Towards assessing the sustainability of European logging operations |
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Authors: | Staffan Berg Janine Fischbach Franka Brüchert Mikael Poissonnet Stefania Pizzirani Anne Varet Udo H Sauter |
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Institution: | 1.The Forestry Research Institute of Sweden (Skogforsk),Uppsala,Sweden;2.Institute of Forest Utilization and Work Science, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg (ALUFR),Freiburg im Breisgau,Germany;3.Forest Research Institute Baden-Württemberg (FVA),Freiburg im Breisgau,Germany;4.L’Institut Technologique Forêt Cellulose Bois-construction Ameublement (FCBA),Paris,France;5.Forest Research, Northern Research Station,Roslin,UK |
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Abstract: | The forest-based sector has been at the forefront in operationally implementing the sustainability concept, its associated
principles and indicators for sustainable forest management. Several methods have been developed to study environmental impacts
of forestry activities, but none of the existing tools address all the dimensions of sustainability along the whole forest
wood chain (FWC) in a balanced way. Consequently, the decision was made to develop a tool for sustainability impact assessment
(ToSIA), the modelling framework for sustainability impact assessment of FWCs. The objective of the EU Project Eforwood was
to develop ToSIA, a decision support tool. Within ToSIA, a FWC is modelled as a number of interconnected processes. For each
process, a range of economic, environmental and social indicators and their respective values are calculated, thus representing
the three pillars of sustainability. By this method, the multifunctionality of forests can be assessed and supply chains can
be compared with respect to sustainability. Sensitivity analysis and scenario techniques can be applied to learn about the
effect of expected changes to the structure of the chain, the material flows and the indicator values. In order to provide
the tool with information about forest and logging operations, data were collected at two fundamental levels: (1) a regional
level with case studies in Scandinavia, Iberia and Baden-Württemberg and (2) a European level with a case study that reflects
conditions in the 27 countries of the European Union. This paper describes and details the harvesting and logging processes
for the European countries. The results are displayed for each of the three regional case studies as well as aggregated to
five principal areas in Europe: Eastern, Northern, Western, Central and Southwest Europe. |
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