This paper contributes to the political economic analysis of industrial forestry in the Global North (GN) by introducing and applying elements of an analytical framework for extractivist valorization. The proposed framework serves as a complement, systematization, and extension of the concepts of valorization and (post-fossil) extractivism. It scrutinizes the political-economic constellation and social as well as ecological sustainability challenges of current dominant practices in industrial forestry in the GN. The (potential) contribution and role of industrial forestry in social-ecological transformation processes is contested, although forestry is often perceived as a sustainable sector per se, and its services and products are crucial for many sustainability, bioeconomy, and decarbonization strategies. With the proposed analytical framework, the paper investigates forestry as an industry that socially and economically mediates relationships between individuals, society, and nature. The paper illustrates the analytical potential of the proposed framework by applying it to two exemplary cases of industrial forestry: Finland and the Canadian province of Alberta. The paper concludes that such a framework can provide relevant insights into the sustainability challenges in industrial forestry in both cases examined. New pathways of valuing and using forests need to be actively pursued to integrate the forest sector into the broader project of social-ecological transformations.

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北半球工业林业中的采掘主义价值化 – 分析框架的要素和加拿大阿尔伯塔省案例的插图


本文通过引入和应用采掘主义价值化分析框架的要素，为北半球工业林业 （GN） 的政治经济学分析做出了贡献。拟议的框架是对价值化和（后化石）采掘主义概念的补充、系统化和扩展。它仔细研究了 GN 当前工业林业主导实践的政治经济组合以及社会和生态可持续性挑战。尽管林业本身通常被视为一个可持续发展的部门，其服务和产品对于许多可持续性、生物经济和脱碳战略至关重要，但工业林业在社会生态转型过程中的（潜在）贡献和作用存在争议。通过提出的分析框架，本文将林业研究为在社会和经济上调解个人、社会和自然之间关系的行业。本文通过将其应用于工业林业的两个典型案例来说明拟议框架的分析潜力：芬兰和加拿大阿尔伯塔省。本文得出的结论是，在所研究的两种情况下，这样的框架可以为工业林业的可持续性挑战提供相关见解。需要积极寻求评估和利用森林的新途径，以将林业部门纳入更广泛的社会生态转型项目。