Elias Hurmekoski
Biographic Data
| ID | 5774522 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elias Hurmekoski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elias |
| FAMILY NAME | Hurmekoski |
| SIGNATURE | HURMEKOSKI E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8717-7287 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Does sufficiency ensure sustainability? Applying sufficiency lifestyles allocation in absolute environmental sustainability assessment of textile fibers
The textile industry creates an environmental burden because of its extensive energy, material, and water use and increasing consumer consumption. While life cycle assessments of the products unravel these impacts, they are rarely put into perspective through comparisons with environmental thresholds. This study applies the absolute environmental sustainability assessment (AESA) method to evaluate the environmental impacts of the three most commo…
Temporal dynamics of substitution impacts in the textile fiber sector
Rising textile fiber demand over the past two decades has intensified interest in the potential of wood-based fibers and recycled fibers to substitute for conventional cotton and synthetic fibers. However, the sector-level substitution impacts remain inadequately explored, especially regarding the diverse substitution patterns—among wood-based fibers, among non-wood fibers, and between wood- and non-wood fibers—and how these evolve over time. By …
Substitution impacts of wood construction in the EU
With energy system decarbonization, embodied greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions increasingly drive construction-sector climate impacts, spurring research on wood substitution. At the sectoral scale, substitution impacts have typically been assessed using two substitution modeling approaches: (i) component-level substitution, which traces wood flows from forests to intermediate construction products, while ignoring functional equivalence at the level …
Synergies and trade-offs in the European forest bioeconomy research
The management and governance of forests must consider the synergies and trade-offs between different societal goals, especially with the bioeconomy being a key factor in recent sectoral strategies worldwide. This literature review explores the multidimensional concept of synergies and trade-offs, focusing on scientific publications dealing with the European forest bioeconomy. The objectives are twofold: 1) to provide an overview of the reviewed …
Resilient forest-based value chains? Econometric analysis of roundwood prices in five European countries in the era of natural disturbances
Climate change poses a growing threat to European forests due to the increasing frequency and severity of storms, insect outbreaks, and other natural disturbances. Natural disturbances affect both the volume and the quality of harvested wood and increase the tendency of increased salvage loggings, reducing roundwood prices over the short-term. The increase of unexpected inflow of wood resources prompted by disturbance-induced salvage logging can …
Substitution impacts of wood‐based textile fibers
Wood products may help to avoid fossil emissions when they substitute for more fossil‐intensive products. However, the estimates of avoided fossil emissions attributed to wood use tend to be based on incomplete market assumptions. Wood products are assumed to fully substitute for non‐wood products, yet substitution rarely occurs 1:1 and wood products can also substitute for each other. This study outlines a systematic procedure grounded on econom…
Risk perception and political leaning explain the preferences of non-industrial private landowners for alternative climate change mitigation strategies in Finnish forests
Understanding landowners’ willingness to act on climate change is important for effective climate policy. This study investigates the determinants of Finnish non-industrial private forest owners’ preferences for alternative climate change mitigation strategies related to forests and wood use. The study tests hypotheses concerning the role of risk perception and political leaning for the support of seven alternative strategies with varying degree …
Boosting the EU forest-based bioeconomy
This study adds to the scientific literature dealing with the climate change mitigation implications of wood substitution. Its main scientific contribution rests with the modelling approach. By fully integrating forest resource and wood-product markets modelling in quantitative scenario analysis, we account for international trade in wood products as well as impacts on EU forests and forest-based sector employment of an increased EU uptake of woo…
Exploring the unknowns – State of the art in qualitative forest-based sector foresight research
The forest-based sector is facing one the greatest transitions in its history in the face of global megatrends. Globalization, sustainability challenges and the ICT sector have put the world in a new light. Whereas some of the recent developments have resulted in challenges for the traditional forest industry, many positive expectations and opportunities are also seen to arise in the form of the transition to a sustainable bio-economy. However, t…
Targeting net climate benefits by wood utilization in Finland
Impact of structural changes in wood‐using industries on net carbon emissions in Finland
Forests and forest industries can contribute to climate change mitigation by sequestering carbon from the atmosphere, by storing it in biomass, and by fabricating products that substitute more greenhouse gas emission intensive materials and energy. The objectives of the study are to specify alternative scenarios for the diversification of wood product markets and to determine how an increasingly diversified market structure could impact the net c…
Frontiers of the forest-based bioeconomy – A European Delphi study
Factors affecting sawnwood consumption in Europe
Studying the future of the forest sector
Frontiers of the forest-based bioeconomy – A European Delphi study
Studying the future of the forest sector
Factors affecting sawnwood consumption in Europe
Synergies and trade-offs in the European forest bioeconomy research
The management and governance of forests must consider the synergies and trade-offs between different societal goals, especially with the bioeconomy being a key factor in recent sectoral strategies worldwide. This literature review explores the multidimensional concept of synergies and trade-offs, focusing on scientific publications dealing with the European forest bioeconomy. The objectives are twofold: 1) to provide an overview of the reviewed …
Exploring the unknowns – State of the art in qualitative forest-based sector foresight research
