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Assessing forest availability for wood supply in Europe

Assessing forest availability for wood supply in Europe

Authors :
V. Seben
Jonas Fridman
Stein Tomter
Alexandra Freudenschuß
O. Boriaud
Michal Bosela
B. Pesty
Andrea Camia
B.T. Kjartansson
Monica Notarangelo
Laura Hernández
V. Avitable
Thomas Gschwantner
Thomas Riedel
Milos Kucera
Arnór Snorrason
Adrian Lanz
Leónia Nunes
S. Mubareka
T. Pikula
Silvia Guerrero
Isabel Cañellas
Maria Rizzo
Christoph Fischer
F. Castro Rego
Patrizia Gasparini
Gheorghe Marin
Susann Bender
John Redmond
Iciar Alberdi
European Commission
Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación (España)
Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (España)
Slovak Research and Development Agency
Alberdi, Iciar
Bender, Susann
Avitabile, V.
Boriaud, O.
Bosela, Michal
Cañellas, I.
Castro Rego, Francisco
Fischer, Christoph
Freudenschuss, A.
Fridman, Jonas
Gasparini, P.
Gschwantner, Thomas
Notarangelo, Monica
Nunes, Leónia
Rizzo, M.
Sebeň, Vladimír
Snorrason, A.
Tomter, Stein Michael
Hernández, Laura
Source :
Forest Policy and Economics, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal, Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (RCAAP), instacron:RCAAP
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
Elsevier BV, 2020.

Abstract

14 Pág.<br />The quantification of forests available for wood supply (FAWS) is essential for decision-making with regard to the maintenance and enhancement of forest resources and their contribution to the global carbon cycle. The provision of harmonized forest statistics is necessary for the development of forest associated policies and to support decision-making. Based on the National Forest Inventory (NFI) data from 13 European countries, we quantify and compare the areas and aboveground dry biomass (AGB) of FAWS and forest not available for wood supply (FNAWS) according to national and reference definitions by determining the restrictions and associated thresholds considered at country level to classify forests as FAWS or FNAWS. FAWS represent between 75 and 95 % of forest area and AGB for most of the countries in this study. Economic restrictions are the main factor limiting the availability of forests for wood supply, accounting for 67 % of the total FNAWS area and 56 % of the total FNAWS AGB, followed by environmental restrictions. Profitability, slope and accessibility as economic restrictions, and protected areas as environmental restrictions are the factors most frequently considered to distinguish between FAWS and FNAWS. With respect to the area of FNAWS associated with each type of restriction, an overlap among the restrictions of 13.7 % was identified. For most countries, the differences in the FNAWS areas and AGB estimates between national and reference definitions ranged from 0 to 5 %. These results highlight the applicability and reliability of a FAWS reference definition for most of the European countries studied, thereby facilitating a consistent approach to assess forests available for supply for the purpose of international reporting.<br />This research was supported by the Specific contract n. 18 “Use of National Forest Inventories data to estimate area and above ground biomass in European forests not available for wood supply” in the context of the Framework contract for the provision of forest data and services supporting the European Forest Data Centre 2012/ S 78-127532 of 21/04/2012 of the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission; the EG-013-72 agreement of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPA) and the INIA belonging to the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN); and the project No.APVV-15-0265 granted by the Slovak Research and Development Agency.

Details

ISSN :
13899341
Volume :
111
Database :
OpenAIRE
Journal :
Forest Policy and Economics
Accession number :
edsair.doi.dedup.....f1ae24b0f73ee583ea6d30f33d338206
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forpol.2019.102032