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This chapters delivers discussion about bioeconomy, related European Policy and wood resources. The European Bioeconomy Strategy and the role of forests and forest-products in achieving its objectives are being discussed. Also other policies with direct impacts on the forest-based sector are being presented. Furthermore, various primary wood based products and their environmental impacts are reviewed. The description covers traditional and innovative wood based products. The need for efficient resource use of wood resources, including reuse and upgrading of waste wood, are discussed. The environmentally preferred option to maintain wood materials in a maximum quality level by reuse in solid form, therefore extending the carbon storage duration, is presented.
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The author is pleased to acknowledge the support of WoodWisdom-Net + and the Slovenian Ministry of Education, Science, and Sport of the Republic of Slovenia for their support of the What We Wood Believe and Cascading Recovered Wood projects; European Commission for funding the project InnoRenew CoE under the Horizon2020 Widespread-2015 program, and infrastructure program IP-0035.
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Kutnar, A. (2016). Environmental Use of Wood Resources. In: Kutnar, A., Muthu, S. (eds) Environmental Impacts of Traditional and Innovative Forest-based Bioproducts. Environmental Footprints and Eco-design of Products and Processes. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0655-5_1
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