The concept of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) and its tools.
The functions of forest.
Different level of forest planning in Italy.
Stages of a land plan and of a traditional forest plan
Target and actors of forest planning
Stage I: data collection; mandatory knoledge about environmental socio-economic factors
Forest compartments and other basic territorial units of a forest under management.
How to divide a forest ownership into compartments
The concept of evenaged normal forest.. Rotation. Criteria to choose the rotation. Yield tables.
Methods to calculate the allowable cut of evenaged normal forest. The area methods for the management of coppices.
The Austrian methods, the Paulsen-Hundeshagen principle, the Masson formula, the Patrone formula.
The management of the normal unevenaged forest. The reverse j shaped curve; the cutting cycle. How calculate the allowable cut.
Management methods which do noto refer to a normal forest model: the silvicultural method; the control method.
International framewotk of forest planning. : international framework convention on climate change; convention on biological diversity; convention to combat desertification; the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe; EU Habitat and Birds Directives.
The main tools of land planning in Italy.
The Environmental Impact Assesment.. The Strategical Environmental Assesment..
Forest planning in designated protected areas and Natura 2000 sites.

Peter Bettinger, Kevin Boston, Jacely Siry, Donald Grebner
Forest management Planning
Academic Press, 2017