Laura Bouriaud

Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava | USV · Faculty of Forestry

Cultural ecosystem services offer a range of benefits for human well-being, but from an identity perspective. These benefits include aesthetic experiences, knowledge and skills, spirituality, involvement in nature conservation, which means that, indirectly, cul- tural services ensure the preservation of all forms of life. The concept of cultural...

The bundle of forest landowners’ rights largely varies from one jurisdiction to another. On a global scale, the diversity of forest management regime and property rights systems is such that finding comprehensive and standardised approaches for governance analysis purposes is a challenging task. This paper explores the use of the Property Rights In...

Large Old Trees (LOT) are keystone ecological structures and have high cultural and economic importance. Still, LOT are only exceptionally targeted specifically by National Laws and are absent from powerful nature conservation policies (e.g., the Natura 2000 protected area policies of the European Union). Romania recently adopted a Law for its LOT....

This study assesses whether and to what extent national and regional policy developments meet the EU Forest Strategy goals. It analyses those policies in 15 countries in and outside the EU, as well as in three regions in Spain. The countries are: Austria (AT), Czech Republic (CZ), Finland (FI), Germany (DE), Ireland (IE), Italy (IT), Lithuania (LT)...

Result-based payments are so-called agri-environment schemes in which farmers and land managers are paid for allowing or enhancing the presence of bird, butterfly, or flower species of particular biodiversity importance on their land, with the farmer receiving a payment corresponding to the result desired by the environmental authority. In Romania,...

The bundle of forest landowners’ rights largely varies from one jurisdiction to another. On a global scale, the diversity of forest regime and property rights systems is such that finding similarities for governance analysis purposes is a challenging task. This paper built on the Property Rights Index for Forestry (PRIF). We show that PRIF is a rel...

Panaite C., Bouriaud L., Nichiforel, Coșofreț C., Socoliuc, M., 2022. Characterization of the competitive environment and some structural attributes for the forestry sector in Romania Bucov. For. 22(2): 137-152 Abstract. The structure of the forest sector as part of the national economy where the production and marketing of forest products take pla...

Key message Forest monitoring in Europe is turning matter of renewed political concern, and a possible role for ICP Forests health monitoring has been suggested to meet this goal (Ann For Sci 78:94, 2021). Multipurpose national forest inventory (NFI) surveys yet offer a sampling effort by two orders of magnitude greater than ICP level 1, have accom...

Forest management adaptation to climate change is a matter of forest type, disturbances regime, and forest owners’ behavior face the climate change issue. Knowing factors that determine people respond to climate change challenges is essential to explaining their perceptions of climate change adaptation. We have conducted astudy in North-Eastern Rom...

Eco‐schemes are set to play an important role in the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) post‐2022 for the delivery of environmental and climate benefits and enhanced animal welfare. This article surveys current plans for the design of eco‐schemes in fifteen European Union Member States. The number of eco‐scheme measures to be offered...

Aim of the report - This report aims to explore the importance of biodiversity in the context of European forests and to make suggestions on how this biodiversity can be effectively maintained and enhanced through protection, management and restoration. The term Europe in this document means European Union, except where mentioned otherwise. The rep...

This book is a call for collective and integrated action to global leaders, investors, companies, scientists, governments, nongovernmental and intergovernmental organizations, funding agencies and the society at large to put Romania’s forests on a sustainable path. This vision is put forward by Romanian and international experts whose exceptional...

ROMANIAN NATIONAL CODE OF ETHICS FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Forests play a key role in a bio-based economy by providing renewable materials, mitigating climate change, and accommodating biodiversity. However, forests experience massive increases in stresses in their ecological and socioeconomic environments, threatening forest ecosystem services supply. Alleviating those stresses is hampered by conflicting...

This report describes the results of the Fem4Forest online survey, summarizes the key findings from the in-depth interviews with women forest owners and professionals, and provides an overview of the stakeholder roundtables. It also briefly explains the underlying methodology (Section 2). A detailed version of the project’s research and action...

