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...

In the actual context, in which there is a trend of increasing the weight of the vehicles used to transport materials, checking the deformations of road systems as a response to dynamic and static loadings is necessary to better manage the road infrastructure. The goal of the study was to evaluate...

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 ...

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...

Skidders are common in forest operations in many parts of the world, and in many regions they are used in steep terrain harvesting. An observational modelling study was carried out to estimate the time consumption and productivity of winching operations deployed in four types of silvicultural...

The forest management plan developed from 10 to 10 years for any area covered with forest vegetation, regardless of the nature of the property, also provide for the elaboration of the landscaping maps, frequently made at scale 1: 20000. In some situations (afforested meadow with a consistency...

Forest ecosystems are a prime example of the heated debates that have arisen around how forests should be managed, and what services and benefits they should deliver. The European transitions in governance to and from communist regimes have had significant impacts on forests and their management....

These proceedings contain papers on topics about forest ecosystem management; forest engineering; wildlife management; and geomatics, informatics, modelling and statistics.

The present paper intends for the first time to frame common beech from the Southern Carpathians in the smart forest's category, a new concept similar with Climate-Smart Agriculture. This framing is based on data from forest management plans characteristic to higher than 40-year-old common beech...

We investigated the effects of forest management on the carbon (C) dynamics in Romanian forest soils, using two model simulations: CBM-CFS3 and Yasso15. Default parametrization of the models and harmonized litterfall simulated by CBM provided satisfactory results when compared to observed data from ...