Czech Academy of Agricultural Sciences (CAAS) is a professional and social institution whose basic mission is to influence the scientific level of research activities and education in its field of competence, to take care of its continuous development and to effectively popularize the acquired...

These proceedings contain papers on topics about forest ecology and conservation, forest management, biodiversity and genetic conservation, forest policy and economics, forest remote sensing and gis / precision forestry, forest protection, forest soil and silviculture, social forestry, nature...

Over the past 40 years, China's forestry has undergone rapid change. Forest coverage and stocking have improved significantly, and forestry output value has increased tremendously. Moreover, China has established a modern industrial system for the manufacturing and sale of forest products driven by ...

The forest sector development in Uruguay has been based on planted forest areas, mainly with eucalyptus and pine. The Parliament passed the Forestry Law in 1987 and since then the sector has been growing rapidly. The objective of the study is to analyse the contribution of the forest sector in the...

The Faustmann formulation (or FF) has been widely adopted in determining the optimal rotation and the concomitant net present worth of timber production. Nonetheless, the FF is not a profit function, and there has not established such a function, along with its dual cost and production functions,...

In timber production, sustainability means maintaining resources by balancing timber harvest with timber growth. In forest management, sustainability also refers to a constant and steady flow of income. The aim of this study is to resolve the contradiction, whether a sustainable/continuous flow of...

These proceedings contain 86 articles covering a wide range of topics grouped in ten sections: (1) forest biogeocenology; (2) forest policy, economics and management; (3) modern problems and prospects of forest inventory and state forest inventory (dedicated to the 210th anniversary of the first...

Aiming at the gap between supply and demand in forestry carbon sequestration trading, an evolutionary game model of forest farmers, emission-controlled enterprises (ECEs), and the government is established, where the purchasing behavior of ECEs is divided into offsetting carbon emission and...

Latin America is a crucial source of global forest values-whether the domestic and export values of commercial production or the global non-commercial values of forest services like carbon sequestration and biodiversity or the less-measured and generally more local contributions like watersheds and ...

These proceedings contain 93 articles that cover different scientific areas, including (1) forestry, forest management, and multipurpose use of forests; (2) genetics, post-genomic technologies, biotechnology, breeding, and seed production; (3) biodiversity of forest ecosystems, conservation, and...