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Environmental Impacts of Traditional and Innovative Forest-based Bioproducts

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Editors:
  1. Andreja Kutnar

    1. University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia

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  2. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu

    1. Environmental Services Manager-Asia, SGS Hong Kong Limited, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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  • Offers a comprehensive description of traditional and innovative forest-based bioproducts
  • Highlights the environmental impact assessment of wood products with LC-A lens
  • Addresses further topics such as business aspects: bioproducts in bioeconomies, eco-labels of forest-based bioproducts, etc.
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Environmental Use of Wood Resources

    • Andreja Kutnar
    Pages 1-18

  3. Wood-Plastic Composites—Performance and Environmental Impacts

    • Matthew John Schwarzkopf, Michael David Burnard
    Pages 19-43

  4. The Opportunities and Challenges for Re-use and Recycling of Timber and Wood Products Within the Construction Sector

    • Graham A. Ormondroyd, Morwenna J. Spear, Campbell Skinner
    Pages 45-103

  5. Additives in Wood Products—Today and Future Development

    • Dick Sandberg
    Pages 105-172

  6. Forest-Based Bioproducts Used for Construction and Its Impact on the Environmental Performance of a Building in the Whole Life Cycle

    • Roman Kunič
    Pages 173-204

  7. Business—Bioproducts in the Bioeconomy

    • Anders Roos
    Pages 205-226

  8. Responding to the Bioeconomy: Business Model Innovation in the Forest Sector

    • Eric Hansen
    Pages 227-248
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About this book

This book provides a comprehensive description of traditional and innovative forest-based bioproducts, from pulp and paper, wood-based composites and wood fuels to chemicals and fiber-based composites. The descriptions of different types of forest-based bioproducts are supplemented by the environmental impacts involved in their processing, use, and end-of-life phase. Further, the possibility of reusing, recycling and upgrading bioproducts at the end of their projected life cycle is discussed. As the intensity of demand for forest biomass is currently changing, forest-based industries need to respond with innovative products, business models, marketing and management. As such, the book concludes with a chapter on the bioproducts business and these products’ role in bioeconomies.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Primorska, Koper, Slovenia

    Andreja Kutnar

  • Environmental Services Manager-Asia, SGS Hong Kong Limited, Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu

About the editors

Dr. Kutnar has co-authored 47 scientific papers, including 39 original scientific papers, 7 scientific review papers, and 1 short scientific communication. Her papers have been cited 134 times, excluding self-citations. In 2014 she co-authored a book “Contemporary Slovenian Timber Architecture for Sustainability” published by Springer International Publishing AG in a Series Green Energy and Technology. She has also contributed 36 papers to conference proceedings, 45 abstracts at international conferences and an additional 10 unpublished conference contributions. She co-edited the proceedings of 3 international conferences. She has also co-authored 6 scientific chapters in monographs and published 10 professional articles. Her co-authors are from the USA, Sweden, Finland, Austria, France, Switzerland, Germany, United Kingdom, and Canada, demonstrating her international involvement. Andreja Kutnar has been a keynote speaker at two international conferences including the well-recognized Wood Adhesives Conference in 2013. She has given 15 invited lectures at foreign universities (USA, Finland, Germany, Canada and Czech Republic). She coordinating H2020 Teaming project Renewable materials and healthy environments research and innovation centre of excellence (InnoRenew CoE). Furthermore, she is chair of COST Action FP1407 “Understanding wood modification through an integrated scientific and environmental impact approach (ModWoodLife). 


Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan is currently working for SGS as Environmental Services Manager-Asia, based at Hong Kong. He gained his diploma, bachelors and masters in Textile Technology from premier institutes of India. He was awarded doctorate from The Institute of Textiles and Clothing of The Hong Kong Polytechnic University for his dissertation entitled,” Eco-functional Assessment of Grocery Shopping Bags” He also has more than seven years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, textile testing and sustainability evaluation of various materials. He was an outstanding student throughout his studies and bagged numerous awards and medals including many gold medals in his study period. He has more than 80 academic publications in various textiles and environmental journals to his credit. Additionally he has 2 patents, 6 books of chapter and over 25 scientific books and numerous conference publications. He is acting as an editor, editorial board member and reviewer for many international peer-reviewed journals of textiles and environmental science disciplines.

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