In-between Environmental Sustainability and Economic Viability: An Analysis of the State, Regulations, and Future of Italian Forestry Sector
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Forest Resources: Recent Dynamics in Italy
3. National Policies and Recent Innovations in Forest Planning: The Italian Case
4. Forest Resources and the Wood-Furniture Supply Chain
5. Forestry and the Wood-Furniture Supply Chain in the New Challenges of the Circular Economy
6. Discussion
7. Concluding Remarks
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
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Year | Timber | Fuel | |||
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Conifers | Broadleaves | Total | Firewood | Carbon | |
1946 | 1570 | 1753 | 3323 | 49,102 | 6097 |
1960 | 1105 | 1960 | 3065 | 36,339 | 1170 |
1980 | 1383 | 2523 | 3906 | 26,240 | 165 |
2000 | 1077 | 1905 | 2982 | 38,828 | - |
2015 | 1292 | 756 | 2048 | 23,469 | - |
2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | ||||||
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Production | Import | Production | Import | Production | Import | Production | Import | Production | Import | |
Wood chips, particles and other wood waste, (m3) | 5,280,000 | 662,281 | 5,280,000 | 907,141 | 5,546,218 | 653,244 | 3,500,000 | 760,736 | 3,600,000 | 725,500 |
Pellets (t) | 445,000 | 1,894,847 | 495,000 | 2,350,352 | 497,000 | 2,661,605 | 420,000 | 1,901,037 | 425,000 | 1,999,199 |
Sawn wood (including railway sleepers) (m3) | 1,520,000 | 5,203,619 | 1,554,200 | 4,811,411 | 1,604,641 | 5,701,382 | 1,504,200 | 4,050,689 | 1,600,000 * | 4,793,080 |
Wood-based panels (m3) | 3,777,975 | 2,625,525 | 4,705,486 | 2,784,416 | 4,387,935 | 3,173,687 | 4,263,246 | 2,596,623 | 4,350,000 * | 2,913,777 |
Wood pulp (t) | 388,347 | 3,202,650 | 369,148 | 3,499,348 | 333,776 | 3,550,000 | 222,581 | 3,269,703 | 243,000 | 3,306,603 |
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Lanfredi, M.; Coluzzi, R.; Imbrenda, V.; Nosova, B.; Giacalone, M.; Turco, R.; Prokopovà, M.; Salvati, L. In-between Environmental Sustainability and Economic Viability: An Analysis of the State, Regulations, and Future of Italian Forestry Sector. Land 2023, 12, 1001. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12051001
Lanfredi M, Coluzzi R, Imbrenda V, Nosova B, Giacalone M, Turco R, Prokopovà M, Salvati L. In-between Environmental Sustainability and Economic Viability: An Analysis of the State, Regulations, and Future of Italian Forestry Sector. Land. 2023; 12(5):1001. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12051001
Chicago/Turabian StyleLanfredi, Maria, Rosa Coluzzi, Vito Imbrenda, Bogdana Nosova, Massimiliano Giacalone, Rosario Turco, Marcela Prokopovà, and Luca Salvati. 2023. "In-between Environmental Sustainability and Economic Viability: An Analysis of the State, Regulations, and Future of Italian Forestry Sector" Land 12, no. 5: 1001. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12051001