1 / 24

Assessing Sustainability Impacts of Forest Management in Northern Europe: A Scottish Perspective

This seminar discusses the objectives of the Northern ToSIA project, which aims to improve sustainable forest resource management in the Northern Periphery. It explores the sustainability challenges in the region and how the ToSIA tool is used to assess sustainability impacts. The project aims to test and develop the ToSIA tool, disseminate it, and provide instructions for its use in the Northern Periphery.

vsteppe
Download Presentation

Assessing Sustainability Impacts of Forest Management in Northern Europe: A Scottish Perspective

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Marcus Lindner Northern ToSIA – Sustainable forest resource management in the Northern Periphery Assessing the Sustainability Impacts of Forest Management in Northern Europe – a Scottish PerspectiveSeminar, Aviemore, 20th May 2010

  2. Outline • Northern ToSIA project objectives • Sustainability challenges in the Northern Periphery • Assessing sustainability impacts with ToSIA

  3. Northern ToSIA objective Long-term goal: Improving sustainable forest resource use in the Northern Periphery Project objectives: • To test and develop the ToSIA tool in regional and company case applications • To develop the tool applicability and necessary instructions for use in the Northern Periphery • To disseminate the tool and user experiences for the whole Northern Periphery area

  4. Sustainability Challenges in the Northern Periphery Environmentally friendly resource management Securing social wellbeing in the region Economically viable resource utilization Gällö in Jämtland, Sweden

  5. People: the social dimension • Recreational use increases in importance • Forest sector offers employment • Cultural values, ...

  6. Value added: • Forest-based sector is important for the regional economy Gällö in Jämtland, Sweden Foto: FVA Baden-Württemberg, Department of Forest Utilisation

  7. Forest-Wood Chains (FWC): from tree regeneration to end-of life of wood products

  8. Real world ToSIA data client

  9. Simple Forest Wood ChainExample

  10. Regional case study

  11. Every FWC process affects sustainability CO2

  12. ToSIA links sustainability indicators to FWC processes

  13. Sustainability Indicators Economic Environmental Social • Gross value added • Production costs • Resource use • Total production • Labour productivity • Investment,Research & • Development • Trade Balance • Enterprise structure • Energy generation and use • GHG emissions & carbon stocks • Transport distance and freight • Forest biodiversity • Forest resources • Water and Air Pollution • Generation of waste • Forest Damage • Soil condition • Transport • Water use • Employment • Wages and salaries • Occupational safety and health • Education and Training • Innovation • Consumer behaviour& attitude • Corporate social responsibility • Provision of public forest services • Wages and salaries • Quality of employment

  14. Overall sustainability is quantified by multiplying relative sustainability impacts with the amount of material handled by a process How to calculate FWC sustainability? CO2 CO2 CO2 CO2 CO2

  15. ToSIA is a tool to answer WHAT IF? - questions. • Whatif: • Bioenergy use triples? • Natura 2000 policy strengthens? • Paper industry shifts production away from Europe? ? ? www.eforwood.org

  16. CBA

  17. MCA

  18. From EFORWOOD to Northern ToSIA

  19. Thank you for your attention! Contact: Marcus.Lindner@efi.int

More Related