Technologies, Applications and Assessments for Proper Sustainable Forest Operations (SFO)

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2023
• Subjects: agro-forestry operations; biodiversity conservation; boreal forest; cable yarder; clearcut harvesting; climate change; cost-efficiency; cut-to-length; education; efficiency; experimental economics; forest operation; forest operations; forest residues; forestry; forestry infrastructure; forwarder; forwarding; fuels; game theory; GIS; GNSS; harvesting site conditions; History of engineering and technology; improvement; LiDAR; logging cost analysis; machine operating trail; manual labor; mastication; Mediterranean area; midfield; mining; no-net-loss; OWAS method; poplar planting; postural risk; precision forestry; random forest; reengineering; restoration; rut depth; SDI; single-grip harvester; skidding operation; skidding productivity; skidding-winch; soft soil; soil properties; soil protection; soil recovery; soil resilience; stand density index; supply mechanism; sustainability; sustainable forest operation; sustainable forest operations; Sweden; Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes; Technology: general issues; tethering winch; time study technique; TLS data; traffic intensity; tree-length logging; wood living species
• ISBN: 9783036549781; 3036549773; 9783036549774; 3036549781
• DOI: 10.3390/books978-3-0365-4978-1

This Special Issue focused on the "Technologies, Applications, and Assessments for Proper Sustainable Forest Operations (SFOs)". One of the main topics was to promote knowledge for future relations between forest logging, environmental protection, and management of forests in order to provide timber at reasonable costs and other ecosystem services, such as recreation and conservation as well as biodiversity. This Special Issue contains 12 original papers, some of them reporting the outcomes of long-time experiences, reviewed by international experts in forestry and forest operations engineering fields. This Special Issue aims to increase the knowledge concerning the SFOs, with practical implications at scientific and technical levels. This Special Issue collected a representative sample of the most recent papers on the subject, which come from many different countries and cover a variety of subjects, confirming the wide scope covered by the Sustainable Forest Operations topic.