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Dr. Dalia Abbas
College of Arts and Science, American University, Washington, DC 20016, USA

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Communication
Published: 18 May 2021 in Sustainability
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Forests are the dominant land cover in Nordic–Baltic countries, and forestry, the management of forests for improved ecosystem-service (ES) delivery, is an important contributor to sustainability. Forests and forestry support multiple United Nations Sustainability Goals (UN SDGs) and a number of EU policies, and can address conflicting environmental goals. Forests provide multiple ecosystem services and natural solutions, including wood and fibre production, food, clear and clean water and air, animal and plant habitats, soil formation, aesthetics, and cultural and social services. Carbon sequestered by growing trees is a key factor in the envisaged transition from a fossil-based to a biobased economy. Here, we highlight the possibilities of forest-based solutions to mitigate current and emerging societal challenges. We discuss forestry effects on forest ecosystems, focusing on the optimisation of ES delivery and the fulfilment of UN SDGs while counteracting unwanted effects. In particular, we highlight the trilemma of (i) increasing wood production to substitute raw fossil materials, (ii) increasing forest carbon storage capacity, and (iii) improving forest biodiversity and other ES delivery.

ACS Style

Lars Högbom; Dalia Abbas; Kęstutis Armolaitis; Endijs Baders; Martyn Futter; Aris Jansons; Kalev Jõgiste; Andis Lazdins; Diana Lukminė; Mika Mustonen; Knut Øistad; Anneli Poska; Pasi Rautio; Johan Svensson; Floor Vodde; Iveta Varnagirytė-Kabašinskienė; Jan Weslien; Lars Wilhelmsson; Daiga Zute. Trilemma of Nordic–Baltic Forestry—How to Implement UN Sustainable Development Goals. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5643 .

AMA Style

Lars Högbom, Dalia Abbas, Kęstutis Armolaitis, Endijs Baders, Martyn Futter, Aris Jansons, Kalev Jõgiste, Andis Lazdins, Diana Lukminė, Mika Mustonen, Knut Øistad, Anneli Poska, Pasi Rautio, Johan Svensson, Floor Vodde, Iveta Varnagirytė-Kabašinskienė, Jan Weslien, Lars Wilhelmsson, Daiga Zute. Trilemma of Nordic–Baltic Forestry—How to Implement UN Sustainable Development Goals. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (10):5643.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Lars Högbom; Dalia Abbas; Kęstutis Armolaitis; Endijs Baders; Martyn Futter; Aris Jansons; Kalev Jõgiste; Andis Lazdins; Diana Lukminė; Mika Mustonen; Knut Øistad; Anneli Poska; Pasi Rautio; Johan Svensson; Floor Vodde; Iveta Varnagirytė-Kabašinskienė; Jan Weslien; Lars Wilhelmsson; Daiga Zute. 2021. "Trilemma of Nordic–Baltic Forestry—How to Implement UN Sustainable Development Goals." Sustainability 13, no. 10: 5643.

Review
Published: 10 July 2018 in Forests
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Secondary transportation of raw and comminuted forest products is a major component in forest harvesting operations in terms of economics, public perception, and safety. Consequently, there is a substantial amount of literature on this topic. The existing literature has dealt with many of the technical aspects of transportation with a majority of them focusing on improving supply chain issues; however, there are only few specific to secondary transportation issues in general. This annotated bibliography will help practitioners, researchers, and stakeholders gain a better understanding of the existing literature from 2000 to 2015. To this end, we began by classifying the selected literature into six themes: cost, roads and routes, trucking, efficiency and safety, other modes of transportation, and supply chain and optimization. Woody biomass for bioenergy production was the most researched forest product with respect to transportation. About one-third of the articles were presented in the context of supply chain modeling and optimization. More than half of the studies originated from Europe while the United States had the most publications for any given country. Most articles (16) were published in 2013. Biomass and Bioenergy published the highest number of articles (29) during the timeframe.

ACS Style

Anil Koirala; Anil Raj Kizha; Cornelis F. De Hoop; Brian E. Roth; Han-Sup Han; Patrick Hiesl; Dalia Abbas; Shuva Gautam; Srijana Baral; Steve Bick; KamalaKanta Sahoo. Annotated Bibliography of the Global Literature on the Secondary Transportation of Raw and Comminuted Forest Products (2000–2015). Forests 2018, 9, 415 .

AMA Style

Anil Koirala, Anil Raj Kizha, Cornelis F. De Hoop, Brian E. Roth, Han-Sup Han, Patrick Hiesl, Dalia Abbas, Shuva Gautam, Srijana Baral, Steve Bick, KamalaKanta Sahoo. Annotated Bibliography of the Global Literature on the Secondary Transportation of Raw and Comminuted Forest Products (2000–2015). Forests. 2018; 9 (7):415.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Anil Koirala; Anil Raj Kizha; Cornelis F. De Hoop; Brian E. Roth; Han-Sup Han; Patrick Hiesl; Dalia Abbas; Shuva Gautam; Srijana Baral; Steve Bick; KamalaKanta Sahoo. 2018. "Annotated Bibliography of the Global Literature on the Secondary Transportation of Raw and Comminuted Forest Products (2000–2015)." Forests 9, no. 7: 415.

