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Linking construction timber carbon storage with land use and forestry management practices

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Linking construction timber carbon storage with land use and forestry management practices. / Forster, Eilidh; Healey, John; Dymond, Caren et al.
IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. Vol. 323 IOP Publishing, 2019. 012142 (IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science; Vol. 323, No. 1).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

HarvardHarvard

Forster, E, Healey, J, Dymond, C, Nwman, G, Davies, G & Styles, D 2019, Linking construction timber carbon storage with land use and forestry management practices. in IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. vol. 323, 012142, IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science, no. 1, vol. 323, IOP Publishing.

APA

Forster, E., Healey, J., Dymond, C., Nwman, G., Davies, G., & Styles, D. (2019). Linking construction timber carbon storage with land use and forestry management practices. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science (Vol. 323). Article 012142 (IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science; Vol. 323, No. 1). IOP Publishing.

CBE

Forster E, Healey J, Dymond C, Nwman G, Davies G, Styles D. 2019. Linking construction timber carbon storage with land use and forestry management practices. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. IOP Publishing. Article 012142. (IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science; 1).

MLA

Forster, Eilidh et al. "Linking construction timber carbon storage with land use and forestry management practices". IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science; 1. IOP Publishing. 2019.

VancouverVancouver

Forster E, Healey J, Dymond C, Nwman G, Davies G, Styles D. Linking construction timber carbon storage with land use and forestry management practices. In IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. Vol. 323. IOP Publishing. 2019. 012142. (IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science; 1).

Author

Forster, Eilidh ; Healey, John ; Dymond, Caren et al. / Linking construction timber carbon storage with land use and forestry management practices. IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science. Vol. 323 IOP Publishing, 2019. (IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science; 1).

RIS

TY - GEN

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 -