The present report is a deliverable of the Fem4Forest project. It is carried out in the Danube region and covers 10 countries. The report describes the results of the Fem4Forest online survey, summarizes the key findings from the in-depth interviews with women forest owners and professionals, and provides an overview of the stakeholder roundtables....

Fem4Forest – Forests in Women’s Hands is a project co-funded by European Union and the main object is to integrate innovative methods and tools for better integration of woman into working places and deci-sion-making processes into the forestry sector in the Danube region, exchange the best practices and in-crease capacities of the local and region...

Lucrarea abordează un subiect actual și important a cărui studiere este absolut necesară societății și sectorului de produse forestiere nelemnoase (PFNL). Motivația studiului a fost reliefarea importanței științifice și practice a PFNL pentru comunitățile rurale și pentru întreaga ramură silvică. Alegerea temei de cercetare este justificată de inte...

Diversitatea specifică reprezintă o modalitate directă de evaluare a biodiversității, iar indicele de entropie Shannon este cel mai frecvent utilizat. Diversitatea speciilor forestiere variază în limite largi între diferite zone sau regiuni. Modelul LandClim este potrivit pentru a surprinde dinamica vegetației forestiere la scări temporale și spați...

Procesul de consultare publică s-a desfășurat sub egida Ministerului Mediului, Apelor și Pădurilor în perioada iulie-decembrie 2020 în scopul identificării de opțiuni strategice pentru dezvoltarea politicii forestiere. El a urmărit implicarea tuturor factorilor interesați sau afectați de gestionarea pădurilor într-un dialog structurat cu scopul de...

Analiza fluxurilor de lemn este importantă pentru orice evaluare a sustenabilității de utilizare a resursei forestiere. Au fost analizate în acest studiu fluxurile de lemn brut din România în 2017, pornind de la un scenariu de consum bazat pe capacitatea maximă de procesare instalată. Balanța resurselor lemnoase consideră utilizarea lemnului ca mat...

Soil biodiversity is crucial for maintaining forest health and safeguarding forest ecosystem services delivery, but it is under increasing human pressure. Forest management puts pressure on soil biodiversity, but has also the potential to support soil biodiversity recovery, depending on which decisions forest managers make. These decisions are high...

In the last two decades, attention on forests and ownership rights has increased in different domains of international policy, particularly in relation to achieving the global sustainable development goals. This paper looks at the changes in forest-specific legislation applicable to regular productive forests, across 28 European countries. We compa...

Romania's forest policy is based on a long tradition in establishing and implementing the principles of sustainable management of forestry resources, based on a sound scientific and technical foundation. This resulted in a rigorous forestry regime, designed to operate efficiently under the conditions of state ownership over all forests. Over the pa...

Forma actualizata a acestuii document si aprobata in noiembrie 2021 de catre CNECSDTI este disponibila la http://www.research.gov.ro/uploads/sistemul-de-cercetare/organisme-consultative/cnecsdti/2020/ghid-integritate-in-cercetarea-stiintifica-cne-2020.pdf Un cod de etică a cercetării științifice este un produs îndelung amânat în spațiul public rom...

Climate change is a challenge for forest managers and owners. The trees regenerated in forest stands today will have to cope with changing conditions during their lifetime. Adaptive forest management includes a large variety of silvicultural measures: changes in species composition by converting monocultures to mixed forests, changes in forest stru...

Over the last 25 years, the post-communist countries have encompassed important changes in ownership because of the transition from a centralised regime to an open market economy. Following the implementation of three different land restitution laws, almost 51% of the Romanian forestlands are currently in non-state ownership. The paper uses the DPS...

This study analyses the linkages between private forest owners’ perceptions of forest management, and their affinity for subsidies, in a range of European countries. Society increasingly requires the provision of ecosystem services from forests, but the willingness of forest owners to redirect management goals from wood production to the provision...

Global climate change is one of the biggest threats to the environment, with direct consequences for the terrestrial life and the human activity. Thus, the analysis of public knowledge regarding the importance, causes and effects of climate change is entirely justified. The public knowledge about the phenomenon of climate change is influenced by th...

