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

Revue de Géographie Alpine

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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