Embracing sustainability in public-owned forest resources management: Lessons learned and perspectives

The growing interest in sustainability has pushed governments to elaborate new legislations and orientations and, turn, led companies organizations consider goals their strategies, operations management, decision-making processes. This is the case natural resources supply chains, particularly forest products where row resource publicly owned but exploited by private companies. While public owners are responsible for sustainable management of according three pillars, industrials tend focus on use allocated maximize utility, mainly from an economic perspective. key question how rethink whole owners/industrials relationship ensure consensual satisfactory solutions all stakeholders. In this context, paper reviews analyzes chain planning approaches proposed forestry literature based model observed sector province Quebec, Canada, proposes a new, performance-based approach overcome its challenges facilitate integration