Papers by Nichiforel Liviu
Land Use Policy , 2018
Private forests are widespread in Europe providing a range of ecosystem services of significant v... more Private forests are widespread in Europe providing a range of ecosystem services of significant value to society, and there are calls for novel policies to enhance their provision and to face the challenges of environmental changes. Such policies need to acknowledge the importance of private forests, and importantly they need to be based on a deep understanding of how property rights held by private forest owners vary across Europe. We collected and analysed data on the content of property rights based on formal legal requirements existing in 31 European jurisdictions. To allow a comparison across jurisdictions, we constructed an original Property Rights Index for Forestry encompassing five rights domains (access, withdrawal, management, exclusion and alienation). We documented substantial variation of the private forest owners' rights, and notably to i) make decisions in operational management and the formulation of management goals, ii) withdraw timber resources from their forest, and iii) exclude others from the use of forest resources. We identified broad relations between the scope for decision making of private forest owners and jurisdictions' former socio-political background and geographical distribution. The variation in the content of property rights has implications for the implementation of international environmental policies, and stresses the need for tailored policy instruments, when addressing European society's rural development, the bioeconomy, climate change mitigation measures and nature protection strategies.
Finding out the type of correlations between variables and the accurate calculation of their para... more Finding out the type of correlations between variables and the accurate calculation of their parameters are important issues which ensures the validity of the model for practical application . The paper comes up with some restrictions imposed to statistical models frequently used in forestry. The implications of transformations and of multicollinearity were emphasized in common sense, but also in special case of the regression equation used for the determination of tree volume.
Percepţii ale inginerilor silvici cu privire la vulnerabilităţile şi riscurile ecosistemelor fore... more Percepţii ale inginerilor silvici cu privire la vulnerabilităţile şi riscurile ecosistemelor forestiere în contextul schimbărilor climatice M. Mutu, L. Bouriaud, L. Nichiforel, M. Drăgoi, C. Duduman, C. Palaghianu Mutu M., Bouriaud L., Nichiforel L., Drăgoi M., Duduman C., Palaghianu C., 2014. Perceptions of forestry engineers on vulnerabilities and risks of forest ecosystems to climate change. Bucov. For. 14(1): 51-59, 2014.
The study has been carried out in stands that have been damaged more or less by uncontrolled cutt... more The study has been carried out in stands that have been damaged more or less by uncontrolled cuttings. These stands are located in the Bistrita watershed. The study has shown and analysed the consequences of uncontrolled cuttings by taking into account the loss of increment, which occurs in stands affected by illegal cuttings.
The presentation it’s about FP7 FUNDIVEurope project - Functional significance of forest biodiver... more The presentation it’s about FP7 FUNDIVEurope project - Functional significance of forest biodiversity in Europe. The research platforms from FunDivEUROPE project framework has the aim, the covering a big range of ecological conditions, the analysis of forest and management type from Europe. The USV’s team helped at processing and sampling protocol of dendrochronological dates which will be used in quantification of stands productivity from sample plots established in all exploratory sites from Europe.
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