EFORWOOD – Sustainability Impact Assessment of the Forestry-Wood Chain
Project leader
Prokofieva, Irina (irina.prokofieva(at)ctfc.es)
Schedule
01.11.2005 – 31.10.2009
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Co-ordinator
Forestry Research Institute of Sweden (Skogforsk), Sweden
Objectives
The objective of EFORWOOD is to develop a quantitative decision support tool for Sustainability Impact Assessment of the European Forestry-Wood Chain (FWC) and subsets thereof (e.g. regional), covering forestry, industrial manufacturing, consumption and recycling. The objective will be achieved by:
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defining economic, environmental and social sustainability indicators,
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developing a tool for Sustainability Impact Assessment by integrating a set of models,
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supplying the tool with real data, aggregated as needed and appropriate,
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testing the tool in a stepwise procedure allowing adjustments to be made according to the experiences gained,
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applying the tool to assess the sustainability of the present European FWC (and subsets of thereof) as well as the impacts of potential major changes based on scenarios,
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making the adapted versions of the tool available to stakeholder groupings (industrial, political and others).
Partners
38 partner organisations