Forest industry complex development in Russian Federation regions

Abstract

The study found that the existing potential of the timber industry complex is not used effectively enough, as evidenced by the low level of wood processing, the development of only 50 % of the declared annual allowable cutting rate, insufficient use of modern technologies for processing wood raw materials, as well as reforestation. The consequence of this is the low share of the timber industry complex in the total volume of production in the regions. Based on the cluster method, the regions of the Russian Federation were grouped in 2010–2019 according to indicators reflecting the availability of resources (forest cover of the territory and the total stock of wood) and the level of their use (the share of the type of economic activity in the total volume of production in the region). The analysis carried out and the results obtained on this basis made it possible to identify the most successful practices for realizing the potential of the timber industry complex, as well as possible directions for the development of the forest industry in the regions of the Russian Federation.

Wood industry clusters and their optimal location for the efficient use of forest raw materials

“…The forest industry is strategically important for many countries (Hagadone and Grala 2012;Ratnasingam et al 2017;Griffin et al 2020;Grzegorzewska and Sedliačiková 2021;Ab Latib et al 2022), including Russia (Trofimova et al 2021). Today, new approaches to forestry are in demand.…”