FOR400Y1 Lecture 1: FOR400Y - Lecture 1 Developing Sustainable Forest Bioenergy Production Systems
Document Summary
All management activities have to be in context of sustainability. Importance of adaptive forest management and certification systems. Metrics/drivers for climate change showing dangerous trends. Changing our lifestyle to pull trends back is fundamental to trying to change society so that footprint and net emissions is less. Mitigation technologies include, afforestation, reforestation, forest management, Lca (life-cycle assessment) reduced deforestation, harvest wood product management, use of forestry products for bioenergy. Having carbon stored in harvested wood products. Compares things with reference systems (i. e. using coal, natural gas, oil) Grow forest until some maturity, harvest, then get carbon storage. If just leave forest indefinitely, the carbon they store will be lost as they decompose. In the long term, sustainable forest management strategies aimed at maintaining or increasing forest carbon stocks, while producing a sustained yield of timber, fibre, or energy from the forest, will generate the largest sustained mitigation benefit. We"ve gotten off coal, and use wind energy a lot more.