Forest Operations and Sustainability
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Forestry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 February 2024) | Viewed by 16383
Special Issue Editors
Interests: wood harvesting systems; forest accessibility; life cycle analysis and environmental suitability of timber harvesting
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: forest roads planning and design; forest roads maintenance/reconstruction and determination of their rehabilitation methods; optimization of primary forest road traffic infrastructure
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The core of planning in forestry is sustainability and the promotion of five important 5E-criteria: environmental, economic, energy efficient, ergonomic and esthetic. This is because of the various roles forests have in everyday life. Forestry directly and indirectly affects society, and lately, the importance of forests is more obvious than ever, as we are experiencing climatic extremes and climate change. Efficient management in forestry includes cross-disciplinary actions because it combines various experts from forest operations, silviculture and ecology, forest protection and wildlife management, forest inventory, modelling and remote sensing to forest genetics and dendrology all with the same goal—achieving and maintaining healthy and stable forest eco-systems.
The goal of this Special Issue is, therefore, to combine cross-disciplinary areas of forestry, highlighting sustainability, innovation and latest research in the following:
- Forest operations (harvesting, biomass, road network planning, ergonomics and work safety, training and certification, supply chains, environmentally friendly forest operations, life cycle assessment, machine design and mechanisation).
- Forest inventory and management (remote sensing, modelling and digitalisation, sensors, dynamics of the sustainable management, management of small private forests, etc.).
- Forest protection (forest fires, wildlife management, zoology, entomology, phytopathology, etc.).
- Forest genetics and dendrology (quantitative and population genetics, conservation of genetic resources, stress physiology, dendrology, etc.).
- Forest ecology (silviculture, phytocoenology, pedology and forest karst melioration with nature protection, etc.).
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Andreja Đuka
Dr. Ivica Papa
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- forest operations
- remote sensing
- forest fires
- entomology
- stress physiology
- dendrology
- silviculture
- phytocoenology