Reporting harvested wood products in national greenhouse gas inventories: Implications for Ireland

Biomass and Bioenergy

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 105-114

  Green, Carly ^a   Avitabile, Valerio ^a   Farrell, Edward P ^a   Byrne, Kenneth A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Atmospheric flow approach; Carbon accounting; Harvested wood products; Monte Carlo analysis; Production approach; Stock change approach

Indexed keywords

GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HARVESTING; MARKETING; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE;

ATMOSPHERIC-FLOW APPROACH; CARBON ACCOUNTING; HARVESTED WOOD PRODUCTS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; STOCK-CHANGE APPROACH;

WOOD PRODUCTS;

GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HARVESTING; MARKETING; REGULATORY COMPLIANCE; WOOD PRODUCTS;

EMISSION CONTROL; GREENHOUSE GAS; HARVESTING; INVENTORY;

HARVESTING; WOOD PRODUCTS;

EURASIA; EUROPE; IRELAND; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 31144441923     PISSN: 09619534     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biombioe.2005.11.001     Document Type: Article

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