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Sustainability assessment of entire forest value chains: Integrating stakeholder perspectives and indicators in decision support tools

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ECOLOGICAL MODELLING
Volume 221, Issue 18, Pages 2206-2214

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2010.03.022

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Value chain; Forestry; Stakeholder approach; Indicators; Sustainability; Assessment; Decision support tools

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  1. German Federal Ministry for Education and Research [0330566 A-E]

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The optimization of value chains is an important process to promote sustainable development, since value chains are closely linked to the satisfaction of human needs and combine different driving forces for environmental change. This article presents a methodological approach for the participatory development of value-chain wide sustainability indicator sets and their integration into a decision support tool in the specific case study of the chain construction and refurbishment with wood. There are numerous indicator sets for sustainable development of forests and sustainable forestry available at different levels, ranging from local, regional and national to global scale assessments. Some efforts were also made to integrate later production stages of forest value chains (such as wood processing) in the assessment scope (e.g. for chain-of-custody certification). However, no indicator set has so far been available covering environmental, social and economic aspects for the entire value chain of building with timber. This gap was closed through applied sustainability research in the project Holzwende 2020: Sustainable future markets for wood in the building sector. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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