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Forest BioEnergy Production - Management, Carbon sequestration and Adaptation (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
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Forest BioEnergy Production - Management, Carbon sequestration and Adaptation (Hardcover, 2013 ed.)
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For thousands of years, forest biomass or wood has been among the
main energy sources of humans around the world. Since the
industrial revolution, fossil fuels have replaced wood and become
the dominant source of energy. The use of fossil fuels has the
disadvantage of increasing atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse
gases (GHGs), especially carbon dioxide (CO2), with the consequent
warming of global climate and changes in precipitation. In this
context, the substitution of fossil fuels with renewable energy
sources like forest biomass is among the ways to mitigate climate
change. This book summarizes recent experiences on how to manage
forest land to produce woody biomass for energy use and what are
the potentials to mitigate climate change by substituting fossil
fuels in energy production. In this context, the book addresses how
management can affect the supply of energy biomass using
short-rotation forestry and the conventional forestry applying long
rotations. Furthermore, the book outlines the close interaction
between the ecological systems and industrial systems, which
controls the carbon cycle between the atmosphere and biosphere. In
this context, sustainable forest management is a key to understand
and control indirect carbon emissions due to the utilization of
forest biomass (e.g. from management, harvesting and logistics, and
ecosystem processes), which are often omitted in assessing the
carbon neutrality of energy systems based on forest biomass. The
focus in this book is on forests and forestry in the boreal and
temperate zones, particularly in Northern Europe, where the woody
biomass is widely used in the energy industry for producing energy.
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