These proceedings contain 71 articles dicussing biomass energy forest, forestry business, forest fire and climate change, agroforestry and forest plantation, ecosystem services, biodiversity, non-timber forest product, un-even aged silviculture, and forest degradation and rehabilitation.

The special issue on the promise and performance of the Forest Rights Act (EPW, 24 June 2017) failed to explore the extent to which people's livelihoods and incomes improved in the districts where the act has been implemented. Providing forest management and ownership rights to communities is not...

The objective of this study was to examine existing knowledge on forest products development and to promote sustainable forest management in Ethiopia. Furthermore, the paper aimed to assess the development and status of Ethiopia's forest products industry in terms of resource base, manufacturing...

Forest management science is the leading discipline of forestry, which plays an important role in the construction of forestry in China. It is a discipline about the basic theory, techniques and arts of how to organize silvicultural and management practices. As a discipline, forest management was...

Forest ecosystems are important providers of ecosystem functions and services belonging to four categories: supporting, provisioning, regulating and cultural ecosystem services. Forest management, generally focused on timber production, has consequences on the ability of the system to keep...

Understanding stand structure and growth relationships and how they are influenced by silvicultural treatments can help us optimize forest management regimes. With two large long-term silvicultural research experiments in loblolly pine plantations, we examined the effects of planting density,...

Introduction: Sustainable forest management focuses on securing environmental services while maintaining aboveground biomass (AGB) accumulation. Objective: To evaluate the AGB along of a Chronosequence of temperate forest and to examine the role of forest management for timber production on...

Global trends in the demand for forest products, decreasing total area of actively managed forests, and pressures to increase profit margins suggest that forest management intensity will continue to increase in the future. These trends have typically led to shorter rotation lengths and increased...

To address the question of whether stands are managed sustainably in the Novi Pazar region (Southwest Serbia), this study compares the quantity of standing wood biomass in the Debeljak-Medenovac unit at the beginning and end of a ten-year study period. The ecological and energy value of wood...

Intensified forestry can be seen as a solution to climate change mitigation and securing energy supply, increasing the production of forest bioenergy feedstock as a substitution for fossil fuels. However, it may come with detrimental impacts on forest biodiversity, especially related to older...