Exploring Environmental and Economic Costs and Benefits of a Forest-Based Circular Economy: A Literature Review

Lazaridou, Dimitra; Michailidis, Anastasios; Τρίγκας, Μάριος

doi:10.3390/f12040436

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“…It was assumed that the lower ecological footprint values (Garcia-Bernabeu et al, 2020) and the higher values of the others would be related to a stronger circularity. The same relationship is expected with the following variable, also at the country level, that aims to measure the importance attached to the carbon storage in harvested wood products (Jarre et al, 2020;Lazaridou et al, 2021). Another variable would be the percentage represented by trade in the GDP of each country, which is assumed to have a negative relationship with the degree of circularity (Liu & Ramakrishna, 2021).…”

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An analysis of the degree of circularity of the wood products industry in Europe

Dı́az-Balteiro

Romero

Jalón

2022

J of Industrial Ecology

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By developing products derived from materials included in what is nowadays called bioeconomy, the wood products industry is today receiving considerable attention for its potential to provide more environment‐friendly materials. At the same time, this and other industries are transforming to obtain more circular production systems. This study aims to analyze circularity in this type of industry at a European Union level, by establishing a ranking of countries based on their performance in an aggregate circularity index. This task has been set up by taking an initial joint set of indicators for all countries and covering a time horizon of up to 19 years. After proceeding to normalize those indicators and applying an analysis of correlation, a biannual ranking (from 2008 to 2018) was made, using for this purpose a multicriteria decision‐making model that includes three different types of solutions. Next, a statistical model that helped to explain the rankings previously obtained was proposed, in which a set of 15 explanatory variables were defined. The results showed that Sweden, and to a lesser extent Portugal, are the countries presenting a more circular wood products industry, whereas the Benelux countries give the worst result. Moreover, the statistical models showed that the variables related to trade had a negative relationship with circularity, but some of them exerted a strong effect, such as the ratio “production/exports.” Global competitiveness also tended to diminish wood circularity. Other variables, like those related to research and development, had a strong effect positively linked to circularity.

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Section: Statistical Modelsmentioning

confidence: 79%

An analysis of the degree of circularity of the wood products industry in Europe

Dı́az-Balteiro

Romero

Jalón

2022

J of Industrial Ecology

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“…The circular economy and the bioeconomy are two concepts that tend to overlap, and both focus on resources [66]. The circular economy aims to reduce resource use and consumption, promote recycling activities, and minimize waste and emissions [67]. Bioeconomy aims to substitute non-renewable resources with bio-based alternatives [46] with a focus on the introduction of bio-based energy and materials to decrease environmental risks [28].…”

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The Knowledge Based Agricultural Bioeconomy: A Bibliometric Network Analysis

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The last ten years have witnessed an increase in publications focusing on bioeconomy as a proposal to confront the global challenges of climate change, depletion of non-renewable resources and ecosystem degradation. This paper investigates the scientific literature on issues related agricultural bioeconomy by applying a bibliometric network analysis. Bibliometric analysis is applied to the publications of the Scopus database during the period 2010–2020 in order to provide an overview of the main aspects that characterize agricultural bioeconomy. The results showed that out of a total of 1100 scientific papers, only 2.45% were published in 2010, while the corresponding share in 2020 was 20.81%. In the five years of 2016–2020, cumulatively, 70.63% of the publications were made, showing the dynamic evolution of bioeconomy. In addition, out of 85 countries in total, Germany and Italy are the two countries with most publications, while the fragmentation of research is evident with the creation of two main nodes, the European and the American. Moreover, keyword analysis showed that biomass and sustainability are two main recurring concepts, confirming that, currently, bioeconomy operates at three different levels: energy demand, land demand, and governance. It is apparent that to boost the development of agricultural bioeconomy, the following aspects should be assessed: the effective use of resources, an understanding of the key drivers of agricultural bioeconomy, and a clear perception of their associations. There is still no consensus as to which are the key factors that will accelerate its sustainable development. Our pursuit is to use the tools of bibliometric analysis to reach more critical conclusions regarding the agricultural bioeconomy, rather than approach it in a static way.

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“…The circular economy provides opportunities for the forest sector, environmental protection, new job creation, and economic growth. So far, the measurement of the circular economy implementation in the forest is conducted by a descriptive and cluster analysis (Lazaridou, Michailidis, & Trigkas, 2021).…”

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Implementation of Circular Economy in Peatlands to Support Sustainable Food Security in Post Covid-19 Era

Pertiwiningrum¹,

Wuri²,

Sugiyanto³

2022

JRE

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The peatlands in Indonesia have changed quite a lot in recent years due to over-exploitation and climate change. The land-use change on peatlands resulted in soil infertility. The impacts of the degradation of peatlands are almost certain to worsen with the COVID-19 pandemic because the peatlands have an important role in providing food resources. Therefore, the peatlands restoration must be carried out considering the importance of the peatlands as food resources and carbon capture. One of the alternative solutions is to recycle the waste from agroforestry into organic fertiliser. This study aimed to investigate the application of organic fertiliser to restore soil fertility in the peatlands. The study also offered the circular economy scheme that can be applied in the peatlands to restore sustainability. The results showed that the degraded peatland that has been restored by adding organic fertiliser from local sources has a higher soil pH level than the one without adding organic fertiliser. The increase in pH level can decrease soil hydrophobicity and increase microorganism activities, encouraging biodiversity in the peatlands. In this study, the circular economy scheme by the integration between agroforestry and livestock was assessed economically and environmentally. Recycling cows’ manure and leaf litter from peatlands into energy and recycling biogas sludge into biochar for biogas purification and soil enrichment benefit economically and contribute to mitigating greenhouse gas emissions.

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Exploring Environmental and Economic Costs and Benefits of a Forest-Based Circular Economy: A Literature Review

Cited by 24 publications

References 81 publications

An analysis of the degree of circularity of the wood products industry in Europe

An analysis of the degree of circularity of the wood products industry in Europe

The Knowledge Based Agricultural Bioeconomy: A Bibliometric Network Analysis

Implementation of Circular Economy in Peatlands to Support Sustainable Food Security in Post Covid-19 Era

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