Spontaneous ash tree reforestation in the Central Pyrenees: a future local energy source?
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 owner...
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| author | Bernard Elyakime Laurent Larrieu Alain Cabanettes Laurent Burnel |
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6719ae9e50fb45539a45bd5e4502375a2025-01-10T15:56:00ZengInstitut de Géographie AlpineRevue de Géographie Alpine0035-11211760-74262012-02-0199310.4000/rga.1585Spontaneous ash tree reforestation in the Central Pyrenees: a future local energy source?Bernard ElyakimeLaurent LarrieuAlain CabanettesLaurent BurnelWith 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.https://journals.openedition.org/rga/1585mountainforestagriculturespontaneous reforestationpublic policywood energy |
| spellingShingle | Bernard Elyakime Laurent Larrieu Alain Cabanettes Laurent Burnel Spontaneous ash tree reforestation in the Central Pyrenees: a future local energy source? Revue de Géographie Alpine mountain forest agriculture spontaneous reforestation public policy wood energy |
| title | Spontaneous ash tree reforestation in the Central Pyrenees: a future local energy source? |
| title_full | Spontaneous ash tree reforestation in the Central Pyrenees: a future local energy source? |
| title_fullStr | Spontaneous ash tree reforestation in the Central Pyrenees: a future local energy source? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Spontaneous ash tree reforestation in the Central Pyrenees: a future local energy source? |
| title_short | Spontaneous ash tree reforestation in the Central Pyrenees: a future local energy source? |
| title_sort | spontaneous ash tree reforestation in the central pyrenees a future local energy source |
| topic | mountain forest agriculture spontaneous reforestation public policy wood energy |
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