To harvest or not to harvest? Forest management as a trade-off between bioenergy production and carbon sink

• Published in: Journal of cleaner production Vol. 268; p. 122219
• Main Authors: Lin, Boqiang, Ge, Jiamin
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier Ltd 20.09.2020
• Subjects: air; Bioenergy; carbon; carbon dioxide; Carbon sinks; Ecuador; empirical research; energy; energy conservation; environmental protection; financial economics; Forest management; forests; fuels; income; Iran; issues and policy; Trade-off; wood; Iran; Ecuador; Carbon sinks; Forest management; Bioenergy; Trade-off

Due to global warming and energy conservation, the importance of forests should be seriously considered. Forest could not only produce bioenergy by harvest to substitute fossil fuels, but also sequestrate carbon dioxide from the air without harvest. How to measure the trade-off between forests as bi...