Residential use of firewood in Northern Sweden and its influence on forest biomass resources
Firewood is society’s oldest source of household energy and is still extensively used around the world. However, little is known about firewood usage in technologically advanced countries with high energy consumption. Some key issues include quantities of firewood currently used and future trends, a...
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ftslunivuppsala:oai:pub.epsilon.slu.se:8233 2023-05-15T17:44:25+02:00 Residential use of firewood in Northern Sweden and its influence on forest biomass resources Lindroos, Ola 2011 application/pdf https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/8233/ https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/8233/1/Lindroos_O_2011_2011-07-05.pdf https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2010.08.054 eng eng https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/8233/1/Lindroos_O_2011_2011-07-05.pdf Lindroos, Ola (2011). Residential use of firewood in Northern Sweden and its influence on forest biomass resources. Biomass & bioenergy. 35 :1 , 385-390 [Research article] Forest Science Research article PeerReviewed info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2011 ftslunivuppsala https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2010.08.054 2022-01-09T19:12:12Z Firewood is society’s oldest source of household energy and is still extensively used around the world. However, little is known about firewood usage in technologically advanced countries with high energy consumption. Some key issues include quantities of firewood currently used and future trends, as well as the influence of this usage on available biomass resources. This study addresses those issues through a postal questionnaire to 1500 of the firewood using households in a region in Northern Sweden. One-third of households produced 11-20 solid m3 of firewood per year. Three-fourths expected their production to be unchanged or increase during the coming five years. A large proportion of young producers indicated long-term continuation of firewood usage. Half (53%) of the firewood producing households owned forest and thereby had free access to wood. Produced firewood volume corresponded to 4-8% of the region’s roundwood volume harvested for industrial purposes. The use of firewood is suggested to influence decisions of private forest owners about management and harvest of forest biomass, and, thus, affect supply for bioenergy and other uses. With further incorporation of firewood usage into forest biomass management regimes, larger biomass quantities are likely to be available for industrial uses. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU): Epsilon Open Archive Biomass and Bioenergy 35 1 385 390 |
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Firewood is society’s oldest source of household energy and is still extensively used around the world. However, little is known about firewood usage in technologically advanced countries with high energy consumption. Some key issues include quantities of firewood currently used and future trends, as well as the influence of this usage on available biomass resources. This study addresses those issues through a postal questionnaire to 1500 of the firewood using households in a region in Northern Sweden. One-third of households produced 11-20 solid m3 of firewood per year. Three-fourths expected their production to be unchanged or increase during the coming five years. A large proportion of young producers indicated long-term continuation of firewood usage. Half (53%) of the firewood producing households owned forest and thereby had free access to wood. Produced firewood volume corresponded to 4-8% of the region’s roundwood volume harvested for industrial purposes. The use of firewood is suggested to influence decisions of private forest owners about management and harvest of forest biomass, and, thus, affect supply for bioenergy and other uses. With further incorporation of firewood usage into forest biomass management regimes, larger biomass quantities are likely to be available for industrial uses. |
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Residential use of firewood in Northern Sweden and its influence on forest biomass resources |
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Residential use of firewood in Northern Sweden and its influence on forest biomass resources |
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Residential use of firewood in Northern Sweden and its influence on forest biomass resources |
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https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/8233/1/Lindroos_O_2011_2011-07-05.pdf Lindroos, Ola (2011). Residential use of firewood in Northern Sweden and its influence on forest biomass resources. Biomass & bioenergy. 35 :1 , 385-390 [Research article] |
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