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ToSIA: Tool for Sustainability Impact Assessment

Explore ToSIA, a tool for assessing sustainability impacts in the forest-based sector, integrating public opinions, political considerations, economic realities, and scientific evidence for informed decision-making. Learn how ToSIA guides users in evaluating changes and societal values. Discover its application in forestry and wood chain processes. Experience ToSIA's systematic approach to assist in decision-making, indicator selection, and impact evaluation, including Multi-Criteria Analysis and Cost-Benefit Analysis. Join the ToSIA Management and User Group for further development opportunities. Contact kaj.rosen@skogforsk.se for more information.

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ToSIA: Tool for Sustainability Impact Assessment

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  1. ToSIA - A tool for sustainability impact assessment of the forest-based sector IVA Avdelning VIII, 9 februari 2010 Kaj Rosén kaj.rosen@skogforsk.se www.eforwood.com

  2. Can science guide society towards a sustainable development?

  3. WHAT IS SUSTAINABLE AND WHAT IS NOT? • A development or a change may only be accepted as sustainable if we consider: • public opinions and values • political considerations • economical realities • scientific evidence and threshold values www.eforwood.org

  4. Decision support for SIA • Systematic approach • System boundaries and their consequences • Criteria and Indicators • Data quality • Full picture www.eforwood.org

  5. Sustainability Impact Assessment has to mirror the societal discussion on what is important

  6. Evaluation of changes • What’s important and what’s not • What’s big and what’s small • With ToSIA the user can decide - but should be able to motivate his/her opinions/decisions in a dialogue with other stakeholders • Be humble to what is positive and what is negative

  7. ToSIA is a tool to answer WHAT IF? - questions ? ? www.eforwood.org

  8. Forestry -wood Chains Forest Resources Management Processes Forest to Industry Interactions Processes Indicators Processing and manufacturing Processes Industry to Consumer Interactions Processes

  9. HOW TO WORK WITH ToSIA • Setting goal and scope • Choosing system boundaries Study design • Creating chaintopology • Specifyingprocesses and products FWC structure • Initialising material flow calculations • Calculating material flows Material flows • Selectingindicators • Calculatingindicatorvalues for processes • and FWCs Indicator calculation • Comparingsustainabilityimpacts of FWCs • Evaluatingresults FWC Comparison www.eforwood.org

  10. An example from the forest to a chair

  11. Three indicators along the FWC Road transport intensity Total productioncost Employment Forestry Forest to industry Industry Industry to consumers € person years ton-km

  12. Analysis of the results: Multi-Criteria Analysis (MCA) compares apples and oranges Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) converts apples and oranges into € Policy analysis translates ToSIA results into a policy context www.eforwood.org

  13. Analysis with MCA: Multi Criteria Analysis • Involveactors& theirpreferences/interests • Generate a rankingof alternatives incorporatingactor´spreferencesand ToSIA data www.eforwood.org

  14. Group mode Modes of MCA application Single user

  15. Withthe MCA evaluationmoduleyoucan: • Choose and select indicators • Weigh indicators against each other • Rate sustainability impact • Rank the results

  16. EFORWOOD ends in the beginning of 2010 EFORWOOD deliverables e.g. ToSIA will be further developed through a controlled network TMUG is open to EFORWOOD partners as well as to third parties ToSIA Management and User Group www.eforwood.org

  17. TMUG THANK YOU! kaj.rosen@skogforsk.se www.eforwood.com

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