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- Title
Forestry for Carbon Sequestration.
- Authors
Xiang Zheng; Yifeng Liu; Pengfei Tian
- Abstract
Current forest management plans prioritize economic profitability with little consideration of the forest's ecological effects. Thus, managers fail to utilize forests for carbon sequestration, the process of taking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Incorporating social, economic, and ecological sectors, the model that we present serves as a novel approach to balance various factors involved in forestry. It re-optimizes pre-existing forest management plans and enhances efficiency from a global perspective. A sophisticated but limited model in real-life is the Faustmann model [Brazee 2002]. It calculates the present value of the income stream for forest rotation and infers the optimal time to cut the forest but is completely based on the economical portion of our world. We instead design a Comprehensive Index of Forest (CIF) to measure the value of a forest, consisting of three indices: CSI, EI, and BDI. The CSI takes the total carbon dioxide sequestrated by a forest and its products into account; the EI values the economic worth of its products; and the BDI measures the influence of the harvest on biodiversity. We use the Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to determine weights of the indices, separately for developed countries and for developing countries, to measure the comprehensive quality of the forest.
- Subjects
CARBON sequestration; ATMOSPHERIC carbon dioxide; CARBON sequestration in forests; ANALYTIC hierarchy process; DEVELOPING countries; FOREST management
- Publication
UMAP Journal, 2022, Vol 43, Issue 3, p245
- ISSN
0197-3622
- Publication type
Article