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ToSIA - the Tool for Sustainability Impact Assessment

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Oct 10, 2025
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ToSIA is a decision support tool for the forestry sector that analyses sustainability impacts of Forest-Wood-Chains and related value chains. It compares alternative process chains using scenarios to assess environmental, economic, and social effects of deliberate actions (policies, business) or external forces (climate change, markets) by tracking material flows and sustainability indicators.

ToSIA - Tool for Sustainability Impact Assessment

ToSIA (Tool for Sustainability Impact Assessment) is a decision support tool for the forestry sector. With this tool, forest-based industry, national and international policy makers, and researchers can analyse the sustainability effects of changes due to deliberate actions (e.g. in policies or business activities) or due to external forces (e.g. climate change, global markets). ToSIA analyses environmental, economic, and social impacts of changes in forestry-wood production chains, using a consistent and harmonised framework from the forest to the end-of-life of final products. It allows users to analyse different kinds of sustainability effects in a balanced way. The tool includes an Multi-Criteria Assessment (MCA) module.

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ToSIA - leading the way to sustainability
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Source/Author(s)
  • European Forest Institute
Topic
  • Economic & Financial
  • Social & Stakeholder
Stakeholders
  • Landowners & Practitioners
  • Planners & Implementers
Purpose
  • Climate change mitigation
  • Non-timber products
  • Wood and biomass production
Biogeographic region
  • Atlantic
  • Boreal
Spatial scale
  • Landscape
  • Plot/Stand
  • Regional
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