Climate change worsening due to global warming and progressive abandonment in rural areas mean that wildfires are increasing in extent and severity terms, and are one of the major disturbances in the Mediterranean Basin. To mitigate these disturbances, preventive management tools need to be used....
Author(s)
Fajardo-Cantos, Á.; Peña, E.; Heras, J. de las; Plaza-Álvarez, P. A.; González-Romero, J.; Lucas-Borja, M. E.; Moya, D.
Publication
Science of the Total Environment, 2023, 855,
Climate change exerts an increasingly strong influence on Swiss forest ecosystems. Changes in site conditions and the increased risk of disturbances (droughts, windthrow, storms) have a considerable negative impact on the silvicultural potential of forests. However, these effects can be mitigated...
Author(s)
Dumollard, G.; Thomas, M.; Rosset, C.; Cioldi, F.; Pauli, B.
Publisher
Schweizerischer Forstverein
Publication
Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen, 2023, 174, 2, pp 92-99
Climate change and disturbance events pose a major challenge to the management of mountain forests. In the con-text of a close-to-nature forest management, increasing management intensity (INC strategy) could reduce susceptibility to disturbance, but little is known about the trade-offs with...
Author(s)
Thrippleton, T.; Temperli, C.; Krumm, F.; Mey, R.; Zell, J.; Stroheker, S.; Gossner, M. M.; Bebi, P.; Thürig, E.; Schweier, J.
Publisher
Schweizerischer Forstverein
Publication
Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Forstwesen, 2023, 174, 2, pp 85-91
The whole natural complex, the system of using natural renewable natural resources depends on the state of the forestry sector of the national economy. Over the years of land reform, the area of the forest fund of Kazakhstan has more than doubled, as a result of which the search for ways to develop...
Subjects
forestry; forests; trends; enterprises; forest management
Author(s)
Abayeva, K. T.; Toktassynova, F. A.; Igembaeva, A. K.; Serikbayeva, A. T.; Rakhimzhanova, G. M.
The aim of this report is to examine the potential contribution of agroforestry to net zero objectives in the United Kingdom over the next 40-50 years, with a focus on 2050. The report comprises six main sections. The first section provides the over-arching context for this study. The second...
Author(s)
Burgess, P. J.; Graves, A.
Publication
The Potential Contribution of Agroforestry to Net Zero Objectives [updated Nov 2022], 2022, pp iii + 48 pp.
23 - 29 June 2023 - Stockholm
Deforestation is one of the largest contributing factors to global climate change, and a huge emphasis has been placed on the importance of...