Cultural, social, and economical conditions characterizing the beginning of the third millennium require a critical revision of silviculture and a new forest strategy, which takes into account that forest is a complex biological system, essential to make the present liveable and the future possible...

Forest management has evolved from a typically productive approach, which evaluates silvicultural techniques and planning methods according to wood production levels, to the current approach where sustainability becomes the aim and social and environmental variables are fundamental. Various...

In the evolution of European forestry thought, there are characters whose contribution is still little known. One of these is Cesare Beccaria, an Italian philosopher and economist who lived in the second half of the 18th century. This article summarises some aspects of Beccaria's thought on...

The rapidity of the global change and the complexity of the phenomena involved make any forecast of future environmental conditions rather uncertain: the only thing we can be sure of is that the future will be different from the present and that most ecosystems will be living in conditions never...

For a long time, forest practice has been characterized by a linear paradigm: forest cultivation and management have been centred on the volume/regeneration relationship, considered respectively source of income and basis for sustained production. According to this paradigm, forest management has...

The damages caused by the drought of 2018, which affected large areas of forest, has caused concern among forest experts. Subsequent considerations included the question of risks and uncertainties associated with climate change. Various publications and research papers on this topic concerning the...

Silviculture has been significantly revised over the past few decades. This has led to a change in the forest-man relationship, undermining the traditional concept which considers the forest only as trees. This paper examines different silvicultural theories focusing on their philosophical and...

A brief historical overview describes the birth of Forestry schools and how this was triggered by the concern for conserving forests, the need to stop forest destruction and the opportunity to regulate forest utilization so as to attain sustained yield. This entailed the development of ...

Deadwood plays a key role in the functioning and productivity of forest ecosystem and it is an important feature for the conservation of the biodiversity. In the past land-use and forest management have dramatically reduced the amount of deadwood in the European forests and only in the last decades ...

Since silviculture was first introduced, the "economic value" of forest stands has been determined by timber production. Despite the fact that, in the last few decades, the concept of forest ecosystem "multi-functionality" has emerged - a concept that recognizes the multiple services and benefits...