Private forests are widespread in Europe providing a range of ecosystem services of significant value to society, and there are calls for novel policies to enhance their provision and to face the challenges of environmental changes. Such policies need to acknowledge the importance of private forests, and importantly they need to be based on a deep...

The types of forest ecosystems of ”Dobrușa” protected area

Climate change will impact forests and may impair their ability to provide essential ecosystem services in the decades to come. Addressing this challenge requires adjustments to forest management strategies as of now, but it is still unclear to what extent this is already in progress. Using data from surveys of 1131 forest owners and managers from...

Private forests are widespread in Europe providing a range of ecosystem services of significant value to society, and there are calls for novel policies to enhance their provision and to face the challenges of environmental changes. Such policies need to acknowledge the importance of private forests, and importantly they need to be based on a deep...

Private forest owners' involvement in forest management has been frequently examined through the attitudes, values, beliefs, objectives and motivations associated with owning and managing forestland. Owners' views on forest management do not always align with those of policymakers who believe forest owners do not actively manage their forests. Howe...

Mushrooms have a special position in many cultures where they are used as food, medicine, handicrafts, have special cultural significance as symbols or in rituals and are a motivation for forest recreation. However, there is also a dark side to mushrooms which are also associated with poisoning, decay and death. This dichotomy is reflected in the s...

Background The quantitative impact of forest management on forests’ wood resource was evaluated for Picea and Fagus mixed forests. The effects on the productivity of tendering operations, thinnings and rotation length have seldom been directly quantified on landscape scale. Methods Two sites of similar fertility but subject to contrasted forest man...

Poplar (Populus spp.) is a fast-growing species in temperate conditions, with potential to substitute fossil fuels by obtaining energy from biomass. The aim of this work was to study the productivity of 6 hybrid poplar clone from a hilly region of NE Romania, after a growing season of 4 and, respectively, 5 years. Rods were used as planting materia...

Social conflicts analysis of poplar crops relies on the study of the local inhabitants’ attitudes and perception about the change of the land use from agriculture to poplar plantation. We have applied a quantitative methodology with structured questionnaire in two localities (abbreviated as D and M) from North-Est Romania to assess inhabitants’ per...

Forest disturbances are a resultant of a complex of factors, both natural and human. The most frequent cases of disturbance in the study area are related to windthrown, insect attacks and illegal logging. The disturbance drivers mentioned have mutual interactions and tend to enhance their total influence on the forest ecosystems and also to reshape...

Short rotation cultures of trees on agricultural land are implemented in various countries as to increase the European wood supply from outside the existing forest sector. However, the change of traditional agricultural land use towards intensive culture techniques may involve some environmental and social risks. The paper describes an original met...

Hybrid poplar clones (Populus spp.) have become an important part of forest economy at global level. They respond to the necessity of obtaining large quantities of biomass with multiple uses within a short period of time, period that overlaps the strategic development plans of major investors in the field. In this respect, it is proposed to highlig...

The experimental area (about 4,0 ha) was located in Suceava Plateau (Bălcăuţi hills), in the northeast part of Romania. Biomass accumulation were measured during two crop years (2013-2015) on three clones of poplar hybrids (AF8, AF2 and Pannonia). The area was divided into several plots depending on sites of culture (tillage field/ fallow field), t...

The poplar (Populus spp.) plays an important role in worldwide forest economy, responding to the necessities of obtaining high biomass production in a short time. Short rotation forests (SRF) are developing continuously in Romania. Several studies have been undertaken to identify the clones with high productivity and suitable technologies. The aim...

Despite the fact that the institutional environment is acknowledged to influence the implementation of regional adaptations of forest management to climate change, there are few empirical studies addressing the institutional factors and opportunities of adaptation. Using Ostrom’s institutional analysis and development framework, we aimed to identif...

Grid-based inventories of 1,924 deciduous forests plots in Germany and 4,775 in Romania were used to investigate tree species composition as affected by browsing and grazing under different forest management (rotation forestry, selectively cut forest, protected forest). At regional scale, the loss of tree species in the dominant layer was between 5...

