Climate Change Impact Assessment on the Temporary Transport Infrastructure

Abstract:

Global warming is already impacting the activities of many sectors of the economy. We studied this influence on forestry, particularly, temporary road infrastructure used for logging in winter. The goal of the paper is to investigate the relationship between the wood removal volumes and timing of operations temporary infrastructure in the different climate zones. We tested hypotheses for the dependence of wood removal on: a) annual allowable cut; b) road density; c) road density except wetlands.