Carbon implications of forest restitution in post-socialist Romania

P Olofsson, T Kuemmerle, P Griffiths… - Environmental …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The collapse of socialism in 1989 triggered a phase of institutional restructuring in Central
and Eastern Europe. Several countries chose to privatize forests or to return them to pre …

Post‐Soviet farmland abandonment, forest recovery, and carbon sequestration in western Ukraine

T Kuemmerle, P Olofsson, O Chaskovskyy… - Global Change …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Land use is a critical factor in the global carbon cycle, but land‐use effects on carbon fluxes
are poorly understood in many regions. One such region is Eastern Europe and the former …

Land use change in Southern Romania after the collapse of socialism

T Kuemmerle, D Müller, P Griffiths, M Rusu - Regional Environmental …, 2009 - Springer
The drastic socio-economic and political changes that occurred after the breakdown of
socialism in Eastern Europe triggered widespread land use change, including cropland …

Carbon gains and recovery from degradation of forest biomass in European Union during 1990–2005

A Rautiainen, L Saikku, PE Kauppi - Forest Ecology and Management, 2010 - Elsevier
The net gain of carbon in European Union (EU) forest vegetation during 1990–2005 was
estimated at 360–400Tg CO2 year− 1 by analysing international data. This amount is at low …

Afforestation and reforestation in Romania: History, current practice and future perspectives

C Palaghianu, I Dutca - Reforesta, 2017 - journal.reforestationchallenges.org
Preserving forest legacy was an important objective throughout Romanian history and so is
today. Artificial forest regeneration (including both reforestation and afforestation) was …

Romanian legal management rules limit wood production in Norway spruce and beech forests

O Bouriaud, G Marin, L Bouriaud, D Hessenmöller… - Forest …, 2016 - Springer
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 …

Characteristics and drivers of forest cover change in the post-socialist era in Croatia: evidence from a mixed-methods approach

M Cvitanović, GA Blackburn… - Regional environmental …, 2016 - Springer
Extensive forests in Croatia represent an important biological and economic resource in
Europe. They are characterised by heterogeneity in forest management practices dating …

A spatial assessment of the forest carbon budget for Ukraine

M Lesiv, A Shvidenko, D Schepaschenko, L See… - … Adaptation Strategies for …, 2019 - Springer
The spatial representation of forest cover and forest parameters is a prerequisite for
undertaking a systems approach to the full and verified carbon accounting of forest …

Historical forest management in Romania is imposing strong legacies on contemporary forests and their management

C Munteanu, MD Nita, IV Abrudan… - Forest Ecology and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Historical forest management can heavily affect contemporary forest management and
conservation. Yet, relatively little is known about century-long changes in forests, and that …

A forest transition: Austrian carbon budgets 1830–2010

S Gingrich, C Lauk, T Kastner, F Krausmann… - Social ecology: Society …, 2016 - Springer
The concept of forest transitions was introduced by geographers in the 1990s to describe the
observation that forests regrow with industrialization in many parts of the world. We use the …