The impact of landscape design planning on the timber production and financial outputs of a forest plantation in Ireland |
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| Authors: | Maarten Nieuwenhuis Denis Gallagher |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Forestry, National University of Ireland, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland;2. Coillte Teoranta (The Irish Forestry Board), Sligo, Ireland;1. Unité Mixte de Recherche Biologie des ORganismes et Ecosystèmes Aquatiques (BOREA), MNHN, UPMC, UCBN, CNRS-7208, IRD-207, Université de Caen Basse Normandie, Esplanade de la Paix, 14032 Caen, France;2. CNRS, Laboratoire d’Océanologie et de Géosciences, UMR LOG CNRS 8187, Université des Sciences et Technologies, Lille 1–BP 80, 62930 Wimereux, France;3. Centre Scientifique de Monaco, Marine Department, 8 Quai Antoine Ier, MC-98000 Monaco, Principality of Monaco, France;4. CNRS UMS 829, Sorbonne Universités (UPMC University Paris 6), Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer, 06230 Villefranche-sur-Mer, France;5. Irstea–Aquatic Ecosystems and Global Changes Unit, 50 avenue de Verdun, 33612 Gazinet Cestas cedex, France;6. Unité Mixte de Recherche LIttoral ENvironnement et Sociétés, Université de la Rochelle, Institut du Littoral et de l’Environnement, 2 rue Olympe de Gouges, 17000 La Rochelle, France;7. Unité Mixte de Recherche Laboratoire des Sciences de l’Environnement Marin (CNRS/UBO/IRD/Ifremer), Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, Rue Dumont d’Urville, 29280 Plouzané, France;8. Unité Mixte de Recherche IPSL/LSCE, CNRS-CEA-UVSQ, Bâtiment 712, Orme des Merisiers, 91191 Gif sur Yvette, France;9. AZTI–Tecnalia, Marine Research Division, Herrera Kaia Portualdea z/g, 20110 Pasaia, Basque Country, Spain;1. Department of Food Science and Technology, CEBAS-CSIC, P.O. Box 164, 30100 Espinardo, Murcia, Spain;2. Breast Pathology Unit, Hospital José María Morales Meseguer, Avda. Marqués de los Vélez, s/n, Murcia, Spain;1. School of Planning, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Queen''s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland BT9 5AG, United Kingdom;2. School of Geography and Archaeology, National University of Ireland, Galway, University Road, Galway, Ireland;1. Université de Lorraine, Inra, LERMaB, F88000 Epinal, France;2. Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Brasília, Brasília, DF 70910-900, Brazil;3. Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan;4. Service de Recherche et d’Expertise en Transformation des Produits Forestiers 25-5 rue Armand Sinclair, QC G5J 1K3, Amqui Quebec, Canada;5. CIRAD, UPR BioWooEB, F34398 Montpellier, France;6. Joint Graduate School of Energy and Environment, Center of Excellence on Energy, Technology and Environment-KMUTT, Bangkok 10140, Thailand;7. Research Center for Energy Technology and Strategy, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan |
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| Abstract: | Significant expansion has occurred in Ireland's forest estate since the 1950s. However, the design of the monocultural plantations established in the 1950s and 60s is now considered insensitive to local landscapes and re-design intervention and transformation is needed to improve integration into the environment. This case study was carried out in Laracus forest, Co. Donegal. The rotation of all stands in this 581-ha property has reached the final production phase, with coupes scheduled for clearfelling from 2003 to 2015. The implications of forest re-design for both the volume production in the current rotation and the financial return of the current and subsequent rotations were examined. Results indicated a volume loss due to design planning for the current rotation of 5.6% compared to the volume produced under the standard regime. In financial terms, this represents a loss of 4.6%. For the subsequent rotation, a significant financial gain of 22% in net present value was achieved as a result of redesigning the plantation. The overall financial out-turn for the property, when both the current and subsequent rotations were considered, was a 3.4% lower net present value for the design plan than for the standard regime. This result represents a lower impact of design planning in Laracus than most other forest restructuring studies have reported. |
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| Keywords: | Forest landscape design Forest transformation Sustainable development Economic analysis Timber production |
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