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Abstract

Sweden has an intense debate about sustainable forestry today. To find the balance between the three pillars social, economic and ecological value is a conflict which permeates the forest sector together with different stakeholders. The production of forest raw material needs to increase to make it possible to substitute fossil-based products meanwhile as the carbon storage strengthens.
Today’s forestry indicates todays it is oriented towards pulpwood while research shows that the timber volume will decrease in the near future. Despite this, the forest companies emphasize their contribution to sustainable development and their focus on long-lived products.
A comparative study, between even-aged production forestry, the traditional sweden forestry and a forestry were all the focus is on produce timber is therefore substantially. With data from The Swedish National Inventory as well as modelling in Heureka PlanWise, this has been investigated and evaluated. The result showed that a Timber maximazed forestry with the ability to a lot more care alternatives than just todays even-aged production forestry both increase the timber share, but also net income and carbon storage. This strengthens that the forestry today is more pulpwood oriented than how the forest companies emphasize their self.