Published in Scientific Papers. Series A. Agronomy, Vol. LXV, Issue 2
Written by Cristian Mihai ENESCU
Romania has a great tradition in afforestation of diverse categories of lands, including the degraded terrains. Afforestation projects are made in accordance with the technical norms approved by normative acts. In the last two decades, even if there were hundreds of afforestation projects, the forested area didn’t increase significantly. This was mainly due to the fact that the targeted areas were small and due to the very bureaucratic process. In the perspective of upcoming funds from the European Union, through the dedicated component of the Romanian Recovery and Resilience Plan, it is expected that an area of 56.700 hectares of diverse lands, other that the ones already included in the national forest fund, would be forested until 2026. In this perspective, several reforms and investments are planned. Among them, a greater flexibility of the normative acts is envisaged, especially for lands situated outside the forest fund. In this context, the present paper analyzed the proposals contained in the afforestation technical norms corresponding to group no. 121, by introducing additional criteria. In AHP, three scenarios were considered. Out of the six species recommended by the technical norms, Tree of Heaven and black locust proved to be the most preferred species for afforestation of household dumps consisting of demolition materials mixed with organic materials.
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