Author(s): Henriques, Maria Manuel Marques Freire Cardoso Laboreiro
Date: 2010
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/5363
Origin: Repositório da UTL
Subject(s): multiple use; sustainable forest management; forest certification; forest perimeter; forestry regime
Mestrado em Engenharia Florestal e dos Recursos Naturais - Instituto Superior de Agronomia
The Cabeça Gorda and Salvada forest is an area approximately 320 hectares of pine, oaks, eucalyptus, scrub, and grassland, under public administration and subject to partial forestry regime since 1960. In 2009 an agreement was signed between the National Forest Authority and the two owners, the parish councils of Cabeça Gorda and Salvada, in order to transfer management responsibility and administration from the first organization to the other two. This thesis is a contribution to establish a framework to multifunctional forest management of that area whose primary function is to protect water and soil and provide recreation conditions to the populations living in the surroundings. Some proposals are presented: lines of action considering the different functions of the forest such as protection, conservation, recreation, landscape service, production of wood and non-wood products as well as social and educational activities. Forest management systems certification requirements from Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC), have been tested as an exercise to characterize responsible (sustainable) forest management under the conditions of the Cabeça Gorda and Salvada forest. Several measures which are deemed essential to achieve sustainable forest management in the study area are presented.
