Mišrių miškų tvarkymas. Rizikų mažinimas, atsistatymo didinimas

Abstract

Sumforest is an ERA-NET initiative, which objective is to step up the cooperation and coordination of research activities carried out in the Member States and Associated States of the European Union through the networking of research activities and the mutual opening of national and regional research programmes. The ERA-NET scheme contributes to making a reality of the European Research Area by improving the coherence and coordination across Europe of such research programmes. Sumforest - that stands for Sustainable forest management, Multifunctional Forestry and European Forest Policy - contributes significantly to the construction of a fully operational European Research Area on Sustainable and Multifunctional Forestry. Today, the important climatic, environmental, socioeconomic and land use changes pose new challenges for meeting the multifunctional demands on European forest resources, and for their sustainable management. In the European Union, the current forest policy environment is fragmented, complex and sometimes contradictory. In addition, European forest research is still fragmented and coordination of research activities carried out at regional and national levels is urgently needed. Furthermore, European forests consist of a wide diversity of forest ecosystems and tree species that are affected differently by climate and land use changes. In this context, the aim of this transnational ERA-NET is to reinforce scientific cooperation on European forests, which will also build new cooperation arrangements with EU neighborhood regions, aiming at a reduced fragmentation and maximized impact of research activities on sustainable forest management and multifunctional forestry. The increasing challenges related to the understanding and implementation of Sustainable and Multifunctional Forest Management cannot be solved on a national level, but a coordinated effort to pull together all available resources on a regional, European and international level must be undertaken.