SPECIAL SESSION - Forest Bioeconomy in Romania: present and future prospects

This session aims to bring together Romanian and international scholars whose research contributes to our understanding of developing a sustainable, circular bioeconomy. This session is interdisciplinary, bringing together scholars from various fields ranging from forest management, biodiversity conservation, innovation studies to policy and governance. Most inputs to this session will come from authors involved in the forthcoming book-project: "The plan 'B' for Romania's forests and society", but other scholars whose research is broadly connected to the interdisciplinary topic of "forest-bioeconomy" are warmly welcome to join our session.

• forest ecosystem functions
• dendroecology and dendrochronology
• effects of environmental changes on forest growth
• biodiversity conservation
• natural hazards and risk management
• forests and climate change

• forest vegetation management
• natural and artificial silvicultural systems
• restoration of degraded sites
• impacts of air pollution on forest ecosystems
• physiological and genetic aspects of tree diseases
• forest insect and disease survey

• forest resources inventory and monitoring
• forest management planning
• land-use planning and landscape ecology
• remote sensing technology
• forest mensuration and modeling
• hydrologic processes and watershed management
• statistical methods, mathematics and computer technology in forest biometrics

• environmental policy and governance
• social, institutional and economic aspects of forestry
• forest law and environmental legislation
• valuation of ecosystem services and carbon markets

• harvesting and transportation engineering
• forest operations management
• harvesting and processing systems
• wood and non-wood forest products and their utilization
• bioenergy production systems