55 new papers on sustainability impact assessment have been published in EFI’s Technical Report series. The reports are deliverables and results from the EU FP6 Integrated Project EFORWOOD – Tools for Sustainability Impact Assessment of the Forestry-Wood Chain. EFI was one of the 38 partners in the project, which ran from 2005 to 2010.
EFORWOOD’s main aim was to develop a tool for sustainability impact assessment of forestry-wood chains (FWC) at various scales of geographic area and time perspectives. A FWC consists of a number of interconnected processes – from forest regeneration to the end-of-life recycling of wood-based products – which are determined by economic, ecological, technical, political and social factors.
The computerised decision-support tool (ToSIA) which was developed by EFORWOOD analyses the sustainability impacts of existing and future FWCs, helping decision-makers in politics, government departments and industry to make sound and reliable decisions on forestry and forest product manufacturing and consumption.
