Assessing environmental costs and impacts of forestry activities: A multi-method approach to environmental accounting

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 271, Issue , 2014, Pages 10-20

  Buonocore, Elvira ^a   Häyhä, Tiina ^a   Paletto, Alessandro ^b   Franzese, Pier Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DELLA NUTRIZIONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Environmental accounting; Forestry; Life cycle assessment; Province of Trento; Timber; Wood chips

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; GREENHOUSE GASES; LANDFORMS; LIFE CYCLE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WOOD PRODUCTS;

ENERGY RETURN ON INVESTMENTS; ENVIRONMENTAL ACCOUNTINGS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; ENVIRONMENTALLY SOUND MANAGEMENT; GREENHOUSE GAS MITIGATION; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT (LCA); PROVINCE OF TRENTO; WOOD CHIP;

TIMBER;

AGROFORESTRY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EMERGY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; FORESTRY PRODUCTION; FOSSIL FUEL; FUTURE PROSPECT; GREENHOUSE GAS; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; TIMBER;

BIOMASS; CARBON DIOXIDE; FORESTRY; GREENHOUSE GASES; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; POLLUTION CONTROL; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT; WOOD;

ITALY; TRENTINO-ALTO ADIGE; TRENTO;

EID: 84887613869     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2013.02.008     Document Type: Article

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