Linking construction timber carbon storage with land use and forestry management practices
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IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. Cyfrol 323 IOP Publishing, 2019. 012142 (IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science; Cyfrol 323, Rhif 1).
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T1 - Linking construction timber carbon storage with land use and forestry management practices
AU - Forster, Eilidh
AU - Healey, John
AU - Dymond, Caren
AU - Nwman, Gary
AU - Davies, Gareth
AU - Styles, David
PY - 2019/10/28
Y1 - 2019/10/28
N2 - Consequential life cycle assessment was applied to forestry systems to evaluate the environmental balance of expanding forestry onto marginal agricultural land to supply more timber for the built environment, accounting for land use effects and product substitution. Forestry expansion to supply timber buildings could mitigate UK greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2.4 Gg CO2 eq. per ha of forest over 100 years, though net mitigation could be halved if beef production were displaced to Brazil. Forest thinning increases wood yields and percentage conversion of harvested wood to construction sawnwood, resulting in 5% greater net GHG mitigation compared with unthinned systems. Optimising the environmental sustainability of construction timber value chains in a circular, bio-based economy will require holistic accounting of land use (change), forestry management and complex flows of wood.
AB - Consequential life cycle assessment was applied to forestry systems to evaluate the environmental balance of expanding forestry onto marginal agricultural land to supply more timber for the built environment, accounting for land use effects and product substitution. Forestry expansion to supply timber buildings could mitigate UK greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2.4 Gg CO2 eq. per ha of forest over 100 years, though net mitigation could be halved if beef production were displaced to Brazil. Forest thinning increases wood yields and percentage conversion of harvested wood to construction sawnwood, resulting in 5% greater net GHG mitigation compared with unthinned systems. Optimising the environmental sustainability of construction timber value chains in a circular, bio-based economy will require holistic accounting of land use (change), forestry management and complex flows of wood.
UR - https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1755-1315/323/1/012142
M3 - Conference contribution
VL - 323
T3 - IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science
BT - IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science
PB - IOP Publishing
ER -