Is it possible to carry out a forest district according to law 227/2001?

Abstract

The forest politics of the European union, as the politics of intervention inagriculture, has recently had profound modifications. The most important new proposalsaffecting forestry are in the Agenda 2000 proposal which has been drawn up with to EUexpansion.The forests can explicate a strategic role regarding social objectives such asproductive, protective and recreational functions. In this scenario, territorial andenvironmental productions and amenities are the main functions of forest lands. Itdoesn’t mean that wood can not be harvested, but this scenario is strongly dependent onthe territorial organisation of forest functions. With this approach, forest managementregime and forests enterprise aims at supplying multiple forest functions at stand level.Each forest is multifunctional.Here we try to resume the main issues of forest policy throughout the last ten years,underlying the role of forest activity. The national legislator has individualized in the socalled“Rural District” the tool of planning and management of multifunctionalagriculture. This study intends to in prominence the real possibility to constitute a forestdistrict, identifiable with a specific territory where the forests characterize productiveand social activities.Concluding this study verifies the possibility establishing of a forest district inTuscany regional laws and rules which can finances forest activities have been examined.