https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/7494 IUGFS - Capítulos de Monografías 2026-04-14T22:55:02Z https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/73637 Sustainable development as a societal process aimed at securing sustainability is challenging. To encourage the necessary knowledge production and learning in different social-ecological contexts requires a place-based networking research infrastructure that involves multiple academic disciplines and non-academic actors. Long-term socio-ecological research (LTSER) platform is one approach with ~80 initiatives globally. To encourage transdisciplinary learning through evaluation we defined a normative model for ideal performance at both local platform and network levels. Four surveys were then sent out to 67 self-reported LTSER platforms. Focusing on the network level, we analyzed the spatial distribution of both long-term ecological monitoring sites within LTSER platforms, and LTSER platforms across the European continent. Finally, narrative biographies about 18 LTSER platforms in different stages of development were analyzed. While the siting of LTSER platforms represented biogeographical regions well, variations in land-use history and governance arrangements were poorly represented. Ecosystem research (72%) dominated social system research (28%). Maintenance of a platform required 3–5 staff members, was based mainly on national funding and had 1–2 years of future funding secured. Networking with other landscape approach concepts was common. Individually, and as a network, LTSER platforms have good potential for transdisciplinary knowledge production and learning about sustainability challenges. To benefit from the large range of variation among Pan-European social-ecological systems, we encourage collaboration among different landscape approach concepts such as LTSER platform and Model Forest, ecological reference landscapes like zapovedniks as well as traditional systems for landscape stewardship. 2019-01-01T00:00:00Z https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/23449 This chapter represents a review of the state of the art of the techniques and methodologies described and used in Lizarralde et af., 2008. Several issues have been reviewed and updated, while the work area and most of data remain equal,as an exercise of methodology review. Assessment of C02 sequestration on wood products starts to raise importance when measuring the global sequestration in a forest. In this work, a more accurate estimation of C0.2 on wood products is proposed,taking into account not only the volume but the useful life of those products. In order to estímate this carbon uptake and sequestration, innovation in forestry reveals new technologies and methodologies such as forest inventory using LiDAR technology or advanced modelling techniques. Besides,a new accountability and legal framework is added to review the state of the art of this particular issue. With this new information and knowing yield data of transformation of these products in final commercial products, the sequestration rate of each product and its useful life, we will be able to calculate the global sequestration of annual cuttings in an important and well-known forest in Spain. 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/23448 In this chapter, we describe alternative ways in which forests and forestry can help to mítigate climate change, along with the potential impact of these activities. The three carbon storage compartments should be considered inall impact estimates. Carbon content in living biomass is easily estimated via species-specific equations or by applying factors to oven-dry biomass weights (e.g.,lbañez et al.,2002, Herrero et al.,2011,Castaño and Bravo, 2012).Litter carbon content has been analysed in many studies on primary forest productivity, though information regarding the influence of forest management on litter carbon content is less abundant (Blanco et al., 2006). In the last decade,efforts have been made to assess soil carbon in forests, but studies on the effect of forest management on soils show discrepancies (Lindner and Karjalainen,2007).Hoover (2011), for example,found no difference in forest floor carbon stocks among stands subjected to partial or complete harvest treatments in the United States. 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/23447 Carbon stored in forest systems is of great interest from a management point of view since, on the one hand,it is easily modified through silvilcultural practices (e.g.,rotation length,thinning, etc.), while,on the other hand, it affects the mean lifespan of wood products.In the Mediterranean area, the role of forest as carbon sinks is particularly significant since usually ecosystem services provided by forests are frequently of greater value than their direct productions.Therefore,quantifying the carbon balance in forests ís one of the main challenges if carbon fixation is to be considered amongst the objectives of forest management (Montero et al., 2005). 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/23446 The objective of this chapter is to present sorne of the studies currently being carried out in Spain and Portugal which are concerned with the possibility of estimating the amount of carbon flxed by two of the main oak species in the lberian Peninsula; rebollo oak (Quercus pyrenaica Willd.) and cork oak (Quercus suber L.). Three different methodological approaches have been used. The first approach is to use growth models to evaluate the carbon sequestration in both cork and wood over the life of a cork oak plantation.This approach has been applied both for Spain and Portugal. The second approach involves using a yield table as a tool to estímate the carbon sequestration in Quercus pyrenaica forests based on Spanish National Forest lnventories. In a third approach, data from a network of plots is used to estímate the carbon sequestration in pure and mixed Quercus pyrenaica forests. The application of these different methodologies would allow us to forecast and improve the carbon sequestration in lberian oak forests as well as increase our understanding of their dynamics. 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z