Bewertung: Buchbeschreibung Shaker Verlag Jan , Zustand: Neu. Neuware - In recent years, the development of China's wood pulp industry over the past two decades has been remarkable in order to meet increasing demand for wood pulp in domestic market.
With the aim to ensuring adequate pulpwood supply for the expanding industry, a total area of 1. Integration of wood pulp mills with fast-growing plantation establishment has become an important development pattern for the Chinese pulp industry, which leads to the formation of the 'forest-to-pulp' supply chain which is the focus of this study.
Meanwhile, there are increasing concerns from different stakeholders, either concerning the potential impacts to the environmental by managing large-scale eucalyptus plantations, or focusing on the sustainable development of these newly-built pulp mill projects. This study aims to carry out an integrated sustainability evaluation for China's forest-to-pulp supply, encompassing environmental, social and economic perspectives.
It aims to get a clear overview of the status quo of the forest-to-pulp supply chain in China, to evaluate the associated environmental impacts, social benefits and economic profitability associated with the examined system, and to set up a sustainability benchmark for the plantation operations and wood pulp industry in China. The research boundary has been defined by adopting a 'cradle-to-gate' perspective, covering the life cycle phases of raw material extraction from fast-growing eucalyptus plantations, through well-organized logistics of transportation, to the final product of manufactured Bleached Eucalyptus Kraft Pulp BEKP ready at the mill gate.
For better illustration, the examined supply chain was divided into two sub-systems for data collection, including forest sub-system and pulp mill sub-system. A context of case study concept was adopted for this research. A leading plantation operator with more than 40, hectares eucalyptus plantations in Guangxi was taken as case study for the forest sub-system. A representative BEKP pulp producer in Hunan province with an annual production capacity of , air-dried tons ADT of wood pulp was taken as case study for the pulp mill sub-system.
