Carbon Dioxide Mitigation in Forestry and Wood Industry

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXIX

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2. Forest Resources: Past, Present and Future Role of Managed and Unmanaged Forests in the Global Carbon Balance

   1. Historic Role of Forests in the Global Carbon Cycle

      • R. A. Houghton

      Pages 1-24

   2. The History and Future Dynamics of Carbon Sequestration in Finland’s Forest Sector

      • Timo Karjalainen, Ari Pussinen, Seppo Kellomäki, Raisa Mäkipää

      Pages 25-42

   3. Dynamics of Forest Resources of the Former Soviet Union with Respect to the Carbon Budget

      • Anatoly Shvidenko, Sten Nilsson

      Pages 43-62

   4. Past and Possible Future Carbon Dynamics of Canada’s Boreal Forest Ecosystems

      • David T. Price, Michael J. Apps, Werner A. Kurz

      Pages 63-88

   5. Assessment of Humid Tropical Forest Distribution and Conditions Using Remote Sensing at a Global Scale

      • Philippe Mayaux, Frédéric Achard, Jean-Paul Malingreau

      Pages 89-109

3. Implementation of Carbon Dioxide Mitigation Measures in Forestry and Wood Industry on a National and International Scale

   1. Analysis and Potential for Mitigation Options

      • Franzjosef Schafhausen

      Pages 111-123

   2. Carbon Mitigation Potential of German Forestry Considering Competing Forms of Land Use

      • Sigrid Strich

      Pages 125-135

   3. Present and Future Options of Forests and Forestry for CO2-Mitigation in Germany

      • Klaus Böswald

      Pages 137-151

   4. Afforestation in Europe: Experiences and Future Possibilities

      • Norbert Weber

      Pages 153-165

   5. Implementing Carbon Mitigation Measures in the Forestry Sector — a Review

      • Marcus Lindner

      Pages 167-184

4. Quantitative and Qualitative Evaluation of Carbon Dioxide Mitigation through Forestry and Wood Industry

   1. World Forests: The Area for Afforestation and their Potential for Fossil Carbon Sequestration and Substitution

      • Wolfgang Schopfhauser

      Pages 185-203

   2. Substitution of Wood from Plantation Forestry for Wood from Deforestation: Modelling the Effects on Carbon Storage

      • Bernhard Schlamadinger, Gregg Marland

      Pages 205-217

   3. Life Cycle Assessment of Wood Products

      • Klaus Richter

      Pages 219-248

   4. The Face Foundation

      • Hans Verweij

      Pages 249-256

   5. Climate Stabilization and Conservation of Biodiversity — two Goals — one Way?

      • Josef H. Reichholf

      Pages 257-267

5. Forestry Mitigation Options under Future Climate Change and Socioeconomic Pressures

   1. Future Development of the Carbon Cycle: the Role of the Biota/Forests within the IPCC Stabilization Scenarios

      • G. H. Kohlmaier, Ch. Häger, F. Ift, G. Würth, F. Joos, M. Bruno

      Pages 269-291

   2. The Frankfurt Biosphere Model (FBM): Regional Validation Using German Forest Yield Tables and Inventory Data and Extrapolation to a 2×CO2 Climate

      • Gudrun Würth, Christof Häger, Gundolf H. Kohlmaier

      Pages 293-321

   3. The Direct Effect of CO2 Enrichment on the Growth of Trees and Forests

      • Bernard Saugier, Marianne Mousseau

      Pages 323-339

   4. Ecosystem Properties and the Continued Operation of the Terrestrial Carbon Sink

      • Melvin G. R. Cannell

      Pages 341-351

The lntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has recently summarized the state ofthe art in research on climate change (Climate Change 1995). The most up to date research findings have been divided into three volumes: • the Science ofClimate Change (working group I), • the Impacts, Adaption and Mitigation of Climate Change (working group II), and • the Economic and Social Dimensions ofClimate Change (working group III) There is a general consensus that a serious change in climate can only be avoided if the future emissions of greenhouse gases are reduced considerably from the business as usual projection and if at the same time the natural sinks for greenhouse gases, in particular that of CO , are maintained at the present level or 2 preferrably increased. Forests, forestry and forestry industry are important parts of the global carbon cycle and therefore they are also part of the mitigation potentials in at least a threefold way: 1. During the time period between 1980 and 1989 there was a net emission of CO from changes in tropical land use (mostly tropical deforestation) of 2 1. 6 +/- 1 GtC/a, but at the same time it was estimated that the forests in the northem hemisphere have taken up 0. 5 +/- 0. 5 GtC/a and additionally other terrestrial sinks (including tropical forests where no clearing took place) have been a carbon sink ofthe order of l. 3 +/- l.

• Climate Change
• Deforestation
• Plantation
• Scale
• biodiversity
• biosphere
• development
• ecosystem
• ecosystems
• emissions
• forest
• forestry sector
• life-cycle assessment (LCA)
• production
• sustainable development
• air pollution and air quality

• Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

  Gundolf H. Kohlmaier

• Chair of Silviculture and Forest Management, University of Munich, Freising, Germany

  Michael Weber

• WoodsHole Research Center, Woodshole, USA

  Richard A. Houghton

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