Italian Journal of Forest and Mountain Environments最新文献

{"title":"CONSUMPTION OF WOOD BIOMASS FOR ENERGY IN ITALY: A STRATEGIC ROLE BASED ON WEAK KNOWLEDGE","authors":"A. Pra, D. Pettenella","doi":"10.4129/IFM.2016.1.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4129/IFM.2016.1.03","url":null,"abstract":"Given the growing role of wood biomass as a strategic resource in the European and national renewable energy policies, the paper provides two new estimations of the internal consumption and supply levels, aiming at discussing the real role of this resource in the national energy mix and the implications of this market in terms of forest policies. The first estimation focuses on household consumption and expenditure based on the ISTAT “Survey on consumption by families”, and the second analyzes how the wood biomass supply is structured and organized; this second estimation has been carried out with an expert panel consultation based on a Delphi-based approach. These two estimations are then compared and discussed with reference to the data and information provided by official sources and other publically-available studies and surveys conducted in recent years. The results provide evidence that wood biomass is the first source of renewable energy in Italy and that official data only partially quantify the consumption levels in the residential sector and domestic supply rates. The paper highlights the need for a new approach in data collection on this fast-growing market; these data are essential for a more effective implementation of the renewable energy policy and other relevant forest-related policies such as those on climate and wood mobilization.","PeriodicalId":173092,"journal":{"name":"Italian Journal of Forest and Mountain Environments","volume":"2676 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125830726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The scientific and cultural laicization of the forest-human relationship: the Italian Theory","authors":"O. Ciancio","doi":"10.4129/ifm.2015.5.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4129/ifm.2015.5.01","url":null,"abstract":"The Author analyzes a theory developed in forestry in Italy in the nineteen eighties: the Italian Theory . This theory is based on the culture of complexity, on the systemic approach and on a new scientific paradigm based on the principles of self-organization , non equilibrium and non-linearity . It advocates autonomy of silviculture from the discipline originated in Germany in the XVIII century. The philosophical, scientific and cultural aspects of the relationships between theory and practice, and the deductive and inductive approach in scientific research are examined. Biocentrism and anthropocentrism and the theoretical implications of evolutionary biology are discussed together with the meaning of Art of scientific research . Finally, the Author describes the founding principles of the Italian Theory, i.e. silvosistemica and the need for acknowledging and respecting the rights of the forest .","PeriodicalId":173092,"journal":{"name":"Italian Journal of Forest and Mountain Environments","volume":"29 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-02-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131830444","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Adaptive forest governance to face land use change impacts in Italy: a review","authors":"M. Vizzarri, L. Sallustio, R. Tognetti, E. Paganini, V. Garfì, D. L. M. Veca, M. Munafò, G. Santopuoli, M. Marchetti","doi":"10.4129/ifm.2015.4.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4129/ifm.2015.4.01","url":null,"abstract":"Land use change is one of the most important drivers for the reduction of ecosystem resilience, and the loss ofbiodiversity and services provision. This is a peculiar challenge, especially in Mediterranean mountain environments,where abandonment and forest transition phenomena increasingly threaten the forest capacity to provide benefits for local communities. Under these conditions, forest governance is called to balance the landuse change impacts and the health and stability of forest ecosystems, in order to ensure the long-term sustainabilityof such marginal environments. This paper aims at deeper understanding the impacts of land use change on forest ecosystem on mountain environments in Italy. At first, a downscaled review on the conceptsof land use change and ecosystem services provision is carried out. Then, according to the review results, therelationships between adaptive capacity of forest management and planning, and land use change is deeply described. Finally, future-oriented strategies of adaptive governance to face land use change are proposed. Inthe context of land use change, adaptive governance can improve forest resilience through filling the researchgaps between the national and the global contexts, adopting monitoring and assessment tools to simulate external changes and disturbances, and effectively implement consistent policy measures and strategies at localscale.","PeriodicalId":173092,"journal":{"name":"Italian Journal of Forest and Mountain Environments","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132336051","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Carbon stock in wood products: implications for carbon accounting at national and local scale in Italy","authors":"A. Perone, S. D. Benedetto, M. Vizzarri, B. Lasserre","doi":"10.4129/ifm.2015.4.