The question of protecting forests under an international binding convention has challenged nations like few other environmental issues and dominated much of the "United Nations Conference on Environment and Development" (UNCED) in 1992, where countries ultimately adopted a set of...

In order to monitor and report progress towards sustainable forest management (SFM), the third Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE) adopted a set of pan-European criteria and indicators in Lisbon in 1998. The criteria and indicators cover economical, ecological...

Forest management recognizes the selection of tree species as an essential aspect of climate change adaptation. Uncertainties exist, however, regarding the assessment of average and extreme climatic conditions to which tree species can adapt. This study discusses the feasibility of analyzing oak...