Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of forest supply chains: Comparison of Canadian and Swedish case studies

Fuente, Teresa de la; Athanassiadis, Dimitris; González‐García, Sara; Nordfjell, Tomas

doi:10.1016/j.jclepro.2016.12.034

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“…Several studies investigated fuel consumption and CO2 emissions related with different phases of forest operations for different wood products. CO2 emission ranges from 5 to 12 kg m -3 according to logging methods and local conditions (Manner et al, 2013;Korpilahtia, 1998;Klvač and Skoupý, 2009;Klva č et al, 2012;Fuente et al, 2017). On the basis of these data we can roughly estimate a total emission from forest operation ranging from 18 and 44 Tg of carbon dioxide per year at a global level.…”

Section: -Improving Forest Operations Under Climate Cha Ngementioning

confidence: 98%

“…Over the past years both methods have been compared with respect to fuel consumption (Sambo, 1997), damage to soils and residual trees during felling and terrain transport (MacDonell and Groot, 1997), as well as harvesting costs and machine system production rates (Lanford and Stokes, 1996;Hartsough et al, 1997;Plamondon and Page, 1997;Favreau and Gingras, 1998;Spinelli et al, 2014). In general, cut-to-length systems tend to have less soil impacts and residual tree damages (Bembenek et al, 2013a;2013b;Han et al, 2006;, as well as consume less fuels than full-tree harvesting (Ghaffariyan et al, 2015;Fuente et al 2017;Athanassiadis et al, 1999;Greene et al, 2014). For economic efficiency, Uusitalo (2010) concludes that no general differences between the two methods, and the differences tend to be marginal and stand-dependent; full-tree system is i n general more efficient on large-sized stands at short extraction distances (Uusitalo, 2010).…”

Section: Moving Towards Sfo: Improving Work Systems and Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Sustainable Forest Operations (SFO): A new paradigm in a changing world and climate

Marchi

Chung

Visser

et al. 2018

Science of The Total Environment

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The effective implementation of sustainable forest management depends largely on carrying out forest operations in a sustainable manner. Climate change, as well as the increasing demand for forest products, requires a re-thinking of forest operations in terms of sustainability. In this context, it is important to understand the major driving factors for the future development of forest operations that promote economic, environmental and social well-being. The main objective of this paper is to identify important issues concerning forest operations and to propose a new paradigm towards sustainability in a changing climate, work and environmental conditions. Previously developed concepts of forest operations are reviewed, and a newly developed concept - Sustainable Forest Operations (SFO), is presented. Five key performance areas to ensure the sustainability of forest operations include: (i) environment; (ii) ergonomics; (iii) economics; (iv) quality optimization of products and production; and (v) people and society. Practical field examples are presented to demonstrate how these five interconnected principles are relevant to achieving sustainability, namely profit and wood quality maximization, ecological benefits, climate change mitigation, carbon sequestration, and forest workers' health and safety. The new concept of SFO provides integrated perspectives and approaches to effectively address ongoing and foreseeable challenges the global forest communities face, while balancing forest operations performance across economic, environmental and social sustainability. In this new concept, we emphasize the role of wood as a renewable and environmentally friendly material, and forest workers' safety and utilization efficiency and waste management as additional key elements of sustainability.

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Section: -Improving Forest Operations Under Climate Cha Ngementioning

confidence: 98%

Section: Moving Towards Sfo: Improving Work Systems and Technologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustainable Forest Operations (SFO): A new paradigm in a changing world and climate

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“…LCA and GHG emission analyses have been applied to biomass supply chains, e.g. Berg and Lindholm (2005), Kariniemi et al (2009), Lindholm et al (2010), Jäppinen et al (2014), de la Fuente et al (2017), and Raghu et al (2020.…”

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Roundwood and Biomass Logistics in Finland and Sweden

Väätäinen

Anttila

Eliasson

et al. 2020

Croat. j. for. eng. (Online)

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Logistics of roundwood and biomass comprise a high number of operations, machinery, storage sites and transportable roundwood and biomass assortments. Moreover, complex and highly varying operational environment through the year poses logistics challenges incurring additional costs. An extensive review of studies was conducted in Sweden and Finland concerning roundwood and biomass logistics, starting from roadside landings and ending with delivery to a mill or a conversion facility. The main aim of the review was to describe trends in roundwood and biomass logistics since the start of the century. Papers were classified to categories of truck transports and roads, terminals, multimodal transports, storage and supply chain logistics. Slightly over 50% of reviewed articles were constrained to biomass only, 31% to roundwood only and 14% to both. Rapid technology development, amendments concerning road transports, increasing environmental concerns and forestry sector’s push to decrease the logistics costs can be seen as the biggest drivers for the reviewed studies and their study objectives. These aspects will also drive and increase the demand for research and development in roundwood and biomass logistics in the future.

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“…Harvesting operations and the transport of the logs to the forest landings are included in all studies that were reviewed. Some include all processes until the industry gate [40,45,[54][55][56][57][58][59][60][61][62][63][64].…”

Section: Environmental Impacts Of Forest Operationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Eutrophication (excess nutrient availability in freshwater and marine ecosystems) and acidification (increased soil and water acidity) were also used as a metric of impact in many of the reviewed studies [e.g., 54,63,[66][67][68][69][70][71]. In [71], intensive fertilization of fast-growing willow plantations had the highest effect in both eutrophication and acidification due to application of manure and nitrogen mineral fertilizer.…”

Section: Environmental Impacts Of Forest Operationsmentioning

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Sustainability Impact Assessment of Forest Operations: a Review

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Purpose of Review One of the challenges of forest operations is to consider the consequences of different management strategies and to estimate the economic, environmental and social performance of different processes, products, or services. From the methods available to quantify the impact of alternative forest management, we selected the method of Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA), an iterative process that includes the analysis of the societal, environmental, and economic sustainability pillars and offers a wider assessment framework, which is useful for stakeholders and policy makers. The purpose of this review is to identify the state of the art and trends of SIA in forest operations. Recent Findings There are few studies including all pillars of sustainability and most of the studies consider different aspects of environmental or economic impacts. It is important to determine the system boundaries and select the appropriate indicators in order to have a comprehensive SIA. Different harvesting technologies and their deployment can influence costs, productivity, environment, and safety risk. Some indicators, such as cost and productivity, can vary between countries and different scenarios. Summary Efficient machines, appropriate technical systems, innovative products, and up-to date training of operators can have a positive impact on sustainability. Economic factors can change at a rapid pace, and new machines can play a positive role in forest operations (e.g., lower fuel consumption, higher level of safety and comfort for operators). The inclusion of indicators measuring the extra value of the forest should be considered. We suggest adopting sensitivity analysis during the assessment of key processes to observe the effect on the hot spots.

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Cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of forest supply chains: Comparison of Canadian and Swedish case studies

Cited by 27 publications

References 14 publications

Sustainable Forest Operations (SFO): A new paradigm in a changing world and climate

Sustainable Forest Operations (SFO): A new paradigm in a changing world and climate

Roundwood and Biomass Logistics in Finland and Sweden

Sustainability Impact Assessment of Forest Operations: a Review

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