RT Journal Article
T1 Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of industrial pine roundwood production in Brazilian forests
A1 Salles Ferro, Fabiane
A1 Lopes Silva, Diogo Aparecido
A1 Hideyoshi Icimoto, Felipe
A1 Rocco Lahr, Antonio
A1 González García, Sara
K1 Brazil
K1 Environmental profile
K1 LCA
K1 Forest system
K1 Pinus oocarpa
AB Pine (Pinus oocarpa) wood has great economic importance in Brazil. Pine stands represent the second largestreforested area in the country due to their industrial interest. Combining the relevance of industrial pine stands inthe country and corresponding environmental concerns, this current study aims to identify and quantify the environmentalimpacts derived from industrial pine roundwood production in Brazil. The environmental study was developedconsidering the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) methodology according to ISO14040 framework. The studyconvers the life cycle of pine roundwood production from cradle-to-forest gate perspective and considers the currentpractices in the country. The production system was divided in five main stages: Soil preparation, seedlingsplantation, forest management, forest harvesting and infrastructure establishment. The environmental profile wasestimated considering characterization factors from the ReCiPe method, in terms of twelve impact categories. Accordingto the results, forest harvesting stagewas identified as the environmental hotspot being themain responsibleof contributions to nine impact categories under assessment with contributing ratios ranging from 21%(e.g., freshwater eutrophication) to 76% (e.g., photochemical oxidants formation). The high amount of fossil fuel requiredby heavy machinery used in the activities involved in this stage is behind this result. Soil preparation stagereported also an outstanding contribution in categories such as freshwater eutrophication (37%) and toxicity relatedcategories (≈35%). The rationale behind these contributions is associated with the use of chemical fertilizers,mostlysuperphosphate. The identification of the environmental hotspots in forest biomass production can assist theBrazilian forest practitioners to improve the environmental profile bymeans of the optimization of forest practices.
PB Elsevier
SN 0048-9697
YR 2018
FD 2018-05-22
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10347/17459
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10347/17459
LA eng
NO Salles Ferro et al., 2018. Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of industrial pine roundwood production in Brazilian forests. Science of the Total Environment 640-641, 599-608
NO This is the accepted manuscript of the following article: Salles Ferro et al., 2018. Environmental Life Cycle Assessment of industrial pine roundwood production in Brazilian forests. Science of the Total Environment 640-641, 599-608
NO This research has been partially supported by Personnel ImprovementCoordination of High Level (CAPES- process number 99999.006274/2015-03), by a project granted by Xunta de Galicia (project ref.ED431F2016/001) and by the STAR-ProBio project funded by theEuropean Union's Horizon 2020 Program research and innovation programmeunder grant agreement No. 727740. Dr. S.G-G. would like to expressher gratitude to the Spanish Ministry of Economy andCompetitiveness for financial support (Grant reference RYC-2014-14984). Dr. S.G-G. belongs to the Galician Competitive Research GroupGRC 2013-032 as well as to CRETUS (AGRUP2015/02), co-funded byXunta de Galicia and FEDER (EU)
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