Mediterranean forest is a fraction (around 1.5%) of total world forest and is confined to a very particular environment that historically suffered anthropogenic pressure. Forest has been critical for local economies since ancient times and forest products unlimitedly exploited. This unique and very fragile natural heritage needs a sustainable management that complies both human and environmental issues. With the above in mind, a pilot project (GESFO, www.cs.iia.cnr.it/GESFO) was launched to prove that a practical sustainable management plan of Mediterranean forests should integrate the detailed and updated forests knowledge, the technological improvement of wood chain processes and the socio-economic analysis of the context. Remote sensing was used to obtain information on forest typologies and biomass, strength and weakness of the wood chain processes (timber-cutting, logging, etc.) have been studied, the forest products market was analysed, the regional socio-economy was considered. As results information, mainly retrieved from previous EU projects, has been used to construct an ecological-economic model that can assess the processes improvement in the wood chain and detail to local industries trends of wood availability as well as market demand. The system is being implemented in a user-friendly interface (webgis).
Supporting the sustainable management of Mediterranean forest through the Integration of remote sensing, Webgis and socio-economic model systems
Cinnirella S;Pirrone N;
2007
Abstract
Mediterranean forest is a fraction (around 1.5%) of total world forest and is confined to a very particular environment that historically suffered anthropogenic pressure. Forest has been critical for local economies since ancient times and forest products unlimitedly exploited. This unique and very fragile natural heritage needs a sustainable management that complies both human and environmental issues. With the above in mind, a pilot project (GESFO, www.cs.iia.cnr.it/GESFO) was launched to prove that a practical sustainable management plan of Mediterranean forests should integrate the detailed and updated forests knowledge, the technological improvement of wood chain processes and the socio-economic analysis of the context. Remote sensing was used to obtain information on forest typologies and biomass, strength and weakness of the wood chain processes (timber-cutting, logging, etc.) have been studied, the forest products market was analysed, the regional socio-economy was considered. As results information, mainly retrieved from previous EU projects, has been used to construct an ecological-economic model that can assess the processes improvement in the wood chain and detail to local industries trends of wood availability as well as market demand. The system is being implemented in a user-friendly interface (webgis).I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
