Cost analysis of forest biomass supply chain logistics

Journal of Forestry

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 271-281

  Abbas, Dalia ^a   Handler, Robert ^b   Dykstra, Dennis ^c   Hartsough, Bruce ^d   Lautala, Pasi ^b  

^a TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Blue Ox Forestry ^*  (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost assessment; Harvesting; Modeling; Pulpwood; Supply chain; Survey; Transportation

Indexed keywords

COST ASSESSMENT; FOREST INVENTORY AND ANALYSIS; FOREST PRODUCTS; PULPWOOD; SHELTERWOOD CUT; SOURCES OF INFORMATIONS; TRANSPORTATION ANALYSIS; USDA FOREST SERVICE;

BIOMASS; COST ACCOUNTING; COSTS; HARVESTING; MODELS; SKIDDING; SUPPLY CHAINS; SURVEYING; SURVEYS; TIMBER; TRANSPORTATION; TRUCK TRANSPORTATION; TRUCKS;

FORESTRY;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FOREST INVENTORY; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; LOGISTICS; MODELING; TIMBER HARVESTING; TRANSPORTATION;

MICHIGAN; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84881221602     PISSN: 00221201     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5849/jof.12-054     Document Type: Article

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