Estimating available unused dead wood materials for heat generation in Mongolia: how much coal can unused dead wood materials substitute?
| العنوان: | Estimating available unused dead wood materials for heat generation in Mongolia: how much coal can unused dead wood materials substitute? |
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| المؤلفون: | Biligt Battuvshin, Yuta Ikeda, Hiroaki Shirasawa, Ganbaatar Chultem, Futoshi Ishiguri, Kazuhiro Aruga |
| المصدر: | Environmental Monitoring and Assessment. 194 |
| بيانات النشر: | Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022. |
| سنة النشر: | 2022 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Coal, Hot Temperature, Mongolia, General Medicine, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Wood, Pollution, Environmental Monitoring, General Environmental Science |
| الوصف: | In this study, we estimated the technoeconomic availability of three types of dead trees, namely commercially fallen, normally fallen, and standing, in Mongolian subgroups. For dead trees of three major Mongolian tree species (Siberian larch, Scotch pine, and Asian white birch), lumber, firewood, and unused material as sources of energy were quantified and operational costs (marking, felling, skidding, transporting, loading/unloading, processing, and stumpage prices) were estimated. As a result, most Mongolian subgroups were profitable and suitable for the harvest of unused materials. Moreover, unused materials of dead trees can substitute nearly 5.45 million tons of coal, although it is not sufficient to meet the 0.6 years of coal demand across Mongolia. However, in some places, unused dead wood materials can completely substitute coal for decades. Therefore, although the heat utilization of woody biomass is not suitable for Mongolia as a whole, it is feasible in specific regions where forest resources are abundant, such as some Mongolian sub-provinces. Promoting the use of dead trees can reduce the risk of damage caused by wildfires and pests, which are serious problems in Mongolia, and keep the forests healthy. Furthermore, unused materials can generate new income opportunities, and the forest land can be well prepared by removing dead trees to promote planting for sustainable forest management. Finally, dead trees can be used as a resource until transition to sustainable forests with living trees. |
| تدمد: | 1573-2959 0167-6369 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::bdfeeb2c5a9b44791de3b2ccb5b455fd https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-022-09941-6 |
| حقوق: | CLOSED |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....bdfeeb2c5a9b44791de3b2ccb5b455fd |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
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