The FFSm 1.0 model: From research tool in economics to its use in decision support.

Summary This article attempts to determine the nature and scope of the results of a prospective economic model, the French Forest Sector Model, representing a complex bioeconomic system in the form of thousands of equations. In particular, it shows that, beyond the figures it produces, such a model has the capacity to highlight the determinants of real phenomena, to determine their order of magnitude and their sensitivity to real parameters. Within the framework of an assessment, the interest of using such a model lies in the comparison of output variables (prices, supply and demand of wood products, economic surplus) according to different scenarios.