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What Is the Impact of Mass Timber Utilization on Climate and Forests?

Sustainability 2022, 14(2), 758; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14020758
by Rachel Pasternack 1,*, Mark Wishnie 2, Caitlin Clarke 1, Yangyang Wang 1, Ethan Belair 1, Steve Marshall 3, Hongmei Gu 4, Prakash Nepal 4, Franz Dolezal 5, Guy Lomax 6, Craig Johnston 7, Gabriel Felmer 8, Rodrigo Morales-Vera 9, Maureen Puettmann 10 and Robyn Van den Huevel 11
Reviewer 1: Anonymous
Reviewer 2: Anonymous
Sustainability 2022, 14(2), 758; https://doi.org/10.3390/su14020758
Submission received: 16 November 2021 / Revised: 22 December 2021 / Accepted: 4 January 2022 / Published: 11 January 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mass Timber and Sustainable Building Construction)

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

This review is good and aligned with the current topic of climate change.

I only have a few feedback for the authors:

 

Lines 60 - 72: These short paragraphs can be combined into 1 paragraph.

Line 68: add abbreviation (CLT) after Cross-laminated timber

Lines 82-896: These sentences need literature support.

Line 119: For transparency, I suggest authors inform who are these collaborating organizations.

Line 120: The explanation of 'regions with high potential for mass timber utilization' is general. I suggest the authors provide facts or statistics that support the selection of China, Europe, Chile and the US as the chosen focus region.

Line 129: GMIAT should be GMTIA

Line 146-147: Please specify the 'several important forest regions".

Explain why forest impact assessment initially needs to be done in the US, why not initially do it in Chile etc.?

Lines 195 - 203: Check the line and paragraph spacing

Line 218: Is it a must to capitalize each word of 'Embodied Carbon' in this sentence? In other sentences, it is written in lower case.

Line 225: Need to remove extra spacing between 'sustainability.' and 'This..'.

Author Response

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Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Reviewer 2 Report

Based on the premise that it is a review article, which proposes to discuss theoretical and methodological assumptions about the use of wood in larger constructions and these impacts on the economy, markets, ecology, environment and climate have little improved and developed , few authors in the text. I believe that the article, as it is a relevant topic, needs to be complemented, expanded with more results, etc. Or, the Information here could be included as an introduction or part of another article by researchers on the subject, considering that of the 5 steps of the method, only 3 are completed. 

Comments for author File: Comments.pdf

Author Response

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Author Response File: Author Response.pdf

Round 2

Reviewer 2 Report

When evaluating the changes in the article, I consider that the changes have improved the version. 

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