Introduction: This research aimed at assessing the wood products markets between 2015-2019 in Romania, by conducting an empirical study on the evolution of the number of companies, turnover and number of employees for the fields of activity "Silviculture and other forestry activities" (NACE code...

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...

Life cycle inventory (LCI) is the basis for calculating the environmental impacts of different products. The overall guidelines for data collection and other related aspects are standardized in ISO 14040 and 14044 standards. The importance of such studies is increasing due to the sustainability...

This bulletin consists of 11 papers covering topics on forestry, wood industry, and agricultural food engineering.

Using a partial market equilibrium framework, this study evaluated the US regional timber and wood products market impacts of a projected national level expansion in wood biomass consumption for energy. By restricting logging residue use, we focus on the impacts on timber harvests and paper...

The aim of the paper is to analyze the Romanian forest sector trade balance using the value of main imported and exported wood-based products. Also, an overview of the production, import and export of roundwood, sawnwood, secondary processed and paper industry products is presented. Two types of...

In forestry, thinning operations result in the extraction of young trees with small dimensions. The evaluation of the potential end use of these small-diameter logs (currently mainly used as poles or fence posts) for added-value products such as structural timber is of considerable economic and...

High risk-adjusted returns, low correlation with financial asset classes and inflation hedging are investment characteristics that make forests a desirable investment opportunity. To examine returns on forestry investments (from 2011 to 2020), we focused solely on 48 forest companies (across the...

Food security issues, particularly forest resources, have gained increasing worldwide attention over the past few years. Although studies have discussed various food security contributions, few have addressed the connection between community livelihood with food security, particularly in social...

The purpose of this study is to examine the content of forest science required in university education based on an analysis of the content of the examination for the professional engineer (forest disciplines), a highly specialized qualification. The target of the analysis was the contents of the...