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| Tekijä: | Bjornstad, E. Skonhoft, A. |
| Otsikko: | Wood Fuel or Carbon Sink? Aspects of Forestry in the Climate Question |
| Lehti: | Environmental and Resource Economics
2002 : DEC, VOL. 23:4, p. 447-465 |
| Asiasana: | CLIMATE FORESTRY INDUSTRY JOINT PRODUCTION |
| Kieli: | eng |
| Tiivistelmä: | This paper discusses and contrasts two main roles of forestry in light of the debate on the global climate. As the main problem is related to the increases of the CO2- concentration in the atmosphere, forests may be viewed as part of the alleviation of the problem through their function as (i) a source of biomass for energy production, which may replace fossil fuels and thus indirectly reduce CO2-emissions, and as (ii) carbon storage, since a growing forest extracts atmospheric CO2 and fixes it as carbon in biomass. In the Scandinavian forestry, logging residues are increasingly being used for energy production. In this paper the value of forests as a source of bioenergy is added to the traditional timber value. |
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