Revue de Géographie Alpine | |
Spontaneous ash tree reforestation in the Central Pyrenees: a future local energy source? | |
关键词: agriculture; forest; mountain; public policy; spontaneous reforestation; wood energy; | |
DOI : 10.4000/rga.1585 | |
来源: DOAJ |
【 摘 要 】
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.
【 授权许可】
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