Impact assessment (WP7)
Integrated economic, environmental and social impacts along the whole value chain
Integrated economic, environmental and social impacts along the whole value chain
Improved efficiency in forest management will result in an overall improvement of the environmental and socio-economic performance of the full value chain.
Work package leader:
Diana Tuomasjukka, EFI
diana.tuomasjukka(@)efi.in
Objectives
WP7 will quantify and illustrate how TECH4EFFECT technologies and procedures developed in WP2, WP3 and WP4 affect the environmental and socio-economic performance of the whole value chain. Overall and accumulated impacts will be extrapolated to the European scale to contrast the achieved efficiency gains with the goals of 20% reduced production costs, 15% reductions in fuel consumptions, less environmental impacts (soil damage) and 2% increased forest (yield) productivity.
Expected results
The method utilized to quantify these impacts is ToSIA – Tool for Sustainability Impact Assessment; more info under http://tosia.efi.int.