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Published: 12 June 2018
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Secondary transportation of raw and comminuted forest products is a major component in forest harvesting operations in terms of economics, public perception, and safety. Consequently, there is a substantial amount of literature on this topic. The existing literature has dealt with many of the technical aspects of transportation with a majority of them focusing on improving supply chain issues; However, there are only few specific to secondary transportation issues in general. This annotated bibliography will help practitioners, researchers, and stakeholders gain a better understanding of the existing literature from 2000 to 2015. To this end, we began by classifying the selected literature into six themes: cost, roads and routes, trucking, efficiency & safety, other modes of transportation, and supply chain & optimization. Woody biomass for bioenergy production was the most researched forest product with respect to transportation. About one-third of the articles were presented in the context of supply chain modeling and optimization. More than half of the studies originated from Europe while the United States had the most publications for any given country. The most articles (16) were published in 2013. Biomass and Bioenergy published the highest number of articles (29) during the timeframe.

ACS Style

Anil Koirala; Anil Raj Kizha; Cornelis F. De Hoop; Brian Edward Roth; Han-Sup Han; Patrick Heisl; Dalia Abbas; Shuva Gautam; Srijana Baral; Steve Bick; KamalaKanta Sahoo. Annotated Bibliography of the Global Literature on Secondary Transportation of Raw and Comminuted Forest Products (2000 – 2015). 2018, 1 .

AMA Style

Anil Koirala, Anil Raj Kizha, Cornelis F. De Hoop, Brian Edward Roth, Han-Sup Han, Patrick Heisl, Dalia Abbas, Shuva Gautam, Srijana Baral, Steve Bick, KamalaKanta Sahoo. Annotated Bibliography of the Global Literature on Secondary Transportation of Raw and Comminuted Forest Products (2000 – 2015). . 2018; ():1.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Anil Koirala; Anil Raj Kizha; Cornelis F. De Hoop; Brian Edward Roth; Han-Sup Han; Patrick Heisl; Dalia Abbas; Shuva Gautam; Srijana Baral; Steve Bick; KamalaKanta Sahoo. 2018. "Annotated Bibliography of the Global Literature on Secondary Transportation of Raw and Comminuted Forest Products (2000 – 2015)." , no. : 1.

Review article
Published: 18 April 2018 in Science of The Total Environment
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The effective implementation of sustainable forest management depends largely on carrying out forest operations in a sustainable manner. Climate change, as well as the increasing demand for forest products, requires a re-thinking of forest operations in terms of sustainability. In this context, it is important to understand the major driving factors for the future development of forest operations that promote economic, environmental and social well-being. The main objective of this paper is to identify important issues concerning forest operations and to propose a new paradigm towards sustainability in a changing climate, work and environmental conditions. Previously developed concepts of forest operations are reviewed, and a newly developed concept – Sustainable Forest Operations (SFO), is presented. Five key performance areas to ensure the sustainability of forest operations include: (i) environment; (ii) ergonomics; (iii) economics; (iv) quality optimization of products and production; and (v) people and society. Practical field examples are presented to demonstrate how these five interconnected principles are relevant to achieving sustainability, namely profit and wood quality maximization, ecological benefits, climate change mitigation, carbon sequestration, and forest workers' health and safety. The new concept of SFO provides integrated perspectives and approaches to effectively address ongoing and foreseeable challenges the global forest communities face, while balancing forest operations performance across economic, environmental and social sustainability. In this new concept, we emphasize the role of wood as a renewable and environmentally friendly material, and forest workers' safety and utilization efficiency and waste management as additional key elements of sustainability.

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Enrico Marchi; Woodam Chung; Rien Visser; Dalia Abbas; Tomas Nordfjell; Piotr S. Mederski; Andrew McEwan; Michal Brink; Andrea Laschi. Sustainable Forest Operations (SFO): A new paradigm in a changing world and climate. Science of The Total Environment 2018, 634, 1385 -1397.

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Enrico Marchi, Woodam Chung, Rien Visser, Dalia Abbas, Tomas Nordfjell, Piotr S. Mederski, Andrew McEwan, Michal Brink, Andrea Laschi. Sustainable Forest Operations (SFO): A new paradigm in a changing world and climate. Science of The Total Environment. 2018; 634 ():1385-1397.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Enrico Marchi; Woodam Chung; Rien Visser; Dalia Abbas; Tomas Nordfjell; Piotr S. Mederski; Andrew McEwan; Michal Brink; Andrea Laschi. 2018. "Sustainable Forest Operations (SFO): A new paradigm in a changing world and climate." Science of The Total Environment 634, no. : 1385-1397.

Articles
Published: 22 June 2017 in Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research
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This paper offers a forest operations perspective in environmentally sensitive areas in Europe and the United States. The objective is to help inform key sustainability knowledge gaps in forest operations to reduce impacts on the environment and the equipment operators in these increasingly targeted and difficult to operate in areas. Under existing guidelines and best management practices, the protection of ecosystem services linked to soil, water, wildlife and biodiversity have rightly received the highest considerations. However, the connection between protecting these ecological values, safe operational practices and technological advancements is rarely well articulated. One means to address the operational and technological gap is the selection of equipment and tailor the work conditions to terrain type, forest features and management objectives. To that effect, this paper discusses the environmental, planning, equipment selection and operator considerations and proposes possible solutions and guidelines to contain both the operators’ safety and environmental risks in forest operations.

ACS Style

Dalia Abbas; Fulvio Di Fulvio; Raffaele Spinelli. European and United States perspectives on forest operations in environmentally sensitive areas. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research 2017, 33, 188 -201.

AMA Style

Dalia Abbas, Fulvio Di Fulvio, Raffaele Spinelli. European and United States perspectives on forest operations in environmentally sensitive areas. Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research. 2017; 33 (2):188-201.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Dalia Abbas; Fulvio Di Fulvio; Raffaele Spinelli. 2017. "European and United States perspectives on forest operations in environmentally sensitive areas." Scandinavian Journal of Forest Research 33, no. 2: 188-201.