Availability of biomass for energy purposes in Nordic and Baltic countries: Land areas and biomass amounts

Baltic Forestry

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 375-390

  Rytter, Lars ^a   Andreassen, Kjell ^b   Bergh, Johan ^c   Ekö, Per Magnus ^d   Grönholm, Tiia ^e   Kilpeläinen, Antti ^e   Lazdiņa, Dagnija ^f   Muiste, Peeter ^g   Nord Larsen, Thomas ^h  

^a THE FORESTRY RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF SWEDEN   (Sweden)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF BIOECONOMY RESEARCH   (Norway)

^c LINNAEUS UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^d SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^e FINNISH ENVIRONMENT INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^f LATVIAN STATE FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE SILAVA   (Latvia)

^g ESTONIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Estonia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Annual forest growth; Available land areas for forest; Biomass availability; Climate change effects; Energy use; Forest fuels; Forestry regulations; Growing stock; Harvest potential of forest fuels; Nordic and Baltic countries

Indexed keywords

EID: 84996602521     PISSN: 13921355     EISSN: 20299230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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