Session 3: Assessing sustainability in forestry, agriculture and related bioenergy systems
The needs of a growing world population and changing societal demands have increased the pressures on forests and agricultural systems. Intensified forest management practices and increasing agricultural productivity have raised concerns about the maintenance of biodiversity and the future provisioning of various ecosystem services. At the same time, climate change itself is impacting on agricultural and forestry systems, and adaptation strategies may be in conflict with other emerging policies aimed at strengthening a bio-based economy. In the past, land productivity was the key parameter to assess sustainability. New societal and policy needs have broadened the context and now include a multitude of stakeholder interests regarding economic, social, environmental, and cultural aspects in various interacting time scales and in different spatial contexts. These developments have triggered the need to enhance our understanding of the sustainable use of land resources and related production chains and to design sustainability assessment schemes to evaluate the likely impacts of policy and management scenarios.
The session was chaired by Ottar Michelsen, Senior Adviser, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. The presentations at the session were the following:
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Name |
Affiliation |
Presentation title |
Presentation (15 min.) / Speed talk (1 min.) |
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Hannes Böttcher |
Senior Researcher at Energy and Climate Division, Öko-Institut, Germany |
Assessing direct and indirect environmental impacts of alternative EU bioenergy policy scenarios |
Presentation |
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Tommi Suominen |
Software Development Team Leader at European Forest Institute, Finland |
An application of ToSIA for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of biomass utilisation in alternative forest-based value chains |
Presentation |
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Jakob Hildebrandt |
PhD-Candidate at Department of Bioenergy, The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Germany |
Overriding goals for achieving multi-stakeholder benefits in a wood-based Bioeconomy region: Insights from the development of a MCDA tool |
Presentation |
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Leire Iriarte |
Research Fellow at the International Institute for Sustainability Analysis and Strategy (IINAS), Spain |
Approach to evaluating sustainability of lignocellulosic biomass delivery pathways within the S2BIOM project |
Presentation |
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Martha Demertzi |
Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Environment and Planning, University of Aviero, Portugal |
Carbon footprint of the cork oak sector |
Presentation |
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Qianyu Li |
Researcher at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland |
Evaluating land use impacts on bioproductive land depletion in life cycle assessment |
Presentation |
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Heather Davidson |
Researcher at theTechnological Institute for Forest Cellulose, Construction-wood and Furniture (FCBA), France |
Presentation |
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Alexandra Langner |
Researcher at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna, Austria |
Value-based trade-offs between ecosystem services from European mountain forests |
Presentation |
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Jakob Hildebrandt |
PhD-Candidate at Department of Bioenergy, The Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), Germany |
Developing a LCA approach to assess wood-based production system in a bioeconomy region in Germany |
Speed talk |
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Salvatore Martire |
Researcher at the European Forest Institute, Finland |
A widely usable framework to calculate indicators for sustainability assessment of bio-based supply chains |
Speed talk |
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Oludunsin Arodudu |
Researcher at the Leibniz Centre for Agricultural Landscape Research (ZALF), Germany |
Sustainability assessment of agro-bioenergy land use: a combined life cycle-participatory approach |
Speed talk |
