Roman urban wood an opportunity

Title : Roman urban wood an opportunity

Abstract:

Urban trees wood: An unknown resource: Wood is made of carbon polymers. Security implies urban trees management. Wood is necessarily produced, and must be disposed of. Actually ends, mainly, in landfills. Here is destroyed. Trees main benefit reducing atmospheric Carbon, is nullified. Planting these trees for climate change control was useless. To prevent this process their urban wood should be used in solid ways. Rome is very rich in green areas and tress. Then may have an urban wood economy. Portable saw mills new ideas for interior and exterior design garden parks and playground furniture wooden house art and crafts educational and therapeutic activities made with urban wood may help. Research along all phases, from selecting fast growing carbon stock accumulating plants up to landscape projects arboriculture methods design communication and regulation is needed. S.A.P. imported in 1995 a tool that converts a simple machine saw in a portable saw mill. Since then S.A.P. did pilot projects in all possible application fields. Conclusion: Problem: Urban Wood produced in urban forests management rapidly returns his carbon to atmosphere as CO2. Opportunity: Urban Wood multifunctional economy: less pollution, more creativity, more jobs pilot projects are needed.

Biography:

Franco Paolinelli was born in Rome, Italy, on May 8, 1954. He graduated in Forestry from the University of Florence in 1980. He further pursued advanced studies, earning a Master's degree in Urban Forestry from the University of Toronto (1984), a Master's degree in Social Agriculture from the University of Tuscia (2006), and completed studies in Integral Ecology at the Pontifical Gregorian University (2024–2025). Alongside his professional work as an urban tree consultant, he has participated in development projects across Africa and the Middle East. In the early 1990s, he founded S.A.P. (Silviculture, Agriculture, and Landscape), a non-governmental organization dedicated to environmental sustainability. Since 1995, S.A.P. has been promoting the "Roman Urban Trees Wood" initiative, inspired by the American Urban Wood Network, through production projects and educational workshops.