key.” (23:03)