The forest-based sector is facing one the greatest transitions in its history in the face of global megatrends. Globalization, sustainability challenges and the ICT sector have put the world in a new light. Whereas some of the recent developments have resulted in challenges for the traditional forest industry, many positive expectations and opportunities are also seen to arise in the form of the transition to a sustainable bio-economy. However, t…
Resilient forest-based value chains? Econometric analysis of roundwood prices in five European countries in the era of natural disturbances
Climate change poses a growing threat to European forests due to the increasing frequency and severity of storms, insect outbreaks, and other natural disturbances. Natural disturbances affect both the volume and the quality of harvested wood and increase the tendency of increased salvage loggings, reducing roundwood prices over the short-term. The increase of unexpected inflow of wood resources prompted by disturbance-induced salvage logging can …
Targeting net climate benefits by wood utilization in Finland
Studying the future of the forest sector
Factors affecting sawnwood consumption in Europe
Frontiers of the forest-based bioeconomy – A European Delphi study
Impact of structural changes in wood‐using industries on net carbon emissions in Finland
Forests and forest industries can contribute to climate change mitigation by sequestering carbon from the atmosphere, by storing it in biomass, and by fabricating products that substitute more greenhouse gas emission intensive materials and energy. The objectives of the study are to specify alternative scenarios for the diversification of wood product markets and to determine how an increasingly diversified market structure could impact the net c…
Boosting the EU forest-based bioeconomy
This study adds to the scientific literature dealing with the climate change mitigation implications of wood substitution. Its main scientific contribution rests with the modelling approach. By fully integrating forest resource and wood-product markets modelling in quantitative scenario analysis, we account for international trade in wood products as well as impacts on EU forests and forest-based sector employment of an increased EU uptake of woo…
Exploring the unknowns – State of the art in qualitative forest-based sector foresight research
The forest-based sector is facing one the greatest transitions in its history in the face of global megatrends. Globalization, sustainability challenges and the ICT sector have put the world in a new light. Whereas some of the recent developments have resulted in challenges for the traditional forest industry, many positive expectations and opportunities are also seen to arise in the form of the transition to a sustainable bio-economy. However, t…
Targeting net climate benefits by wood utilization in Finland
Substitution impacts of wood‐based textile fibers
Wood products may help to avoid fossil emissions when they substitute for more fossil‐intensive products. However, the estimates of avoided fossil emissions attributed to wood use tend to be based on incomplete market assumptions. Wood products are assumed to fully substitute for non‐wood products, yet substitution rarely occurs 1:1 and wood products can also substitute for each other. This study outlines a systematic procedure grounded on econom…
Risk perception and political leaning explain the preferences of non-industrial private landowners for alternative climate change mitigation strategies in Finnish forests
Understanding landowners’ willingness to act on climate change is important for effective climate policy. This study investigates the determinants of Finnish non-industrial private forest owners’ preferences for alternative climate change mitigation strategies related to forests and wood use. The study tests hypotheses concerning the role of risk perception and political leaning for the support of seven alternative strategies with varying degree …
Resilient forest-based value chains? Econometric analysis of roundwood prices in five European countries in the era of natural disturbances
Climate change poses a growing threat to European forests due to the increasing frequency and severity of storms, insect outbreaks, and other natural disturbances. Natural disturbances affect both the volume and the quality of harvested wood and increase the tendency of increased salvage loggings, reducing roundwood prices over the short-term. The increase of unexpected inflow of wood resources prompted by disturbance-induced salvage logging can …
Synergies and trade-offs in the European forest bioeconomy research
The management and governance of forests must consider the synergies and trade-offs between different societal goals, especially with the bioeconomy being a key factor in recent sectoral strategies worldwide. This literature review explores the multidimensional concept of synergies and trade-offs, focusing on scientific publications dealing with the European forest bioeconomy. The objectives are twofold: 1) to provide an overview of the reviewed …
Does sufficiency ensure sustainability? Applying sufficiency lifestyles allocation in absolute environmental sustainability assessment of textile fibers
The textile industry creates an environmental burden because of its extensive energy, material, and water use and increasing consumer consumption. While life cycle assessments of the products unravel these impacts, they are rarely put into perspective through comparisons with environmental thresholds. This study applies the absolute environmental sustainability assessment (AESA) method to evaluate the environmental impacts of the three most commo…
Temporal dynamics of substitution impacts in the textile fiber sector
Rising textile fiber demand over the past two decades has intensified interest in the potential of wood-based fibers and recycled fibers to substitute for conventional cotton and synthetic fibers. However, the sector-level substitution impacts remain inadequately explored, especially regarding the diverse substitution patterns—among wood-based fibers, among non-wood fibers, and between wood- and non-wood fibers—and how these evolve over time. By …
Substitution impacts of wood construction in the EU
With energy system decarbonization, embodied greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions increasingly drive construction-sector climate impacts, spurring research on wood substitution. At the sectoral scale, substitution impacts have typically been assessed using two substitution modeling approaches: (i) component-level substitution, which traces wood flows from forests to intermediate construction products, while ignoring functional equivalence at the level …
Economics (11 works) · Business (9 works) · Ecology (8 works) · Forest Management and Policy (8 works) · Natural resource economics (8 works) · Environmental Impact and Sustainability (6 works) · Climate change (5 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Environmental resource management (5 works) · Geography (5 works)