Life cycle impacts of forest management and wood utilization on carbon mitigation: knowns and unknowns

Lippke, Bruce; Oneil, Elaine; Harrison, R. B.; Skog, Kenneth E.; Gustavsson, Leif; Sathre, Roger

doi:10.4155/cmt.11.24

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“…Using this approach Lippke et al (2011) find that, although forests are carbon sinks (storage pools), when biomass is burned as a fuel, the fossil-fuel emissions are displaced. While fossil-fuel emissions flow one way from deep reserves to the atmosphere, carbon emitted by burning biomass could be absorbed by regenerating forests, thereby making it a renewable energy source.…”

Section: Global Climate Change Mitigation and Tongass National Forestmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Biomass is a renewable and potentially carbonneutral source of energy. Plants harvested sustainably for fuel can grow again thereby sequestering carbon from the atmosphere (Lippke et al 2011). However, some studies suggest that the emissions associated with direct and indirect land-use change alone may negate the estimated climatic benefits of biofuels, particularly when they supplant carbonrich ecosystems and displace food production (German et al 2011).…”

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Sustainable Biomass Energy and Indigenous Cultural Models of Well-being in an Alaska Forest Ecosystem

Sikka¹,

Thornton²,

Worl³

2013

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ABSTRACT. Oil-dependent indigenous communities in remote regions of Alaska and elsewhere are facing an unprecedented crisis. With the cost of fuel and transport skyrocketing, energy costs are crippling local economies, leading to increasing outmigration and concern for their very existence in the future. What can be done to address this energy crisis, and promote energy security, sustainability and resilience in rural forest communities? We examine the potential of developing a sustainable biomass-energy industry in Southeast Alaska, home to nearly 16,000 Alaska Natives in a dozen rural and two urban communities within the United States' largest national forest: The Tongass. Although the potential for biomass energy has long been touted, realization of the opportunity has been catalyzed only recently as part of a model of sustainable development being enacted by the region's largest Native corporation, Sealaska, and its subsidiary, Haa Aaní ("Our Land") L.L.C. In this paper we examine the unique nature of Alaska Native corporations and their potential as engines of sustainable development, particularly through Sealaska's emerging cultural model of sustainability in relation to social-ecological well-being. We assess the economic, ecological, and atmospheric emissions parameters of a wood-biomass energy industry at various scales according to the "triple bottom line" of sustainability. Finally, we address what additional policy and support measures may be necessary to nurture the successful transition to biomass energy at a sustainable scale to support rural indigenous communities, a more resilient, renewable energy system, and a lower carbon footprint.

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Section: Global Climate Change Mitigation and Tongass National Forestmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Sustainable Biomass Energy and Indigenous Cultural Models of Well-being in an Alaska Forest Ecosystem

Sikka¹,

Thornton²,

Worl³

2013

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“…Both forest sequestration of CO 2 and active use of wood have had considerable analyses (Perez-Garcia, Lippke, Comnick, & Manriquez, 2005b;Fargione, Hill, Tilman, Polasky, & Hawthorne, 2008;Hennigar, MacLean, & Amos-Binks, 2008;Searchinger et al, 2009;Ryan et al, 2010;Lippke et al, 2011;Malmsheimer et al, 2011;Ashton, Tyrrell, Spalding, & Gentry, 2012).…”

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Carbon, Fossil Fuel, and Biodiversity Mitigation With Wood and Forests

Oliver

Nassar

Lippke

et al. 2014

Journal of Sustainable Forestry

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“…Much of that information for North American forest resource operations and wood products production and utilization is synthesized in Lippke et al [2]. This information will be used to contrast the impact of different biomass collection and processing options to produce biomass for competing product uses.…”

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Sustainable Biofuel Contributions to Carbon Mitigation and Energy Independence

Lippke

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Venditti

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Abstract:The growing interest in US biofuels has been motivated by two primary national policy goals, (1) to reduce carbon emissions and (2) to achieve energy independence. However, the current low cost of fossil fuels is a key barrier to investments in woody biofuel production capacity. The effectiveness of wood derived biofuels must consider not only the feedstock competition with low cost fossil fuels but also the wide range of wood products uses that displace different fossil intensive products. Alternative uses of wood result in substantially different unit processes and carbon impacts over product life cycles. We developed life cycle data for new bioprocessing and feedstock collection models in OPEN ACCESS

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Life cycle impacts of forest management and wood utilization on carbon mitigation: knowns and unknowns

Cited by 229 publications

References 44 publications

Sustainable Biomass Energy and Indigenous Cultural Models of Well-being in an Alaska Forest Ecosystem

Sustainable Biomass Energy and Indigenous Cultural Models of Well-being in an Alaska Forest Ecosystem

Carbon, Fossil Fuel, and Biodiversity Mitigation With Wood and Forests

Sustainable Biofuel Contributions to Carbon Mitigation and Energy Independence

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