Accounting for forest carbon pool dynamics in product carbon footprints: Challenges and opportunities

Environmental Impact Assessment Review

Volumn 37, Issue , 2012, Pages 23-36

  Newell, Joshua P ^a   Vos, Robert O ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biogenic carbon; Forest carbon; Land use change; Land use modification; Product carbon footprint protocols; Wood life cycle inventories

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC DISTURBANCE; CARBON NEUTRALS; CARBON POOL; COATED FREESHEET; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; FOREST LAND; FOREST TYPE; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGINS; GHG EMISSION; LAND-USE CHANGE; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); LIFE CYCLE INVENTORIES; LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY; PRODUCT CARBON FOOTPRINTS; PRODUCT SYSTEMS; TEMPORAL DIMENSIONS; WOOD FIBER;

CARBON; CARBON FOOTPRINT; CONSUMER PRODUCTS; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND USE; LIFE CYCLE; SUPPLY CHAINS; TIMBER;

FORESTRY;

DISTURBANCE; ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT; EMISSION INVENTORY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FORESTRY; GLOBALIZATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; HARVESTING; INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE; LAND USE CHANGE; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; TIMBER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

CARBON; FORESTS; GREENHOUSE GASES; LAND USE; LIFE CYCLE; SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84864746269     PISSN: 01959255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eiar.2012.03.005     Document Type: Article

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