Increasing wood mobilization through Sustainable Forest Management in protected areas of Italy

摘要: Normal 0 14 false IT JA X-NONE The European Community has long recognized the need to further promote renewable energy. Under overall objective support and enhance sustainable management, promotion of use forest biomass could help mitigate climate change by substituting fossil fuel, increasing carbon stock in wood products improve energy self-sufficiency enhancing security supply providing job opportunities rural areas. To what extent Italian forests can satisfy an increased demand, without compromising others Ecosystem Services (ESs) remains open question. Our aim was assess potential woody from network protected areas Italy considering felling constraints. We estimated theoretical annual increment inventory data performing a correlation with Corine Land Cover 2006 at IV level 1:100,000 resolution elaborated GIS (Geographic Information System) environment. average national available for 4.4 m 3 ha -1 . Within (EUAP Natura 2000), increment, felling, 0.98 , respectively, 0.81 coppice 1.14 non-coppice forests. Based on obtained this study, availability materials be almost 20 % pursuing active management within In Italy, actual resource utilization is rather low; together implementation allow satisfying, theoretically, consumption. /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabella normale"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";}