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Spontaneous ash tree reforestation in the Central Pyrenees: a future local energy source?

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: With the agricultural economy of the Central Pyrenees in steady decline, natural forest stands are colonising abandoned agricultural meadows. The present study seeks to define the economic conditions for a new fuel-wood local economy based on these extensions of the forest cover. Farmer/forest owners are capable of exploiting this resource, involving logging, hauling and cutting the wood to size, to meet their own heating needs. In this way, owners could thus recuperate a maximum unit value estimated at 11.2 to 22.3 € per stere (1 cubic metre), or an average value of 16.8 € per stere after deduction of all costs. An economy based on wood energy, using wood from spontaneously generated forest growth on private land, is therefore possible. A development policy for such an activity could be envisaged with appropriate initiatives to stimulate the owners of land where spontaneous ash reforestation has occurred to harvest this potential resource.

Source: Revue de géographie alpine

DOI: 10.4000/rga.1585

Authors: Bernard Elyakime, Laurent Larrieu, Alain Cabanettes, Laurent Burnel

Institutions: Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Dynamiques et écologie des paysages agriforestiers, Centre National de la Propriété Forestière

Language: English

Topic: Forest Biomass Utilization and Management

Subfield: Mechanics of Materials

Field: Engineering

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Life on land, Affordable and clean energy, Climate action, Responsible consumption and production, Decent work and economic growth, No poverty

Open Access status: diamond

OpenAlex ID: W1989110524

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Cites: 7

Cited by: 1

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