In his 1949 book The Coming Age of Wood, Egon Glesinger (1907–1979), of the newly founded US Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), described the global importance of wood as a raw material and predicted an increasing demand for it in the future. His vision for the sustainable use of wood was inhibited, however, by the decreasing prices of other raw materials like coal and oil during the beginning of the 1950s.
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- Glesinger, Egon. The Coming Age of Wood. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949.
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