Abstract
The current requirements put on the Member States of the European Union (“EU”) in the area of sustainability and climate-neutral economy through strategic visions such as “Agenda 2030” or “A Clean planet for all” demonstrate the increasing need for quick identification of the changes required in the use of renewable and nonrenewable natural resources. Forests are a particular specific area of such changes. They represent a part of the ecosystem that is important for society from the economic, social, and environmental perspectives. Current climate changes have had a negative effect on the state of forestry in the Czech Republic and have raised many questions of how to ensure its sustainability. Besides the changes in forestry, the situation has also affected the sector primarily depending on the production function of forests and whose coexistence is conditioned. Taking specific sectors as examples, the article presents some prospects that could result in more efficient use of resources and defines potential synergic effects. Analyses of primary and secondary information sources were used to create preferential models (the term “preferential” in the context of the article represents opportunities through which it is possible to achieve an improvement in competitiveness and market advantage over the current model of wood processing and timber trade in the Czech Republic. The model works with potential perspectives and respects the challenges in the field of sustainable development) of timber and wood raw material production and processing and preferential and of economic efficiency (the term “efficiency” in the article represents the technical efficiency of the use of resources to achieve maximum economic benefit and added value. The aim is to increase the economic potential of individual sectors of primary and secondary processing in relation to timber sources) of woodworking businesses. The production model indicates that the energy use of wood, the expansion of the production mix in construction, the use of biomass and digestate in agroforestry, and the logging waste recovery are the most prospective sectors. The model presenting preferential areas in the woodworking industry development with respect to sustainability identified the need to increase associated production and material efficiency in construction and energy sectors, as well as insufficient activity of the sectors associated with technological innovations, FSC and PEFC certification prospects, bioeconomy and circular economy, a considerable need for wage growth in the sector and increased use of the existing production capacities by both domestic and foreign sales.
Highlights
Support to domestic wood processing is a part of the current strategy of the Forestry department of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic (“MAg CR”)
Czech Republic [10], which partially addressed this issue. These studies point to the potential for increasing added value in wood processing for the timber trade and related industries
The identification of production areas and methods of raw wood processing proceeds from the information analysed in Table 2, which demonstrates an increase in the logging volume and the consequent processing cascade at the lower level of inputs in the years before and during the disaster
Summary
Support to domestic wood processing is a part of the current strategy of the Forestry department of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Czech Republic (“MAg CR”). One of its biggest challenges is increasing the level of production, consumption, and export of wood and paper commodities with increased added value. Czech Republic [10], which partially addressed this issue. These studies point to the potential for increasing added value in wood processing for the timber trade and related industries. These needs were pointed out in the conclusions of the 4th Ministerial
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