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EFORWOOD
AT A GLANCE
Title: Tools for Sustainability Impact Assessment of
the Forestry-Wood Chain
Instrument: Integrated Project, FP6
Total Cost: 20.608.411
EC Contribution: 12.944.060
Duration: 48 months
Start Date: 1/11/2005
Consortium: 38 partners from 21 countries
Project Coordinator: Skogforsk (The Foretry
Research Institute of Swewden) (Sweden)
Project Web Site: http://www.eforwood.com
Key Words: Sustainability, Impact Assessment,
Forestry-Wood Chain.
THE CHALLENGE
Improved sustainability and competitiveness are
identified as important achievements of the European
society. Using the forest-based sector as its study
object, EFORWOOD will develop decision support tools
to be used by policy makers, industry and other
stakeholders. The goal is to identify sustainability
impact of future changes related to the sector. The
impacts can be induced by external or internal drivers.
PROJECT OBJECTIVES
The main objective of EFORWOOD is to develop a tool
for Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) of Forestry
Wood Chains (FWCs) at various scales of geographic
area and time perspective. A FWC is determined by
economic, ecological, technical, political and social
factors, and consists of a number of interconnected
processes, from forest regeneration to the end-of-life
scenarios of a wood-based product. EFORWOOD shall
produce, as an output, a tool, which will allow analysis
of Sustainability Impacts of existing and future FWCs.
Multifunctionality of forests and sustainability impact of
changes of the whole FWC will be addressed by
analysing and selecting sustainability indicators
reflecting forest resources, forest to industry
interactions, processing and manufacturing and
industry to consumer interactions, including re-use, recycling and end of life in relation to economy, society
and environment.
METHODOLOGY
The FWC consists of a large number of different
processes, starting from forest regeneration, tending
and harvesting, followed by transporting of the wood
for converting and manufacturing in the forest industry
and its down-stream industries, ending with the
consumption and recovery of a broad range of products
EXPECTED RESULTS
The main output of EFORWOOD will be a decision
support tool for sustainability impact assessment of the
forestry-wood-chain - ToSIA. ToSIA will be available in
three versions: ToSIA-FWC describes production
PROJECT PARTNERS
The Forestry Research Institute of Sweden, SE
Alterra BV, NL
InnovaWood Limited, IE
Warsaw Agricultural University, PL
CIRAD-Fort, FR
Slovenian Forestry Institute, SI