Timber! by Paul Brannen

Timber! by Paul Brannen

Planting trees is not enough to reduce carbon. Counterintuitive as it may seem, we must also cut them down and start using wood as a construction material. With the built environment responsible for 40 per cent of the worlds carbon emissions, Brannen's message is clear: we must change how we build.

Timber! should be read by all those in planning, housing policy, construction and agriculture, and many more besidesPaul Brannen does a fabulous job of showing how feasible and beneficial it would be if we not only sequestered carbon through growing trees, but then locked it up in our buildings and insulation for many decades to come. With innovations like agroforestry on the one hand, and glulam on the other, it's easily within our grasp to grow and use more wood, with multiple benefits for society, not least to more rapidly solve our housing shortage through modular timber based buildings.

-- Helen Browning, Chief Executive, Soil Association

Timber! is a passionate and thought-provoking manifesto for the much bigger role wood and forestry could play in tackling the climate crisis and improving the built environment. It packs in a good deal of fact and analysis, as well as some controversial opinions, but always in an engaging way. I may never be as evangelical about timber as Paul Brannen, but I am now much better informed.

-- Shaun Spiers, Executive Director, Green Alliance

How good is wood? Paul Brannen's engaging and accessible book explains how building materials that are grown instead of mined can change buildings from being a climate problem to part of the solution.

-- Lloyd Alter, author of The Story of Upfront Carbon

Paul Brannen is Director of Public Affairs for the European Confederation of Woodworking Industries and the European Organisation of the Sawmill Industry and he also works for Timber Development UK. He is a former MEP and is a regular media contributor on environmental issues.

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ISBN 13	9781788217354
ISBN 10	1788217357
Title	Timber!
Author	Paul Brannen
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Agenda Publishing
Year published	2024-06-27
Number of pages	256
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