Review article

LCA Studies in Forestry – Stagnation or Progress?

Andreja Đuka orcid.org/0000-0002-2505-713X ; Department of Forest Engineering Faculty of Forestry University of Zagreb Svetošimunska 25 Zagreb CROATIA
Dinko Vusić ; Department of Forest Engineering Faculty of Forestry University of Zagreb Svetošimunska 25 Zagreb CROATIA
Dubravko Horvat orcid.org/0000-0003-4968-0812 ; Department of Forest Engineering Faculty of Forestry University of Zagreb Svetošimunska 25 Zagreb CROATIA
Marijan Šušnjar ; Department of Forest Engineering Faculty of Forestry University of Zagreb Svetošimunska 25 Zagreb CROATIA
Zdravko Pandur orcid.org/0000-0003-4046-1349 ; Department of Forest Engineering Faculty of Forestry University of Zagreb Svetošimunska 25 Zagreb CROATIA
Ivica Papa orcid.org/0000-0003-2462-1605 ; Department of Forest Engineering Faculty of Forestry University of Zagreb Svetošimunska 25 Zagreb CROATIA

Abstract

Today, LCA is one of the leading and most used tools for environmental management, but the application of LCA in forestry is still in an initial phase. Due to a high amount of different wood products which can be produced in forestry sector, production of raw material itself is not included enough in the whole LCA process. Raw wood products and biomass used to be widely declared as »carbon neutral« and renewable, but production steps have a significant influence on the environmental impact depending on machinery used, opening forest with new roads, management type (clear-cut, even-aged management or selective cut), etc. This paper gives a review of LCA studies in forestry based on three segments:
 harvesting operations
 biomass for energy
 road construction and maintenance.

Keywords

life cycle assessment; energy consumption; GHG emission; carbon neutral; wood products

Hrčak ID:

190933

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/190933

Publication date:

1.7.2017.

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