From the experience of LIFE+ ManFor C.BD to the Manual of Best Practices in Sustainable Forest Management

This volume should be interpreted as a manual of best practices for sustainable forest management deriving from the experience of the proj-ect LIFE09ENV/IT/000078 ManFor C.BD coordinated by the NationalResearch Council through the Institute of Agro-environmental andForest Biology (CNR-IBAF). The other Project partners are: the Councilfor Agricultural Research and Economics (CREA), the University ofMolise (UNIMOL), the Slovenian Forestry Institute (SFI) and theregions of Veneto and Molise. In addition, the National Centre for ForestBiodiversity of Verona and the Regional Office to biodiversity of Casteldi Sangro of the Italian National Forest Service (CFS), as well as theSlovenian Forest Service (SFS) collaborated to the project. This manualconsists of several individual articles dealing with specific issues relatedto the project. These articles are conceptually organized into five cate-gories that from the description of the project and of its activities arriveat providing operative indications for forestry operators.