Search for Articles:
Title / Keyword
Author / Affiliation / Email
Journal
Article Type
 
 
Advanced Search
 
Section
Special Issue
Volume
Issue
Number
Page
 
4.5
2.9
Journals
Forests
Special Issues
Forest Protection and Management - the Key to Ensure the...
share announcement

Forest Protection and Management - the Key to Ensure the Effective Use of Resources

A special issue of Forests (ISSN 1999-4907). This special issue belongs to the section "Forest Ecology and Management".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 December 2022) | Viewed by 3854

Special Issue Editors

Prof. Dr. Paraskevi Karanikola

E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, Democritus University of Thrace, Orestiada, Greece
Interests: Forest and environmental protection; environmental management and awareness; green infrastructure
Prof. Dr. Thomas Panagopoulos

E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Faculty of Science and Technology, Research Centre for Tourism, Sustainability and Well-Being, University of Algarve, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal
Interests: nature-based solutions; landscape restoration; sustainable development; climate change adaptation; green infrastructure; environmental justice; carbon neutral cities
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Prof. Dr. Thiago Almeida Vieira

E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Institute of Biodiversity and Forests, Federal University of Western Pará, Santarem 68040, Brazil
Interests: agroecology; agroforestry; quality of life
Dr. Angelos Tsikas

E-Mail Website
Guest Editor
Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, Democritus University of Thrace, Orestiada, Greece
Interests: forest protection; forest entomology; biodiversity conservation; environmental ethics

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Forests are beneficial to human societies in ways of commercial or recreational purposes; such as timber, fuel, tourism, hunting and hiking, all these benefits are known as forest resources.

Drastic deforestation, poor forest management and forest hygiene, alongside the climate change threat are considered as major threats to the stability of forest resources. Biotic factors, like insect pests and microorganisms, and abiotic factors, like wildfires, are considered as major threats worldwide. With forest exploitation and continuous forest decline, sustainable practices that preserve the balance between human needs and the environment are needed to ensure forest viability.

Adaptive management practices, under the frame of multi-purpose silviculture, alongside policies that aim to protect the natural environment and biodiversity, are crucial to maintaining the effective use of forest resources. With proper management tools and policies, we will be able to guarantee an overall improvement in terms of productivity, structure and functions that will ensure that the forests have high standards to fulfill their multiple services.

Hence, forest protection and management are the keys to ensuring forest conservation and the effective use of environmental resources.

Prof. Dr. Paraskevi Karanikola
Prof. Dr. Thomas Panagopoulos
Prof. Dr. Thiago Almeida Vieira
Dr. Angelos Tsikas
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Forests is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2600 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • forest protection
  • wildfires
  • forest management
  • forest pests and diseases
  • global change

Published Papers (1 paper)

Order results
Result details
Show export options expand_more Show export options expand_less
Select all
Export citation of selected articles as:

Research

11 pages, 1494 KiB  
Article
The Legal Roundwood Market in the Amazon and Its Impact on Deforestation in the Region between 2009–2015
by Fernando Wallase Carvalho Andrade, Tatiane Inácio Pinto, Letícia da Silva Moreira, Márcio José Moutinho da Ponte, Tarcísio da Costa Lobato, João Thiago Rodrigues de Sousa and Victor Hugo Pereira Moutinho
Forests 2022, 13(4), 558; https://doi.org/10.3390/f13040558 - 31 Mar 2022
Cited by 7 | Viewed by 2336
Abstract
Brazil is one of the largest producers of tropical wood in the world. Much of this wood is extracted from the Amazon region, especially in the state of Pará. Despite empirical knowledge, there is little information in the literature about the selectivity of [...] Read more.
Brazil is one of the largest producers of tropical wood in the world. Much of this wood is extracted from the Amazon region, especially in the state of Pará. Despite empirical knowledge, there is little information in the literature about the selectivity of trade and how this production has been behaving in recent years. Is there any relationship between this legal timber trade and deforestation? In this work, we compile data reports from control agencies and analyze the dynamics of the legal timber market in the state of Pará between 2009 and 2015 in terms of species, volume, and monetary value. We also correlate changes in volume m−3 and value m−3 with deforestation increase in the same period and region. We find that only ten groups of species represent almost 50% of the total timber volume marketed in the State, mainly from the Massaranduba (Manilkara) group. According to our models, the supply of a species of wood on the market is defined by its monetary value and not by its availability or characteristics, which hinders the insertion of new species and increases selectivity. Since 2011 the volume of legally traded logs has been decreasing sharply. Traditional forest regions in the state already demonstrate depletion in forested areas. While others, such as the lower Amazon region, have been increasing production, showing that new forestry operations areas are being used for harvesting in the function of the lower availability in traditional areas. Our models show that the legal reduced impact logging timber volume has an inverse relationship with the deforestation increase. Otherwise, preference for a small group of timber types still predominates, which may lead local woods to the danger of extinction. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Forest Protection and Management - the Key to Ensure the Effective Use of Resources)
►▼ Show Figures

Figure 1

Show export options expand_more Show export options expand_less
Select all
Export citation of selected articles as:
 
Displaying articles 1-1
Back to TopTop