Family forest owner preferences for biomass harvesting in Massachusetts

Nonindustrial private forest owners' opinions to and awareness of energy wood market and forest-based bioenergy certification - results of a case study from Finnish Karelia

“…However, it was interesting to find out that the Finnish NIPFs did not consider increasing the supply of energy wood from their forest estates even if there would be a stable market for such products in Finland in the future. In this case, the findings of this study differed from the study by Markowski-Lindsay et al [19] who found that the American NIPFs were willing to harvest forest biomass for energy production given a higher price for such materials. Perhaps the Finnish NIPFs did not perceive positively the future developments in the energy wood market in Finland and they favored a wait and see approach concerning this issue.…”

“…There have been a small number of studies in USA and Europe on exploring NIPFs' perceptions of forest-based bioenergy. In the USA, NIPFs were found to be willing to supply wood and forest residues for bioenergy production, and their willingness was positively correlated with their perceived increase in the price of biomass [17][18][19]. However, those NIPFs also considered several barriers in energy wood harvesting and supply such as lack of ready energy wood market and lack of efficient logistics [18].…”

Exploring the determinants of emerging bioenergy market participation

“…a recognition of a wide degree of producer heterogeneity [2], there have also been few comparative analyses of drivers of bioenergy market participation across different producer groups [3,4]. These absences are all the more conspicuous in light of the large contributions bioenergy is projected to play in the U.S. and E.U.…”

Benefits and Challenges Associated with the Development of Forest-Based Bioenergy Projects in India: Results from an Expert Survey

“…Although there have been studies in Europe and North America that investigated private land owners' perceptions of FBE (see [10][11][12][13][14][15][16]), their relevance in India is limited as private forest ownership is negligible in the country. Therefore, the studies conducted in Nepal and China to explore state forestry professionals' perceptions of energy production from forest biomass (see [17][18][19]) could be more relevant in an Indian context due to the similar type of dominating public forest ownership that exists in these countries.…”

“…However, the Swedish NIPFs also appeared to be concerned over the loss of soil nutrients due to harvesting of energy wood and as a result of that many of them refrained from selling energy wood. In comparison to the NIPFs in Finland and Sweden, NIPFs in the US appeared to be positive about harvest and supply of energy wood from their forest estates [13][14][15][16]. However, some of the barriers that the NIPFs in the US perceived affecting the energy wood harvest and supply were lack of a ready market and lack of efficient logistics for transporting biomass over long distances [15].…”