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DOI	10.1016/j.foreco.2021.119655
	Cultural values and forest dynamics: The Italian forests in the last 150 years
	Agnoletti, Mauro; Piras, Francesco; Venturi, Martina; Santoro, Antonio
通讯作者	Agnoletti, M (corresponding author), Univ Florence, Dept Agr Food Environm & Forestry DAGRI, Via San Bonaventura 13, I-50145 Florence, Italy.
来源期刊	FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT
ISSN	0378-1127
EISSN	1872-7042
出版年	2022
卷号	503
英文摘要	In the context of the worldwide increasing interest on the role of forests for global warming and biodiversity targets, there is a growing tendency to consider the need to increase not only the extension of forests, but also their degree of naturalness. These indications have been recently included also in important political documents such as the European Green Deal enacted by the European Union, affecting 28 member states of the European continent, also with the aim of fighting deforestation and desertification. In Italy national and regional forest inventories, as well as planning documents, classify more and more forests as natural or seminatural. These indications often result in the limitation of traditional silvicultural methods, by environmental and landscape restrictions, orienting forest management towards favoring more natural forests structures. These policies are often threatening the conservation of the cultural features of the Italian forests. The paper provides an analysis of the evolution of forests in Italy during the last 150 years through official forest inventories and various investigations. This study shows that from 4.215.000 ha of forest in 1888 we have today about 11.778.000 ha, with an increase of 7.563.000 ha and an annual growth rate of 59.551 ha. The present Italian forests can be described partly as derived from those already mapped in 1936 and entirely managed, although not regularly, and secondary forests developed on abandoned land, extending for 5.279.895 ha. The results show that human influence has affected extension, density, structure and species composition of Italian forests in all the geographical areas of the country, independently from altitude, latitude or climate conditions. There are no dangers of deforestation, but rather an uncontrolled increase of forests and there is no need of further afforestation but rather to better manage the existing ones. Moreover, cultural forests, meaning forest shaped and managed by human activities through times, are more and more reducing their extensions together with the material and immaterial heritage associated to them. Considering the third pillar of Sustainable Forest Management in Europe, the one on social and cultural values, defined by MCPFE in 2003, the paper proposes the definition of cultural forests as a new category in forest conservation and an important part of the biocultural heritage associated to the rural territory. Furthermore, the paper stresses the need of historical investigations, for the better understanding of the features of the forest ecosystems and for the identification of the values to be considered in forest restoration.
英文关键词	Forest history Ecological successions Cultural forests Sustainable forest management Traditional forest related knowledge
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	hybrid
收录类别	SCI-E ; SSCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000706725700002
WOS关键词	PAST LAND-USE ; SPECIES COMPOSITION ; USE LEGACIES ; LANDSCAPE ; BIODIVERSITY ; AGRICULTURE ; MANAGEMENT ; VEGETATION ; MOUNTAINS ; PATTERNS
WOS类目	Forestry
WOS研究方向	Forestry
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/363256
作者单位	[Agnoletti, Mauro; Piras, Francesco; Venturi, Martina; Santoro, Antonio] Univ Florence, Dept Agr Food Environm & Forestry DAGRI, Via San Bonaventura 13, I-50145 Florence, Italy
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Agnoletti, Mauro,Piras, Francesco,Venturi, Martina,et al. Cultural values and forest dynamics: The Italian forests in the last 150 years[J],2022,503.
APA	Agnoletti, Mauro,Piras, Francesco,Venturi, Martina,&Santoro, Antonio.(2022).Cultural values and forest dynamics: The Italian forests in the last 150 years.FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT,503.
MLA	Agnoletti, Mauro,et al."Cultural values and forest dynamics: The Italian forests in the last 150 years".FOREST ECOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT 503(2022).