Biomass and species composition of a forest district in the North-Eastern Carpathian Mountains were simulated until 2100 using the forest landscape model LandClim, driven by climate data from three general circulation models that projected the local climate change under the A1B emission scenario. Four different management scenarios were used: busin...

The increased demand for fuelwood may have the side-effect of unsustainable use of forest resource. The case of Kosovo fuelwood production is of a peculiar relevance to studying the drivers of the unsustainable patterns of forest biomass use in a post-war and poor economic context. The domestic market demand for fuelwood in Kosovo is estimated at m...

Is increasingly likely or even accepted the idea that the climatic parameter changes can affect the environment and the forestry ecosystems. In this context new provocations appear for forest mangers to understand, prevent and improve these changes. This study presents perceptions, opinions and attitudes of forestry engineers about the climatic cha...

Forest management adaptation to the climate change is a matter of forest type, disturbances regime, but also a matter of forest owners’ behaviour face to the climate change issue. A study was conducted in North-Eastern Romania with the aim to identify the perceptions and attitudes of private forest owners regarding the forest management and, partic...

A growing recent literature argues that the adaptation to the climate change depends on the perceptions that the stakeholders have on potential effects of the climate change and the possibilities to counteract these effects. This study focuses on forestry engineers' perceptions on climate changes and adapting measures. A number of 76 semi-structure...

In this opinion paper we investigate the effects of forest management on animal and plant biodiversity by comparing protected areas with intensively and extensively managed forests in Germany and in Romania. We want to know the extent to which differences in diversity of Romanian compared to German forests are based on management. The number of tr...

This book provides an extended analysis of how resource extraction projects stimulate social, cultural and economic change in indigenous communities. Through a range of case studies, including open cast mining, artisanal mining, logging, deforestation, oil extraction and industrial fishing, the contributors explore the challenges highlighted in glo...

Biomass and species composition of a forest district in the North-Eastern Carpathian Mountains were simulated until 2100 using the forest landscape model LandClim, driven by climate data from three general circulation models that projected the local climate change under the A1B emission scenario. Four different management scenarios were used: busin...

La puissance publique doit faire face à des problèmes substantiels liés à la gestion de forêts. Dans les pays de l’Europe Centrale et de l’Est, la gestion forestière privée est subordonnée au principe de gestion durable dans les lois forestières adoptées après 1990. La transposition des objectifs de gestion durable est éminemment règlementaire et a...

This chapter focuses specifically on the manifestation of corruption in the Romanian public forest sector and how this impacts on the country’s ability to follow through on sustainable forest management principles that includes socially accountable governance of the forest resource. The authors aim to highlight corrupt practices and the resulting i...

Despite existing knowledge on forest research capacities in Europe and forest research results and needs, little information specifically addresses the research capacities or research projects relevant for the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE) process. The present study, benefiting from European Forest Institute...

The presentation it’s about FP7 FUNDIVEurope project - Functional significance of forest biodiversity in Europe. The research platforms from FunDivEUROPE project framework has the aim, the covering a big range of ecological conditions, the analysis of forest and management type from Europe. The USV’s team helped at processing and sampling protocol...

The research aimed at comparative evaluation of biodiversity in four habitat types, whose degree of human intervention is determined by how they are used: poplar intensive cultures with short productioncycle, wheat crops, pastures and floodplain forests. Thus, field observations concerning the spectrum and the abundance of vascular plants, the pres...

At the beginning of last year, the land-base of private estates in Romania was 374 400 ha, (5% of national forest land), while the average of private woodlands reached about 0.56 ha. Through the Law on land ownership promoted on 10 January, 2000, another 700 000 ha will be transferred to the former owners. In spite of legal provisions aiming to enh...

A property rights-based approach is proposed in the paper to underline the common characteristics of the forest property rights specification in ten ECE countries, the specific patterns governing the harvesting of timber in private forestry and the role of the forest management planning in determining the content of the property rights. The analysi...

