In a wider context of attempting to minimise forestry related occupational hazards, this paper aimed to evaluate the ability of FSC forest management certification to contribute to identifying, describing, and reducing health and safety issues in forest management in Romania. By extracting and...

Over the last 25 years the ownership structure of the forest in Romania have been changed dramatically due to the implementation of a politically driven restitution process implemented in three steps, the final one promoting restitutio in integrum principle relative to the ownership structure...

Carbon storage and sequestration is one of the most important services provided by forest ecosystems, the most powerful tools for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Its value is not always captured and appreciated at a fair level, with people taking for granted these benefits provided by the ...

This proceedings contains over 100 papers presented at the Biennial International Symposium on Forest and Sustainable Development held in Brasov, Romania, during 27-28 October 2006. Topics covered include stand regeneration, ecology, management, silviculture, silvicultural systems including...

Forestland privatization and transition to a market economy triggered important changes in the Romanian forest sector, imposing challenges for forest management structures. Voluntary forest management certification has been considered a possible solution; therefore, the certified forest area has...

The management of High Conservation Value Forests (HCVFs) is one of FSC principles for sustainable forest management. However, some difficulties were found when forest management unit considered as possible HCVF is in non-state ownership. As the implication of the identified HCFV area, the...

Japan is a forested country: Two third of the land area is covered by dense forest. Within her 25 million ha of forestland, 7.6 million ha or 31% is owned by the state. The state forest in Japan has about 140 years of history. Forestry as a science and practice was imported from Europe, and the...

This paper analyses how forestry standardization process interrelates with the national and sectoral economic characteristics and the evolution of sustainable forest management implementation in communist and post-communist Romania. The study used the database of Romanian Standardization...

Professor Petre Antonescu was born in Ploiești. He completed his professional education at Herăstrău-Bucharest, Nancy and Vienna. He obtained the PhD degree at the University of Cluj His professional activity was rich and highly valuable. In the production area he designed forest management plans...