The effective implementation of sustainable forest management depends largely on carrying
out forest operations in a sustainable manner. Climate change, as well as the increasing …

Abstract Purpose of Review Ground-based mechanized forest operations can cause severe
soil disturbances that are often long lasting and detrimental to the health of forested …

Abstract Purpose of Review One of the challenges of forest operations is to consider the
consequences of different management strategies and to estimate the economic …

This study conducts the first cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment (LCA) study on forestry
operations in Iran and provides comprehensive regionalized life cycle inventory (LCI) data …

One of many possible climate change effects in temperate areas is the increase of frequency
and severity of windstorms; thus, fast and cost efficient new methods are needed to evaluate …

Coppicing is a very traditional method of forest management and is still widespread in many
regions worldwide. Until the middle of the 20th century, coppice forests were very common …

Coppice is considered the oldest form of sustainable forest management in the
Mediterranean area. Generally, it produces rapidly woody biomass and environmental …

Renaturalization treatment in black pine afforestation is an important topic that should be
considered. There is a need to favor the evolution of artificial pine forests toward natural …

In Mediterranean regions, afforested areas were planted to ensure the permanence of land
cover, and to protect against erosion and to initiate the vegetation processes. For those …

The aim of this paper is to analyse the environmental performances of three different
extraction systems for forestry considering three different scenarios concerning the …