This article examines innovation processes in forest recreational services on the basis of case studies in five European countries with differing institutional backgrounds of forest ownership and access rights. The analysis reveals that forest-related recreation services are developed under varying institutional conditions and on public as well as...

This book is the result of the COST Action E51 on 'Integrating Innovation and Development Policies for the Forest Sector', which studied innovation policies and processes in the forest sector in Europe. It contains 18 chapters, which are grouped into 2 parts: one on the innovation field of territorial goods and services; and the other on wood value...

The market share of timber-frame construction has increased in many European countries after the revision of national building regulations and implementation of national development programmes as well as marketing efforts of the forest industry. Our research within COST E51 has looked at the timber construction industry and assessed the innovation...

This book is the result of the COST Action E51 on 'Integrating Innovation and Development Policies for the Forest Sector', which studied innovation policies and processes in the forest sector in Europe. It contains 18 chapters, which are grouped into 2 parts: one on the innovation field of territorial goods and services; and the other on wood value...

The current issue of the Annals of Forest Research results from the discussions and communications presented at this conference and put together articles from various fields related to the management of forest resources by both forest science researchers and socioeconomics researchers, involving often multidisciplinary approaches. Better knowledge...

When analyzing the structure of the ownership in a country, usually two forms of ownership are mentioned, the public and the private forest ownership. However, due to the cultural, historical and political meaning of ownership in each country, the reference to only the form of ownership is not informative enough to understanding forest-related prac...

Tourism is a major management issue for many protected areas as the presence and actions of visitors can present serious problems for biodiversity conservation. Therefore, tourism has to be managed carefully and site managers must assess and balance the costs and benefits of tourism in protected areas. It is also important to find ways for local pe...

We have analysed the Forest Code or the main forest law of Baltic countries (Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania), Eastern and Central European countries (Slovakia, Romania, Poland, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Ukraine, Byelorussia, Moldova) and of Central Asiatic republics (Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia) to identify the structure of property rights in pr...

In this paper, the property rights system (PR) in small-scale forestry in Europe is analysed in relationship to enterprise and innovation development. The paper applies the theory of property rights to distinguish four criteria relevant for enterprise and innovation development: security of rights, definition of the content, transferability of the...

The paper is using a micro-level approach to describe the business milieu of the wood harvesting and processing firms. The choice is based on the hypothesis that in an under-developed innovation system, as it is the case in Romania, the manager of the firm or/and the entrepreneur stays in the best position to influence the innovation introduction a...

We develop and implement a collocation method to solve for an equilibrium in the dynamic legislative bargaining game of Duggan and Kalandrakis (2008). We formulate the collocation equations in a quasi-discrete version of the model, and we show that the collocation equations are locally Lipchitz continuous and directionally differentiable. In numeri...

This paper reports the results from the case-studies of Subgroup “Forestry Associations” in Working Group 1 of COST Action E30 “Economic integration of urban consumers’ demand and rural forestry production”. The main purpose of this paper is to identify similarities and differences of forest owners’ organizations in a group of countries from No...

A study has been undertaken to investigate the extent to which poverty is a determinant (final cause) of illegal logging, and to identify valid short-term policy variables for the control of illegal logging in Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries. The study identifies the main features of illegal logging and forest-related and rural-related...

The study applies some concepts of the economics of property rights to the allocation of rights on forests in Central and Eastern European countries. The classification of forest assets, according to their economic characteristics and the analytical framework proposed by SCHLAGER & OSTROM (1992), are used to examine the impact of ownership reforms...

Competitiveness of Romanian wood processing industry/NWFP on external markets is based mainly on the comparative advantage of lower labour costs. Competitiveness was affected till recently by the regulation of timber prices, restriction on timber trade and monopolistic position of the national forest administration. In the last decade the low level...

The paper proposes an empirical analysis of the demand and supply as they appear trough the auctions for standing timber organised by the Forest Directorate Suceava, a regional branch of the National Forest Administration located in the Northern part of Romania. The results confirm that there is a trend of territorial concentration of large firms,...