This manual is a practical aid to drawing up management plans for forest improvement and simple forest management plans. It contains relevant Catalan technical terms and concepts, with definitions in Catalan. The topics covered include general forestry, silviculture, mensuration, planning, tending...

Urban public gardens are key elements in raising life quality in cities. In these human influenced environments plants suffer abiotic stress from different factors, thus their development is rather more conditioned than in natural habitats. Long time conservation of urban forests sometimes is at...

The geoambiental and landscape description of the beach-dune system of Cala Borró, (Cap Ras), placed in the town of Colera (Alt Empordà), is carried out. The dunar system, developed with orientation and N-S, links three beach pockets following the topographic slopes of the torrential basins. We...

It is a well documented issue that coastal dune systems of Spain have been systematically fixed and stabilised through afforestation initiatives developed both from public or private landowners mainly in the first half of the XX century. Most beaches of Minorca have a pine forest (Pinus halepensis...

A translation of a book originally published in English. The book concentrates on financial aspects of forest management.