Forest Science

ISBN-13: 9789819928453 / Angielski / Twarda / 2023

Opis

This book highlights the sustainability aspects of products and processes in forest science. The forest products sector supplies raw materials to several industrial sectors worldwide. These products can be classified as timber or non-timber products. Wood products are those that originate from the woody fraction and can include pulp, charcoal, firewood, and others. The non-timber products, on the other hand, have the products extracted from the different parts of the tree, such as bark, leaves, fruits, resins, oils, tannins, or even products extracted from non-woody biomass, such as palm heart or carnauba, among others. There are new studies and new products developed from forests worldwide each day. However, studies that evaluate the sustainability of these products and the processes related to their production are not so common. It is essential to highlight the sustainability aspects of these activities and the products obtained from them; such that steps can be taken to make the processes eco-friendly.Allied to ecological sustainability studies that evaluate the technical and economic feasibility of such activities arise. With this book, the authors through the approach of other products and processes of forest science, present the practical vision of aligning production with sustainability in an economically viable way. The book analyses different products and processes, ranging from technological production of engineered wood products to handcrafted resins with a high commercial appeal. With the expertise of different authors, who are researchers in various specific areas of forest sciences, this book helps expand research and presents new insights, assisting industry decision-makers and researchers working in the areas forest sciences.

Spis treści

Charcoal production: Perspectives and challenges of charcoal production in technological, social and climate change fields

Sustainable production in the pulp and paper industry: contributions to the development of the forestry sector

Bamboo-based medium density particleboards: studying the different composition of core layer

 

Potential of wood and non-wood fibers as sustainable materials to reinforce polymeric composites

 

Polymeric biocomposites: current development, challenges and emerging trends

 

Research and development of new products from some non-timber resources: A path towards sustainability

 

The volumetric sustainability of timber-based tropical forest management

 

Changes in land use and occupation and their implications for the production chain of non-forest timber products from babassu (Attalea speciosa) in the cocais region, Maranhão state, Brazil

 

Brazilian resin method: Handmade, Sustainable and Profitable

 

Plants that heal: The sustainable exploitation of medicinal resources in Brazilian forests ​

O autorze

Elias Costa de Souza is a temporary Professor at the State University of Pará, in Brazil. He develops works related to forest product technology, mainly in the area of forest biomass energy, carbonization and technological uses and applications of products generated from the pyrolysis of forest biomass.

Dr. Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu is currently the Chief Sustainability Officer at Green Story Inc, Canada, based out of Hong Kong. He earned his PhD from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and is a renowned expert in the areas of Environmental Sustainability in Textiles & Clothing Supply Chain, Product Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Product Carbon Footprint Assessment (PCF) in various industrial sectors. He has five years of industrial experience in textile manufacturing, research and development and textile testing and over a decade's of experience in life cycle assessment (LCA), carbon and ecological footprints assessment of various consumer products. He has published more than 100 research publications, written numerous book chapters and authored/edited over 150 books in the areas of Carbon Footprint, Recycling, Environmental Assessment, Life Cycle Assessment and Environmental Sustainability.