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... Productionofotherpaperandpaperboardishighest inAsiaandthePacic. Paperandpaperboardisoneofthemostglobalized commoditygroups,withahighshareofproduction exportedandahighshareofconsumptionimported. Internationaltradeexpandedsignicantlyinthe1990s, especiallyinEurope,andtheglobalizationofpaperand paperboardmarketswillcontinueinthefuture. Industrial roundwood Industrialroundwooddemandisderivedfromgrowth indemandforendproductssawnwood ,wood- based panelsandpaperandpaperboard.Woodrequirements fortheseproductsvarydependingonthetechnology employedandthepotentialtousewoodandbrewaste. Growthinsawnwoodproductionrequiresmoreindustrial roundwood,whereasashifttoreconstitutedpanel production(particleboardandbreboard)increasesthe potentialtousewoodresiduesandbrewaste,reducing industrialroundwoodrequirements.Recyclingpolicies haveledtoincreaseduseofrecoveredpaperandreduced pulpwooddemand. Increaseduseofwoodresiduesandrecycledmaterials willreducetheshareofindustrialroundwoodintotal woodandbreusefromalmost70percentin2005to about50percentin2030. Thetotalderiveddemandinwoodraw-material equivalent(WRME)ishigherthantheconsumptionof industrialroundwood.In2005,globalderiveddemand amountedtoabout2.5billioncubicmetresWRME,of which1.7billioncubicmetreswasindustrialroundwood. Approximately0.5billioncubicmetresWRMEcamefrom recoveredpaperandtheremainderfromwood-processing residues,recoveredwoodproductsandothersources. Globalproductionofindustrialroundwoodisexpected toincreasebyslightlymorethan40percentupto2030 (Table24;Figure54).Thisisconsiderablylessthanthe projectedriseintotalwoodandbredemand(which isexpectedtoalmostdouble)becausethehighestrates ofproductiongrowthareexpectedinthepaperand paperboardsectorandahigherproportionofpaper consumptionwillberecycledinthefuture. TABLE ... threats for the survival of traditional forest knowledge STATE OF THE WORLD’S FORESTS 2009 66 Withinthecategoryof wood- basedpanels,thereisan increasingshiftfromplywood(whichaccounted for mostof the wood- basedpanelproductionandconsumptioninthe 1960s)toparticleboardandbreboard.Thisshift,whichhas importantimplications for wood raw-materialrequirements, beganinEurope(whereparticleboardandbreboard accounted for 90percentofthepanelmarketin2005)and hascontinuedinNorthAmerica(70percent).Ithasonly recentlystartedtooccurinAsiaandthePacic,where plywoodstillaccounts for morethanhalfofproductionand consumption,withtwomainproducers(Indonesiaand Malaysia)andtwomainconsumers(ChinaandJapan). AsiaandthePacic,EuropeandLatinAmericaandthe Caribbeanarenetexportingregions,whiletheothersare netimporters.Europeexportsmainlyparticleboardand breboard,whiletheothertworegionsexportplywood. Thesetrendsareexpectedtocontinue,withinternational tradeaccounting for about26–27percentofglobal productionandconsumption. Paper ... 2009 90 Withashifttothesourcingof wood fromplanted forestsandtheexclusionoflargetractsofnaturalforests from wood production,theselow-intensitymanagement systemshavebeenabandonedinmanycountries.The developmentoftechnologiesthatmadeitpossibleto process wood irrespectiveofitsnaturalqualitiesandsize hasalsocontributedtoshiftingattentionawayfromthese systems. Researchinnaturalforestsnowfocusesmore onintegratingenvironmental,socialandeconomic objectivesaccordingtotheprinciplesofsustainable forestmanagement.Anumberofnational,regionaland internationalinitiativesfocusonthedevelopmentof criteriaandindicators for measuringprogresstowards sustainableforestmanagement,outliningthenatureof technologytobeadopted.Implementationofsustainable forestmanagementrequiressubstantialstrengthening ofthescienceandtechnologybase.Tothisend,much researchfocusesonecosystemstructureandfunctioning, thespatialandtemporallinkagesamongecosystem componentsandprocesses,andtheirrelationtothe immediateandlargersocialandeconomiccontext. However,implementationofsuchresearchremains achallenge(CIFOR,2004),especiallyindeveloping countries. Technologiesthatincreasethespeedatwhichvast amountsofspatialandtemporaldatacanbeanalysedand synthesizedarerevolutionizingforestmanagementin somecountriesandareexpectedtospread.Improvements intheresolutionofsatelliteimageryandthedevelopment ofsoftwaretointerpretitwillcontributetoreal-time monitoringofdeforestation,pestsanddiseases,res andotherpotentiallydevastatingevents.Geographic informationsystems(GISs)andglobalnavigationsatellite systemsprovideforestmanagerswithincreasingly preciseinformationonthenatureandconditionofforest resources,whichcanbeprocessedandtransmittedrapidly (Box46).Thisinformationisalsovaluableasevidence for publicconsultation,vericationoflegalityandthird-party certication. Newmodellingandvisualizationsoftwarelinking GISsandremotesensingprovideshigh-qualitydigital simulationsoffutureforestlandscapestorevealchanges thatmightresultfromnaturalprocesses,suchasclimate alterations,orhumaninterventions,suchasplanting, thinningandharvesting.Suchsimulationsfacilitate communityengagementinforestmanagementdecision- making(SheppardandMeitner,2005). Anincreasinglyurgentareaofresearchrelatestothe adaptationofforeststoclimatechange. For example, geneticandenvironmentalvariationintreegrowthand healthisbeingstudiedinordertopredictpotentialimpacts ofclimatechangeonecosystemsandspeciesranges,to predictadaptiveresponsesoftreepopulationstoclimate andtoformulatenewstrategiestohelpforesttreesadapt tothechangingclimate(Wang et al.,2008). Planted forests and wood production Plantedforestshavereceivedmostinvestmentinforestry, andalsoinforestrytechnologydevelopment.Research aimsprimarilytoenhanceproductivitythroughfaster growthratesandtoimprove wood qualityandtheability TABLE...

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