The Mediterranean forest suffers from a lack of management due to its peculiarities: low productivity, low economic profitability of its use, lack of incentives, lack of timber industry and different types of ownership, among others. This situation affects its biodiversity and the ecosystem services it provides. That is why science demands management aimed at guaranteeing challenges such as its survival, resilience and adaptation to climate change.

If we were today to climb into the time machine that H.G. Wells imagined, we could, for example, travel back to the 19^th century to witness the dawn of modern science. In those days, the boundaries between science and society were not as clean-cut as they are now, and scientific research was greatly influenced by public interests and needs.