Scientific poster titled: The implementation of Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management in countries of former Yugoslavia
The poster was presented at the Second Management Committee and Working Groups Meeting as well as at the Conference, Third Core Group and Dissemination Meeting of the COST Action CAPABAL TN1401. The meeting was held in Vienna (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences- BOKU) in the days 16-18 September 2015. The poster presented results of the Short Term Scientific Mission carried out in June 2015 at the Biotechnical Faculty of Ljubljana University.
Practitioners' article on a Spanish forestry magazine> Analysis of conflicts derived from forest energy biomass production in Europe
Francesca Ferranti, founder of Nature&Society, co-authored a publication on a practitioners' magazine which assessed challenges of forest biomass production in Europe. The article presented results of the COOL project (COOL-http://www.cool-project.org/) in a format understandable to forest operators and actors of the forest sector. In particular the paper reflects over the production of energy wood from forests in five European countries (Finland, Germany, Norway, Slovenia and Spain) looking at national contribution of forest biomass to the domestic energy mix, national policies affecting forest biomass production, strengths and opportunities offered by forest biomass in the studied countries, as well as problems and possible solutions.
Policy brief> COOL project: More fodder for the oven?
The policy brief aims at presenting and summarizing the results of the European project “COmpeting uses of fOrest Land” (COOL-http://www.cool-project.org/), carried out in 2012–2014 within the two ERA -Nets WoodWisdom-Net2 and Bioenergy. The project was dedicated to the analysis of current forest policy and management aspects involved in the production and use of forest biomass for energy, and in the projection of forecasts for the future. The policy brief reports data on energy wood production and use in five European countries (Finland, Germany, Norway, Slovenia and Spain) and focuses on the analysis of potential trade-offs and synergies between provision of biomass for energy generation and other forest functions (e.g. climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation and recreation). The policy brief also displays policy recommendations to deal with the challenge that the provision of biomass for energy represents for European forests.
Articles published on WoodWisdom Net (http://www.woodwisdom.net/news-events/) and on EFI news (http://www.efi.int/files/attachments/efi_news/efi_news_2014-2_final_siw.pdf) which describe the final outputs of the COOL project (http://www.cool-project.org/). The project aimed at finding out how forest management approaches in five European countries and political strategies to meet increasing demands of bioenergy from forest wood take into account other forest ecosystem services
Articles in Italian published on Intersezioni (http://www.intersezioni.eu/), online magazine for graduates in agronomy and forestry sciences