Italian coppices and their economic income
Author(s)
Date Issued
2020
Type
conferenceObject
Start Page
74
End Page
76
Abstract
© 2020, ETA-Florence Renewable Energies. All Rights Reserved. Coppice is one of the most important management system of Italian forests. An overall view of Italian coppices situation taken from National Forest Inventory is given in the present work. Moreover forest enterprises characteristics were analyzed and the overlay between these investigated parameters allowed to an evaluation of the improvement possibilities of coppice management in Italian context. The main results of this analysis showed that the main problems of Italian forest sector, with particular reference to coppice are: Predominance of private properties, lacking of forest utilizations planning, lacking of technological innovation mostly linked to bunching-extraction operation, low economic value of fuel wood and lacking of products diversification.
Project(s)
This research was in part carried out within the framework of the MIUR (Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research) initiative “Departments of Excellence” (Law 232/2016), WP3, which financed the Department of Agriculture and Forest Science at the University of Tuscia.