Position papers, policy briefs and vision papers

Luke produces position papers, policy briefs and vision papers on topical issues to support decision-making.

Policy Briefs

Policy Brief: The sustainability of the food system can be improved by using nutrition as a basis for comparing the environmental impact of food

Other publications

2025

Policy Brief: Improved herring stock assessment aids sustainable management

Other publications

2025

Policy Brief: Forest soil challenges in Europe : solutions through sustainable forest management and monitoring

Other publications

2025

Policy Brief: Build public trust: Six factors for increasing wind power acceptance

Other publications

2024

Policy Brief: Towards competitive sustainability and well-being of people from European forests

Other publications

2024

Policy Brief: Continuous cover forestry in northern boreal forests : opportunities and challenges

Other publications

2024

Policy Brief: Soil as part of climate solution – agricultural policy reform to promote climate-smart agriculture

Other publications

2021

Policy brief. Strawberries with fraudulent country-of-origin information can now be revealed

Other publications

2020

POLICY BRIEF Harnessing forests for the Sustainable Development Goals: Building synergies and mitigating trade-offs

Refereed scientific publications

2019

DIABOLO policy brief. Responding to European, national and regional challenges with harmonised forest information

Other publications

2019

Policy Brief: The potential of the finnish arctic bioeconomy depends on entrepreneurial spirit and cooperation

Other publications

2018

Policy Brief: Nutrient recycling – from vision to practice

Other publications

2017

Position Papers

Europe's competitiveness compass points to the biosociety

Healthy forests, healthy society, healthy sector

Clean Industrial Deal should capitalize on the full benefits of the forest–based bioeconomy

EU needs more from bioeconomy

Northern natural resources research provides solutions for the green transition – outlook for open strategic autonomy (2023)

Three key messages concerning the proposal for EU Soil Monitoring Law (2023)

Emerging role of Boreal food production in the European context - securing European self-sufficiency and carbon neutrality by 2035 (2023)

Circular bioeconomy: tools for resilient primary production and security of supply with added value (2022)

Solutions to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss in the land use sector (2022)

Balancing between biodiversity, carbon sequestration and the use of forest resources: No simple solutions (2021)

Global food systems – challenges and potential for transformation (2020)

In the frame of The European Green Deal and the Farm to Fork Strategy - New innovations in freshwater aquaculture for expansion of profitable and environmentally friendly production (2019)

Position papers, policy briefs and vision papers

Policy Briefs

Policy Brief: The sustainability of the food system can be improved by using nutrition as a basis for comparing the environmental impact of food

Policy Brief: Improved herring stock assessment aids sustainable management

Policy Brief: Forest soil challenges in Europe : solutions through sustainable forest management and monitoring

Policy Brief: Build public trust: Six factors for increasing wind power acceptance

Policy Brief: Towards competitive sustainability and well-being of people from European forests

Policy Brief: Continuous cover forestry in northern boreal forests : opportunities and challenges

Policy Brief: Soil as part of climate solution – agricultural policy reform to promote climate-smart agriculture

Policy brief. Strawberries with fraudulent country-of-origin information can now be revealed

POLICY BRIEF Harnessing forests for the Sustainable Development Goals: Building synergies and mitigating trade-offs

DIABOLO policy brief. Responding to European, national and regional challenges with harmonised forest information

Policy Brief: The potential of the finnish arctic bioeconomy depends on entrepreneurial spirit and cooperation

Policy Brief: Nutrient recycling – from vision to practice

Position Papers

Europe's competitiveness compass points to the biosociety

Healthy forests, healthy society, healthy sector

Clean Industrial Deal should capitalize on the full benefits of the forest–based bioeconomy

EU needs more from bioeconomy

Northern natural resources research provides solutions for the green transition – outlook for open strategic autonomy (2023)

Three key messages concerning the proposal for EU Soil Monitoring Law (2023)

Emerging role of Boreal food production in the European context - securing European self-sufficiency and carbon neutrality by 2035 (2023)

Circular bioeconomy: tools for resilient primary production and security of supply with added value (2022)

Solutions to mitigate climate change and biodiversity loss in the land use sector (2022)

Balancing between biodiversity, carbon sequestration and the use of forest resources: No simple solutions (2021)

Global food systems – challenges and potential for transformation (2020)

In the frame of The European Green Deal and the Farm to Fork Strategy - New innovations in freshwater aquaculture for expansion of profitable and environmentally friendly production (2019)

Vision and discussion papers

Valuable biochemicals of the future : The outlook for bio-based value-added chemicals and their growing markets

2035 Vision: Doubling the Value Added of Finland´s Forest sector

Cascade vision : Regionally adaptive circular bioeconomy – added value, wellbeing and resource wisdom with cascade processing