Sixth Meeting of the WG on Sustainable Forest Management & Workshop on balancing bioenergy production and sustainable forest management in Mountain Areas
16 - 18 May 2017, Sopron, Hungary
Next meeting of the WG Forest will be organized together with a EUSDR Priority Area 2 – Sustainable Energy (PA2) “Workshop on balancing bioenergy production and sustainable forest management in Mountain Areas“, which will be an integral part of our Working Group meeting.
The main objective of the WG Forest meeting is completion of the inventory of Virgin Forest in the Carpathians, while the PA2 Workshop will focus on concerns and recommendations on how to achieve a socially and environmentally sustainable climate and energy policy associated with bioenergy production in mountain areas of the Danube/Carpathian Region and open the debate about increasing demand for bioenergy production and the question on how this demand can be met in a sustainable way.
MEETING DOCUMENTS
- Czech Republic
- Hungary
- Romania
- Ukraine
- Protocol on Sustainable Forest Management download
- Strategic Action Plan for the Implementation of the Forest Protocol download
- Criteria and Indicators for identification of virgin forests in the Carpathians download
- Revised Terms of the Reference for WG Forestdownload
Forest Naturalness Assessment in the Czech Republic (document where the evaluation criteria and the evaluation method are presented)
Forest Naturalness Assessment in the Czech Republic and its using in policy and management (poster where definitions of degrees of naturalness are given)
Integrative approaches as an opportunity for conservation of forest biodiversity (relevant information chapter 1.4)
If we burn wood for energy, we can’t have our cake and eat it
OUTCOMES OF THE CARPATHIAN PROJECT WITH REFERENCE TO FORESTS IN THE REGION:
MEETING PRESENTATIONS
PRESENTATIONS FROM THE WG FOREST MEETING
- Baseline for Carpathian wide forest indicators – virgin forest inventory (EEA)
- Baseline for Carpathian wide forest indicators – EEA overview about Naturalness indicator and HNV forest
- Virgin forests in Ukraine (Ukrainian Research Institute of Mountain Forestry Ivano-Frankivsk)
- Virgin and Old Growth Forests in Ukraine (Roman Volosyanchuk, WWF Danube-Carpathian Programme Ukraine)
- Forest naturalness assessment in the Czech Republic
- Forest change detection and monitoring using passive and active remote sensing data (RS4FOR) project presentation (Ms. Staszyńska, Jagiellonian University)
- Climate change induced forest dynamics in the Carpathians (Mr. Hlásny, Czech University of Life Sciences)
- Water balance of the forests (Mr. Gribovszki, Sopron University)
- Condition of the mountain forests (Mr. Csoka, Hungarian Forest Research Institute)
- GIS-based infrastructure to assess species and provenance suitability
- EO4SEE – the pathfinder of operational satellite monitoring for the region of the Black Sea and Central Europe (Mr. Turos, Topologic Consulting)
PRESENTATIONS FROM THE PA2 WORKSHOP
- Introduction, presentation of EUSDR (PA 2), Carpathian Convention, MoC (PA2 and the Czech Presidency)
- European Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR) & Carpathian Convention
- Protocol on Sustainable Forest Management (Mr. Egerer, Secretariat of the Carpathian Convention)
- Adaptation to climate change in mountain areas (Mr. Szalai, Carpathian Convention WG on Adaptation to Climate Change)
- Sustainable forest management (Mr. Štěrba, Carpathian Convention WG on Sustainable Forest Management)
- A sustainable bioenergy policy for the period after 2020 (Presenting the Position of the European bioenergy sector (Mr. Vaszkó, WWF Hungary)
- Impacts of biomass use in forest areas in Europe (Mr. Wolfslehner, European Forest Institute)
- Mitigation of Climate Change (Land Use, Land Use Change and Forestry LULUCF – Mr. Somogyi, Hungarian Forest Research Institute)
- PromoBio project (Mr. Otepka)
- R.green – a Decision Support System to balance Alpine energy and nature (Mr. Vettorato, EURAC)
- Improvement of forest transport network of mountain areas as primary factor to elaborate sustainable forest management
