Sustainable development has become an overall policy objective in the European Union and in the MATISSE project the forest sector is chosen as one case study, among three others, to illustrate the possibility of achieving a step-wise advance in the science and application of Integrated Sustainability Assessment (ISA) of EU policies. The core objective of the MATISSE project was to improve the tool kit available for conducting Integrated Sustainability Assessment.
In the forest sector case study it is necessary to apply a detailed forest sector model like the EFI-GTM to estimate dose-response functions of the impacts of changes in certain policy variables. EFI, acting as a subcontractor, provided UMB with expert services related to analyses with the EFI-GTM model in the framework of the MATISSE project WP 4.1.