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2 Program Board County governor Maria Norrfalk Professor Lund university Wilhelm Agrell SG Swedish outdoor association Ulf Silvander SG WWF Håkan Wirtén Chief forester Skogssällskapet Lotta Möller Chief forester StoraEnso Martin Holmgren SVP environment Sveaskog Olof Johansson Forest director LRF Sten Frohm

3 Program administration Program director Annika Nordin Program communicator Annika Mossing Program secretary Linda Gruffman Program economist Jan-Peter Nordmark Program documentation Ida Taberman

4 ForSA the senior management group Annika Nordin (chair) Annika Mossing Linda Gruffman Erland Mårald Tomas Lundmark Urban Nilsson (PC1) Hjalmar Laudon (PC2) Jan Stenlid (PC3) Camilla Sandström (PC4)

5 The program components PC1: Future silviculture. Urban Nilsson PC2: Forest soils and waters. Hjalmar Laudon PC3: Climate change mitigation and adaptation. Jan Stenlid PC4: Governing competing demands on forests. Camilla Sandström

6 ForSA the projects Scenario analyses back casting and desirable forests futures. Jessica Johansson FOI Economic consequences of alternative forest land-use strategies in Sweden an analysis on national, European and global levels. Johan Bergh Strategies promoting biodiversity in managed forest landscapes. Annika Nordin Ecosystem based forest management: analysing silvicultural systems in a landscape perspective and implemeting a concept for adaptive forest management. Tomas Lundmark

7 ForSA 1: Scenario-analyses back casting and desirable forest futures Group: Nature values and environment Group: Forestry and energy More set aside land with high quality Higher production for a climate smart forestry

8 ForSA the projects Scenario analyses back casting and desirable forests futures. Jessica Johansson FOI Economic consequences of alternative forest land-use strategies in Sweden an analysis on national, European and global levels. Johan Bergh Strategies promoting biodiversity in managed forest landscapes. Annika Nordin Ecosystem based forest management: analysing silvicultural systems in a landscape perspective and implemeting a concept for adaptive forest management. Tomas Lundmark

9 SSP2: EU27 Sawn wood production (1000 m3) Preliminary results SSP2: EU27 Pulp production (1000 m3) EU27 bioenergy demand (EJ primary energy) Future Forests 10 September 2014, Sweden 9

10 ForSA the projects Scenario analyses back casting and desirable forests futures. Jessica Johansson FOI Economic consequences of alternative forest land-use strategies in Sweden an analysis on national, European and global levels. Johan Bergh Strategies promoting biodiversity in managed forest landscapes. Annika Nordin Ecosystem based forest management: analysing silvicultural systems in a landscape perspective and implemeting a concept for adaptive forest management. Tomas Lundmark

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12 ForSA the projects Scenario analyses back casting and desirable forests futures. Jessica Johansson FOI Economic consequences of alternative forest land-use strategies in Sweden an analysis on national, European and global levels. Johan Bergh Strategies promoting biodiversity in managed forest landscapes. Annika Nordin Ecosystem based forest management: Analysing silvicultural systems in a landscape perspective and implemeting a concept for adaptive forest management. Tomas Lundmark

13 Future Forests Sustainable strategies under uncertainty and risk ForSA 4 Alternative silvicultural systems Structured dialogue process Even-aged Uneven-aged Clear-cutting Stand management Continuous-cover Single tree management

14 TWG Focused, interdisciplinary with a time span of maximum two years Thematic Working Group (ad hoc) Decided Forest biodiversity concepts and implications for management (Stig Larsson) Forest Potential, Low Carbon Roadmaps and the Climate Policy (David Ellison) Is Swedish forestry resilient? (Lucy Rist) Conitinuous cover forestry (Johan Sonesson) National Forest programme and dialogue process (Tomas Lundmark) Under discussion Young people s preferred forest futures a comparison between Sweden and Finland (Annika N, Mika Mustonen) Gemensamma kriterier inom EU för hållbart skogsbruk (Annika, Camilla, Mika, Gustaf E)

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