Accounting for land-use changes in environmental impact assessments of wood products: A review

Kanellos Charis Anaïs, Riviere Miguel, Brunelle Thierry, Shanafelt David W.. 2024. Accounting for land-use changes in environmental impact assessments of wood products: A review. Forests, 15 (12), n.spéc. Forest Dynamics under Climate and Land Use Change:2242, 22 p.

https://doi.org/10.3390/f15122242

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Résumé : Environmental policy and the expansion of the bioeconomy sector has led to increased demand for wood and wood products, pressuring forests. In order to meet additional demand, foresters must either intensify forest management practices or alter forest area. One of the more observable shifts in forest management comes in the form of changes in land use or land cover. Yet despite the many short- and long-term consequences of land-use change, the environmental impacts of it are less explored in forestry than in agriculture. In this paper, we conduct a literature review over the period between 1993 and 2022 to better understand how the notions of land-use and land-cover change are included in environmental impact assessments related to the production of wood and wood products. Specifically, we identified five categories of impacts studied and found a surprising dichotomy in terminology between land-use/land-cover change and changes in forest management practices. We present general trends in the methods and indicators used and discuss potential methodological and conceptual challenges inherent to this literature. Our results are particularly important in light of the growing popularity of land-use and land-cover data in research, as we highlight how they have been integrated into existing environmental impact assessment methods and how we can improve them going into the future.

Mots-clés Agrovoc : impact sur l'environnement, utilisation des terres, déboisement, évaluation de l'impact, aménagement forestier, production forestière, séquestration du carbone, bois, production du bois, politique de l'environnement, changement climatique, forêt tropicale, bibliométrie, gestion des ressources naturelles, aménagement du territoire