The paper presents the importance of research which characterizes the natural forest structure for the forest management. The lessons learned in these particular forest ecosystems can be integrated by the forest management objectives, in order to increase the sustainability of this type of resources. The project NATFORMAN was focused on the structure of the natural forest, thus research methodo...

As an inevitable by-product of the biofuel industry, glycerol is becoming an attractive feedstock for biorefinery due to its abundance, low price and high degree of reduction. Converting crude glycerol into value-added products is important to increase the economic viability of the biofuel industry. Metabolic engineering of industrial strains to improve its performance and to enlarge the produc...

cies in the range of 28% (electric energy generated/total energy available in the wood fuel used) (Timmons et al. 2007a). This low level of efficiency suggests a natural fit for colocating industrial operations requiring heat with biomass-fired electricity generating facilities. Bioenergy facilities have a long history in the Region. Wood residues from integrated sawmill operations have been us...

a Department of Forest Engineering Resources and Management, College of Forestry, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR 97331, USA b Pacific Forestry Centre, Canadian Forest Service, Natural Resources Canada, Victoria, British Columbia V8Z 1M5, Canada c Integrated Remote Sensing Studio, Department of Forest Resources Management, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1...

An important element of resource management and conservation is an understanding of the tradeoffs between marketed products such as timber and measures of environmental quality such as biodiversity. In this paper, we develop an integrated economic – ecological spatial optimization model. The integrated model incorporates dynamic forest sector harvesting, oil and gas sector development, coarse f...

Lignocellulosic biorefineries are the best non-petroleum alternatives for a sustainable development. In the biorefinery process design, it is important to implement an algorithm that allows the systematic generation and the evaluation of energy conversion chains and making comparison of different pathways, ranking them according to different performance criteria. To achieve these goals, a metho...

One of the objectives of Forest Dragon 2 project is the generation of a forest cover change map between 1990s and 2000s for Northeast China based on ERS-1/2 tandem data and ENVISAT ASAR data. For the 1990s’ map, an automatic and seasonal-adaptive retrieval of forest biomass method was used to produce a forest biomass map based on the ERS tandem interferometric coherence. The biomass map was int...

Asterisk indicates corresponding author (when not the first author). Locations indicated for first authors only. Mauricio Acuna, Cristian Palma, Wenbin Cui, David Martell *, Andres Weintraub Universidad de Chile, Santiago “Integrated timber harvest and fire management planning” Harvest planners often consider potential fire losses and timber production plans can influence fire management but mo...