Increasing pressures to use forest biomass: A conservation viewpoint

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 28-35

  Hesselink, Trevor P ^a  

^a Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) Wildlands League   (Canada)

Author keywords

Biomass; Carbon; Conservation; Environmental impacts; Full tree harvesting; Intensity; Policy; Sustainability; Utilization pressures

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION PROGRAMS; BIODIVERSITY; CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONSERVATION; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEMS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FORESTRY; LIFE CYCLE; NATURAL RESOURCES; PUBLIC POLICY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

BIOMASS UTILIZATION; ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES; ECOSYSTEM SUSTAINABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANS; FULL-TREE HARVESTING; INTENSITY; SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE;

BIOMASS;

BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT CONSERVATION; HARVESTING; POLICY MAKING; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CARBON; CLIMATES; CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; FIBERS; FORESTRY; FORESTS; FUELS; HARVESTING; INTENSITY; MANAGEMENT;

EID: 77949381115     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc86028-1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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