Webinar with MSc Mediterranean Foresty students(https://www.medfor.eu/). 23rd June 2020
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We have produced this catalogue in collaboration with the Catalan Wood and Furniture Guild and the Catalan Institute of Wood (Incafust), with the aim of showing the great diversity and relevance of the valuable broadleaves (hardwoods) timber transformation industry in Catalonia (Spain). We also introduce the main species under this category in Catalan forests and […]
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The 7th project Newsletter, corresponding to March 2020, is already available here. We present the progress made in the last 6 months. You may also check the past issues and subscribe.
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This protocol aims at facilitating the assessment of standing timber quality, as well as the possible industrial destinations, of the main valuable broadleaved species, especially oak, ash, maple, cherry and chestnut, but also walnut, service tree and pear tree. We aim at creating a tool to help forest owners and practitioners responsible of forest management […]
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To prepare this document we have reviewed the legal provisions and documents at European, national, regional and local levels, which affect the management and planning of Mediterranean sub-humid forests. Based on this review, we have made a proposal of possible aspects to be modified in the regulations and planning instruments to facilitate the adaptation to […]
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The economic sustainability of adaptive forest management depends to a large extent of the demand of timber products. We have prepared a database of companies working in European Mediterranean areas (Southern and Eastern Spain, Italy, Slovenia and Croatia) that transform timber of broadleaved species present in Mediterranean sub-humid forests: chestnut, oak, ash, maple, cherry, pear […]
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Míriam Piqué (CTFC) presented MixForChange at the final conference of LIFE The Green Link project in Barcelona, 17th February 2020. During this technical-scientific conference the main project outcomes were introduced and there was a discussion on the challenges and opportunities of forest restoration and management in Mediterranean conditions in the context of climage change. The […]
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This cartography aims to show the vulnerability to climate change of the Mediterranean sub-humid mixed forests. This work has been done at the level of Catalonia, where these forests extend for circa 152,000 ha. The two main climate change related impacts in these conditions are: Water restriction: it is expresses as the comparison between the […]
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On November 27th we conducted the first specialisation course in climate change adaptation strategies in mixed sub-Mediterranean forests (Project Action E4.2). The participants were 20 students from the forestry degree of University of Lleida. The course was done in the protected area of Poblet (Tarragona). Mr Xavier Buqueras, forest engineer of this protected area, explained […]
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Míriam Piqué (CTFC) participated on 20th November in Valladolid (Spain) in a stakeholders’ workshop of the EU-funded REFORM (REsilience of FORest Mixtures) project. This project has as main aim to identify the most optimal composition and management of mixed forests in order to reduce natural and socio-economic impacts of climate change. Míriam participated in the […]
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