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Expanding Sustainable Forest Products Markets throughout the Supply Chain
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Expanding Sustainable Forest Products Markets throughout the Supply Chain

A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Wood Science and Forest Products".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2024) | Viewed by 1675

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Matthew H. Pelkki

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Arkansas Center for Forest Business, College of Forestry, Agriculture & Natural Resources, University of Arkansas at Monticello, Monticello, AR 71656-3468, USA
Interests: forest inventory; forest management; wood products; wood structure; wood identification; forest economics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Market opportunities for efficiency and expansion exist across the forest products supply chain but have only recently been integrated. Integrative studies that consider all supply chain elements are more likely to be sustainable and reach higher levels of productivity.

Sustainable forest products markets require attention to the entire supply chain from the forest landowners, forest managers, loggers, mill owners, transportation actors, and final consumers. This Special Issue will address how each level of the supply chain can work to improve the efficiency of production and increase consumer demand for forest products.

Studies of timber supply, logging efficiency, transportation networks, mill operations, and marketing have largely been self-contained. Market growth and optimization that span multiple components of the supply chain can capture market gains at one level and pass them forward through the vertically integrated forest products supply chain.

We invite you to submit your research on the following topics: forest certification and market access; forest management that balances current and emerging markets and conditions; logging efficiency improvements through operations, safety, business practices, and best management practices; mill efficiency in energy use, circular bioeconomies, and expanding labor workforce; carbon-efficient transportation; and understanding consumer preferences and messaging regarding forest products.

Prof. Dr. Matthew H. Pelkki
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Forests is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • sustainability
  • circular bioeconomy
  • consumer preferences
  • certification
  • climate change
  • labor markets
  • carbon-efficient transport networks

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Who Prefers Legal Wood: Consumers with Utilitarian or Hedonic Shopping Values?
by Pipiet Larasatie, Radityo Putro Handrito, Triana Fitriastuti and Dhina Mustika Sari
Forests 2023, 14(11), 2163; https://doi.org/10.3390/f14112163 - 30 Oct 2023
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Although certification is perceived to be beneficial for enhancing forest sustainability and open access to green markets, certification practices in Indonesia face controversy, particularly in its wood-based industry. We aim to approach this issue from the end-user perspective. Drawing on the theories of [...] Read more.
Although certification is perceived to be beneficial for enhancing forest sustainability and open access to green markets, certification practices in Indonesia face controversy, particularly in its wood-based industry. We aim to approach this issue from the end-user perspective. Drawing on the theories of value-belief-norm and planned behavior, we examine the psychological aspects of consumers toward legal wood consumption. A survey of 515 consumers showed that individuals with hedonic values tended to have a high perception of green values toward legal wood. Also, when consumers’ hedonic values dominated over their utilitarian consumption, their perception of green values toward legal wood tends to be higher. Based on these results, wood marketers could benefit from directing their communication efforts toward emphasizing the hedonic worth of the product, as opposed to its utilitarian values. It is imperative for distributors and promoters of wood products to carefully deliberate on strategies to effectively elicit the hedonic shopping values that are inherently linked to the utilization of such green products. An illustration can be represented by the case of IKEA in Indonesia. Consumers are probably attracted to IKEA’s neuromarketing strategy, such as their attractive display and labyrinth effect, without realizing that IKEA also applies green marketing and supports green products. Full article
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