Assessment of Forest Opening Up with Multi-criteria Analysis

Drosos, Vasileios C.; Liampas, Angelos-Sarantis G.; Giannoulas, Vasileios

doi:10.1016/j.protcy.2013.11.020

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“…Forest roads are an essential technical infrastructure within forest ecosystems (Drosos et al, 2013), serving a whole array of harvesting and silvicultural operations. In addition to these activities, forest roads serve other purposes such as hunting, hiking, fishing, forest fruit picking, and others that were not included in the LCA calculation.…”

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“…Another option is to use a variant with the lowest environmental impact when designing forest roads (Hayati et al, 2013;Picchio et al, 2018). It is also a question of making the forest accessible through an optimal forest road network, both from a technological and environmental perspective (Drosos et al, 2013), as well as, for example, fire protection (Majlingová, 2012).…”

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Life cycle assessment approach of silviculture and timber harvesting of Norway spruce – a case study in the Czech Republic

Hájek,

Pulkrab,

Purwestri

et al. 2024

Front. For. Glob. Change

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Compared to other sectors, the long rotation period in forest management makes it difficult to carry out a life cycle assessment (LCA). Data collection is not possible in a short time frame but would require decades. For this reason, forestry is often forced to rely on secondary data. To address this challenge, environmental impacts of the forestry sector in the Czech Republic were investigated according to the value chain corresponding to silvicultural and harvesting processes, without any further wood use options. The methodological procedure is based on the ISO 14040 and 14,044 standards, using SimaPro, an LCA software. The study was carried out in four phases of LCA in the scope of cradle-to-gate and focused on the early stages of the product life cycle. The system boundaries were set up to include seed collection, seedling production, establishment and tending of young forest stands up to 20 years of age, thinning, harvesting, maintenance of roads and extraction trails, with the endpoint is the hauling place. Three scenarios have been defined that differ in the method of harvesting. Scenario I– chainsaw felling, horse extraction. Scenario II– chainsaw (90% of hours worked) and harvester (10% of hour-worked), tractor extraction. Scenario III– chainsaw (23% of hour-worked) and harvester (77% of hour-worked), extraction by a tractor with a winch. The results show that the maintenance of the forest road network holds a significant share of the overall environmental impact of forest management. Other significant consequences are associated with timber harvesting. These impacts vary considerably depending on the mechanical equipment used. The highest impact was recorded for the third scenario, still, it is practically the most often applied, as it is the most cost-effective. The results show the need to optimize forest management practices in the future both from an economic and environmental point of view. The work on the life cycle assessment was particularly challenging because the silviculture and harvesting of raw timber involve 20 production operations. This research was based on long-term knowledge of forest typology, forest management planning, forest economics, experience with forest technologies, and regulatory measures. Thus, the findings serve for further analysis of LCA in timber production, and future analysis for other forest ecosystem services.

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Life cycle assessment approach of silviculture and timber harvesting of Norway spruce – a case study in the Czech Republic

Hájek,

Pulkrab,

Purwestri

et al. 2024

Front. For. Glob. Change

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“…For the optimum forest opening-up firstly the forest road network was investigated and the economically optimum road density Dec and the theoretically optimum road density Dth as well as the maximum road density Dmax were calculated applying the Kroth method [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [16]. The Dmax is calculated for the forest and tractor roads when the forest roads construction costs and the loss of the territorial income (revenue) do not take under consideration.…”

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“…Until the late 1970s, the "word" sustainability was only occasionally employed, in most cases to refer to ways through which forest resources should be used. It has, in other words, strong connections with the forestry sector from where, some believe, it originated [7].…”

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Environmentally sustainable management and development of mountainous regions under the scope of environmental impact assessments by the forest opening-up operations

Sismanidis,

Siafali,

Stavridou

et al. 2023

Ninth International Conference on Remote Sensing and Geoinformation of the Environment (RSCy2023)

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Greek forests are a valuable national treasure. Sustainable development of mountainous regions has as objective to increase the economic investments to profit of residents of regions, without however drastic influences on the natural environment. Respect for the natural environment and the goods it offers to us, enables its sustainable use. The ecosystems of the mountainous regions are sensitive to changes. Forest opening-up is one of the most important interventions in a forest ecosystem and is carried out by planning and constructing a transport network (forest roads, skidding tracks etc.), satisfying not only the need for skidding and transporting of forest products, but also forest protection and recreation activities. The fast development of P/C technology and GIS software provides an objective and effective evaluation of the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). The aim of this paper is to investigate the compatibility of the forest opening-up operations with the environment using measurable intensity and absorption criteria with state-of-the-art techniques and equipment. The implementation of this method requires an accurate and easy to update geographical database. Spatial analysis and processing are performed in an efficient and reliable way. The creation of various digital maps and diagrams help in choosing the most compatible solution for the environment.

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An approach for improving firefighting ability of forest road network

Zhang

Dong

et al. 2020

Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research

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Assessment of Forest Opening Up with Multi-criteria Analysis

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Life cycle assessment approach of silviculture and timber harvesting of Norway spruce – a case study in the Czech Republic

Life cycle assessment approach of silviculture and timber harvesting of Norway spruce – a case study in the Czech Republic

Environmentally sustainable management and development of mountainous regions under the scope of environmental impact assessments by the forest opening-up operations

An approach for improving firefighting ability of forest road network

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