Towards harmonized assessment of European forest availability for wood supply in Europe

Alberdi, Iciar; Michalak, Roman; Fischer, Christoph; Gasparini, Patrizia; Brändli, Urs-Beat; Tomter, Stein Michael; Kuliešis, Andrius; Snorrason, Arnór; Redmond, John; Hernández, Laura; Lanz, Adrian; Vidondo, Beatriz; Stoyanov, Nickola; Stoyanova, Maria; Vestman, Martin; Barreiro, Susana; Marin, Gheorghe; Cañellas, Isabel; Vidal, Claude

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2016.05.014

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“…5). This figure is significantly lower than large-scale estimates of AWS in Europe (e.g., 44-96% in Alberdi et al 2016), mostly due to the high incidence of protected areas, privately owned forests -particularly in chestnut (98%) and oak (72%) forests, and high distance from roads, mostly in pine (94%) and larch (60%) forests. It is not unlikely that both private owners and protected areas could be included in a forest carbon management project, if obstacles posed by property fragmentation and by allowed harvest in protected areas could be overcome.…”

Section: Carbon Accountingmentioning

confidence: 64%

Voluntary carbon credits from improved forest management: policy guidelines and case study

Vacchiano¹,

Berretti²,

Romano³

et al. 2018

iForest

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Human activities have the potential to enhance carbon sequestration by the world's forests and contribute to climate change mitigation. Voluntary carbon trading is currently the only option to pursue and reward carbon sequestration by forestry activities. Carbon credits for enhanced sequestration can be sold to partners wishing to offset their own emissions. Here we illustrate the steps taken to design guidelines for the generation of voluntary carbon credits by improved forest management in Piemonte, Italy. The guidelines have been developed in a joint effort by academia, regional administrations, forest owners and professional consultants. In particular, we show how to compute the baseline and the additionality of credit-generating forest management activities, and how to reconcile the generation of forest carbon credits with law requirements, technical limitations, and the provision of other ecosystem services. To illustrate the profitability of carbon credit generation, we simulated the application of carbon credit guidelines to two forest-rich mountain watersheds in the southern part of the Piemonte region. The two dominating tree species are beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and chestnut (Castanea sativa Mill.). We computed current forest carbon stock and carbon credits generated in 20 years under business as usual and an alternative biomass retention scenario. The IFM resulted in an avoided harvest of 39,362 m 3 for a net total of 64,014 MgCO2e after subtracting harvest emissions, or 38 Mg ha -1 throughout the permanence period of 20 years. These steps can be replicated in other mountain regions where there is interest in promoting this ecosystem service as an alternative or an addition to production-oriented forest management.

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Section: Carbon Accountingmentioning

confidence: 64%

Voluntary carbon credits from improved forest management: policy guidelines and case study

Vacchiano¹,

Berretti²,

Romano³

et al. 2018

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“…Forests and wood products play a key role in international climate policy, as they can store carbon, and, in addition, wood-based products can be used to replace materials and energy from non-renewable sources. Carbon credits and increased demand for bioenergy (European Commission 2009;2014) have again arisen concern about the availability of wood recourses (Hänninen and Kallio 2007;Nabuurs et al 2007;Alberdi et al 2016;Barreiro et al 2016;Packalen et al 2016). At the same time, political decisions have been made to preserve forest biodiversity (United Nations 1992;European Commission 2006;2011) and, consequently, to increase areas setaside for conservation and encourage ecologically oriented forest management.…”

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Multi-source forest inventory data for forest production and utilization analyses at different levels

Haakana¹

2017

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National forest inventory (NFI) data are commonly used in national and regional scenario analyses on forest production and utilization possibilities. There is an increased demand for similar analyses at the sub-regional level, and further, to incorporate spatially explicit data into the analyses. However, the fairly sparse network of NFI sample plots allows analyses only for large areas. The present dissertation explored whether satellite imagery, NFI sample plot data and the k nearest neighbour estimation method can be employed in generating spatial forest data for scenario analyses at the local level. The method was first applied in the area of two villages in Eastern Finland to quantify the effects of administrative land use and technical land-form constraints on timber production. Secondly, the impacts of three alternative regional felling strategies on suitable habitat for the Siberian flying squirrel (Pteromys volans) were assessed.As a scenario analysis tool, the Finnish forestry dynamics model MELA was used. Management units for simulations of forest development and management activities were delineated by means of image segmentation and digital maps on restriction areas, and new weights for NFI sample plots, that is, the representativeness in these units, were estimated by means of satellite image data. The performance of different segmentation methods and different spectral features in the estimation were examined. Image segments corresponding to forest stands enabled the use of patch-and landscape-level models in the prediction of suitable habitat.Satellite image-based estimation of new NFI sample plot weights was found to be a feasible method for generating forest data for scenario analyses in areas smaller than is possible with the plot data only, for example, for municipalities. Satellite imagery with large geographic coverage and continuous NFI field measurements provide cost-efficient data sources for versatile impact and scenario analyses at the local level.

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“…The national definitions of FAWS differ considerably from country to country as summarised in Table 2.5, extracted from Alberdi et al (2016). Generally, different restrictions and thresholds are considered by the countries to determine "forest not available for wood supply" (FNAWS) (such as protected areas or slope) and therefore FAWS is estimated by exclusion.…”

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Comparison of Wood Resource Assessment in National Forest Inventories

Redmond¹,

Gschwantner

Riedel

et al. 2016

National Forest Inventories

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The main objective of COST Action Usewood was to improve and harmonise data and information on the potential sustainable supply of wood resources at European level based on NFIs. The question of availability of wood in Europe on a sustainable basis is highly relevant to define global change mitigation strategies and targets for biomass energy as adopted at national and European level, and to support the proposal of an increased use of wood as a post-Kyoto decision. NFIs were

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Towards harmonized assessment of European forest availability for wood supply in Europe

Cited by 55 publications

References 4 publications

Voluntary carbon credits from improved forest management: policy guidelines and case study

Voluntary carbon credits from improved forest management: policy guidelines and case study

Multi-source forest inventory data for forest production and utilization analyses at different levels

Comparison of Wood Resource Assessment in National Forest Inventories

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