“…Given the long payback period of forest investments, forest sector models have become, both for the forest manager and for the public decision-maker, important prospective tools that can provide useful information about the possible dynamic of forest resources and sectors in the long term. For example, Schwarzbauer et al (2015); Solberg et al (2017); Kallio et al (2018); Petucco et al (2020) are all recent applications of forest sector models on topics as different as (respectively) wood-based energy, biodiversity, forest product markets and forest managers adaptation to forest pathogens. Based on a building set of credible scenarios, depending on the uncertainties, these models can compute market outcomes (production and harvest, consumption, price, international trade, etc.…”