Abstract
Forest owner cooperations (FOC) are bundling wood supply from small-scale forests and some also offer additional services, such as wood harvesting or planting. FOCs are growing throughout Europe in terms of the managed timber volume. The increasing timber demand of forest-based industries as well as the new, rapidly growing demand for energy plants could lead to an under-supply in the following years in Europe. Because of high harvesting arrears in small-scale forests, FOCs are seen as an opportunity to overcome this foreseen timber shortage. The paper maps out timber mobilisation strategies using the SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) approach.
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In Austria forest possession with more than 200 ha is called forest enterprise, while smaller ones are called small-scale forests.
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Rauch, P. SWOT analyses and SWOT strategy formulation for forest owner cooperations in Austria. Eur J Forest Res 126, 413–420 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10342-006-0162-2
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