Forestry – Versus

Man holding a brown pot with smoke during a Mayan ceremony in Tulum, Mexico

by Toimitus 15.9.2023

Can myths and business coexist in the forests? -podcast

Lukuaika: < 1 min.Can myths and business coexist in the forests? In this Versus podcast episode post-doctoral researcher Violeta Gutiérrez-Zamora from Luke and Versus editor-in-chief Anna Heikkinen discuss the plural values and uses of the forests.

Picture of a continuous cover silviculture forest

by Anna 16.6.2023

Kriittinen tila

A naturally developed forest is bountiful – Continuous cover structure is a solution for forestry

Lukuaika: 13 min.Continuous tree-cover silviculture is a better way of treating and protecting ourselves and animals, plants, fungi, and all other living organisms as well as the entire environment where forests, soil, air and water systems play their part writes professor emeritus Erkki Lähde.

A pile of logwood is representing bioeconomy.

by Toimitus 12.1.2023

English Tiededebatti

Other lenses are needed to keep bioeconomy on a sustainable track

Lukuaika: 11 min.Over the last decade, the bioeconomy has become a popular strategy proposed to shift our economies away from fossil fuels and boost local economic growth, especially of rural areas.
However, critiques of the bioeconomy have pointed at its reductionist view of rural areas as providers of biomass and containers of industries and infrastructure.