The triannual IUFRO Wind and Trees Conference organised by IUFRO Unit 8.0.3.06 was held in Castelfranco Veneto from 20 to 23 June 2023. The meeting was hosted by the University…
Caught between a rising demand for timber, the difficulty of meeting national carbon reduction targets and pressure from environmentalists who have secured a ban on all timber harvesting in native…
The FIRE-RES project aims to provide the EU with the capacity to manage the projected increase in forest fires under a harsher climate. It will deploy a series of innovation…
After a period of relative quiet over the last couple of decades strong damaging winds returned to northern and north-western parts of Europe. A series of strong and even severe…
Experts from all over Europe join forces to build a more fire-resilient EU The website of the Horizon2020 project FIRE-RES goes online today Extreme Wildfire Events a major threat for…
Figure 1: Tropical cyclone activity in 2018 showing increase activity in the North Atlantic. From (Blunden and Arndt, 2019) Wind damage to forests is a large and increasing threat in…
Under the scope of the MARCSMAN project, a PhD study focusing on snow and wind damage in actively managed Norway spruce forests in Norway has been started by Peter Zubkoc…