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4129/ifm.2015.4.02","url":null,"abstract":"The international climate change adaptation strategies provide the opportunity to account for carbon sinks in forests through the Kyoto Protocol. Globally, forests and wood products are considered important carbon sinks. Harvested Wood Products (HWPs) are receiving growing attention, considering their potentialities to be included in national Greenhouse Gas Inventories with practical and economic implications for both carbon accounting and timber market. In Italy, understanding the contribution of HWPs to the total carbon budget may have a positive role to further improve forest management and planning approaches, as well as the timber production (i.e. wood-energy chain), specifically oriented to the climate change mitigation and ecosystem adaptation. This work aims to deeper assess the main barriers and drivers for the HWPs implementation within the carbon accounting framework in Italy. After a preliminary survey on how climate adaptation policies are currently implemented at global and national scale, this work specifically addresses the most important opportunities to include the HWPs in carbon accounting for the forestry sector at landscape scales. Finally, this work mainly outlines the following challenges for including HWPs in forest management and planning processes at local scale: (i) improving the assessment of forest carbon budget in different pools through using proper simulation tools, and environmental impact analysis; (ii) further developing robust policies and regulations that make the carbon accounting approach more explicit and economically relevant; and (iii) implementing adaptive approaches to effectively consider climate change mitigation strategies in decision-making processes at landscape scale.","PeriodicalId":173092,"journal":{"name":"Italian Journal of Forest and Mountain Environments","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132589151","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Forest ecosystems functionality evaluation by multiscale and multitemporal analysis of ecological network","authors":"D. Tonti, M. Vizzarri, M. Ottaviano","doi":"10.4129/ifm.2015.4.04","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4129/ifm.2015.4.04","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study was to model the relationships between forest spatial structure and potential forest vulnerability, resilience and resistance (FVRR) in Molise (Italy) on the basis of a multitemporal and multiresolution raster dataset. The FVRR index of forest ecosystems was quantified and mapped by two different approaches, such as a ‘species-specific’ and a ‘species-unspecific’ approach, modelling the proximity to a potential ecological optimum by fuzzy functions. The temporal trends between the summing up of index values of each model are similar. The ‘species-unspecific’ approach seems to be not scale dependent when applied for monitoring temporal trends, since trends of the index of low and high resolution datasets are nearly the same.","PeriodicalId":173092,"journal":{"name":"Italian Journal of Forest and Mountain Environments","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115343566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Recent trends in forest cover changes: only positive implications?","authors":"L. Sallustio, A. Simpatico, M. Munafò, C. Giancola, R. Tognetti, M. Vizzarri, M. Marchetti","doi":"10.4129/IFM.2015.4.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4129/IFM.2015.4.03","url":null,"abstract":"During the last 50 years, the Italian landscape has been subjected by different land use and land cover changes (LULCC). The IUTI inventory (Inventario dell’Uso delle Terre d’Italia) is proved to be acheaper, fast and statistically accurate method for LULCC monitoring. The aim of this study is to summarize the LULCC trends at national level, in Italy, focusing on natural reforestation processes at macroregions level. Some of the LULCC effects on ecosystem services provisioning (carbon storage and sequestration,and biodiversity conservation) have been also analysed. Although on one side the forest re-growth represents a positive opportunity in terms of mitigation strategies due to the enhancement of potential carbon sinks,on the other side, the abandonment of agro-pastoral practices, has several potential negative impacts from an environmental, economic and social perspective.","PeriodicalId":173092,"journal":{"name":"Italian Journal of Forest and Mountain Environments","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-12-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130999590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"HOW MUCH MONEY GROWS ON TREES: CASE OF ASIAN REGION","authors":"Bilal Mehmood, Abida Ramzan","doi":"10.4129/ifm.2015.3.01","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4129/ifm.2015.3.01","url":null,"abstract":"Growth Empirics use novel factors of growth in latest research. We used such a factor in forestry. We investigated the causal relationship between forestry and economic growth for a sample of selected Asian countries. We used data on forest products and other relevant variables for the time period 2000-2012 using homogeneous slope panel data model system GMM estimator. Results show the presence of such causal relationship between forestry and economic growth. Existence of causality is also checked using Panel Granger causality between concerned variables.","PeriodicalId":173092,"journal":{"name":"Italian Journal of Forest and Mountain Environments","volume":"36 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130045299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wild ungulates and economic assessment of forest damage: analysis of a case study in Tuscany and potential planning strategies","authors":"R. Fratini, E. Marone, R. Polidori, F. Riccioli, L. Zammarchi","doi":"10.4129/ifm.2015.3.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4129/ifm.2015.3.02","url":null,"abstract":"The paper shows the results of the economic assessment of damage to forest stands caused by wild ungulates in a case study in Tuscany. The work is based on previous analyses of policies and prevention costs related to wild animal activities. It is important to underline all the factors involved in order to help the public stakeholders during decision planning strategies. From this point of view this work can be extended to the analysis of financial aspects and economic impacts related to different planning strategies.","PeriodicalId":173092,"journal":{"name":"Italian Journal of Forest and Mountain Environments","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129722465","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Deer impact on Turkey oak and chestnut coppice production in Tuscany. Experimental survey and a methodological approach","authors":"S. Fiorentini, D. Travaglini, S. Nocentini","doi":"10.4129/ifm.2015.1.02","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4129/ifm.2015.1.02","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this paper is to define a quick method for estimating the loss of wood production at rotation age caused by red deer and roe deer in chestnut coppices and in Turkey oak coppices. Three study areas were chosen for the study, with presence of different or overlapping red deer and roe deer populations. A total of 224 plots were selected in coppiced areas 2 and 5 years after felling. General yield tables were used for estimating coppice growth with and without browsing. Results showed a sensible difference between areas with red deer and areas with only roe deer. Chestnut coppices showed a better reaction to deer browsing compared to Turkey oak coppices. In Turkey oak coppices impacted by red deer browsing after felling, we estimated a sensible loss of production at traditional rotation age (18 years), and an average of 8 years was needed to attain the same level of production as in non-impacted coppices. With only roe deer, an average of 2 years were needed after rotation age to reach expected production. In chestnut coppices, at traditional rotation age (8 years) a loss of wood production was estimated in less than half of all the examined coppices. In these cases 2 more years were estimated to reach the expected production at rotation age. With red deer bark stripping was frequently recorded on both young and older shoots in chestnut coppices. We concluded that in areas with an overabundance of deer such as the one we examined here, there is the need for a change not only in deer management but also in forest management. A shared management strategy of both coppices and deer populations at the different space and time scales is necessary otherwise coppicing will continue to be a factor of strong attraction for deer impact, with serious risks for the conservation of coppice regeneration and productivity. The quick assessment method here presented can be a useful tool for supporting discussion and shared decisions among the different stakeholders involved in natural resource planning and management.","PeriodicalId":173092,"journal":{"name":"Italian Journal of Forest and Mountain Environments","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121228410","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Estimated harvest indexes related to hunting wild boar in two forest environments in Tuscany","authors":"A. Gaggioli, G. Visani, L. Orlandi","doi":"10.4129/ifm.2015.2.03","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4129/ifm.2015.2.03","url":null,"abstract":"The aim of this study was to analyze wild boar population dynamics using indexes related tohunting in two areas of Tuscany located in the Provinces of Pistoia and Grosseto. Ratio analysisshowed different trends in the two areas. The data on the structure of the population confirmedthe observed trends. We used a method for controlling the age of the wild boars reported byhunters, which allowed us to estimate the error of this evaluation. Harvest indexes, if detectedand corrected according to standardized methods, proved to be a good approach for wild boarmonitoring for management purposes","PeriodicalId":173092,"journal":{"name":"Italian Journal of Forest and Mountain Environments","volume":"70 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129564306","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}