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Traditionally the purpose of National Forest Inventories (NFIs) has been to provide continuously updated information regarding the state of a given nation’s forest resources, including their timber volumes, species composition and sustainable development. But with increased international reporting requirements – to the FAO, the ITTO, the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Ministerial Conference Protecting Forest in Europe and other international bodies – the potential role of how NFIs can accurately respond to these requirements has received some considerable attention. Addressing the issue of how well countries are able to respond to current international reporting requirements, this book discusses the importance of comparable reporting, and the possible approaches for achieving comparability across Europe and globally. It includes country status reports from 37 countries, worldwide, and it discusses methodologies and techniques for a common reporting system. With its collection of inventories and detailed discussions on the current status and future needs of NFIs, this book provides an invaluable resource for anyone involved in developing, managing, monitoring or contributing to forest inventories, as well as to those who are researching or practising forest resource management.

Forest policy. --- Forest reserves. --- Forests. --- Forest policy --- Forest reserves --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Ecology --- Forestry --- Forest management areas --- Forest parks --- Forest preserves --- Forest protected areas --- Forests, National --- Forests, State --- Management areas, Forest --- National forests --- Parks, Forest --- Preserves, Forest --- Reserves, Forest --- State forests --- Forest management --- Forest resource policy --- Forests and forestry --- State and forestry --- Government policy --- Life sciences. --- Geographical information systems. --- Applied ecology. --- Forestry. --- Forestry management. --- Sustainable development. --- Life Sciences. --- Sustainable Development. --- Applied Ecology. --- Forestry Management. --- Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. --- Environmental Monitoring/Analysis. --- Natural monuments --- Natural resources conservation areas --- Protected areas --- Public lands --- National parks and reserves --- Economic policy

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Forest biodiversity is crucial to the ecological, economic, and social well-being of earth's civilisations. Unfortunately, however, forest biodiversity is threatened to a serious degree in nearly all countries. Therefore, many countries have agreed to be parties to international agreements focused on maintaining, restoring, and monitoring biodiversity; further, these countries have agreed to report to international bodies on forest biodiversity status and trends. NFIs are the primary source of large-scale information available for this purpose, but the large variety of definitions, protocols, sampling designs, and plot configurations used by NFIs makes comparable international reporting extremely difficult. This book presents the results of Working Group 3 of COST Action E43 in the development of harmonization techniques for common reporting of estimates of forest biodiversity indicators using NFI data. Harmonization tests were carried out on a large common data base containing raw NFI data from 13 European countries and the USA. With its collection of practical examples for the estimation of forest biodiversity indicators, it's a practical tool for anyone involved in forest inventories and in forest resource monitoring and management as well as for those involved in biodiversity assessment and reporting.

General ecology and biosociology --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Forestry --- biodiversiteit --- milieutechnologie --- bossen

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In many European countries, the importance of wood production has been declining over the last decades in favour of other forest functions. However, recent policy targets for bioenergy and emphasis on the contribution of forests to the bio-economy have sparked interest in availability and mobilisation of wood from the forest and triggered the development or improvement of forest projection systems to assess future wood availability under different scenarios. As a result, a variety of approaches to modelling future woody biomass supply are currently used, making the comparison of results difficult. Additionally, the lack of mutual understanding among supply experts and wood industry experts often leads to misunderstandings regarding the availability of woody biomass. The book provides a unique collection of structured and detailed descriptions of the projection systems used in Europe and North America and of how wood resources are assessed and monitored by national forest inventories. The reader will find contextualizing accounts of forests and the issues that triggered the development of each system disclosing the situation in countries where National Forest Inventories have recently been implemented but no such tools have been developed. Additionally, a whole chapter is dedicated to the description of the European level tools that can be used, including their advantages and limitations. Finally, it provides a discussion on the future challenges. This book is written for experts in the field of assessment and modelling of wood resources, private practitioners and public administration and decision-makers interested in deepening their knowledge about the projection systems used for officially reporting woody biomass availability in several European countries and North America. .

Economics --- General ecology and biosociology --- Biology --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Forestry --- Computer. Automation --- biomassa --- bosbouw --- bio-energie --- biologie --- economie --- informatica --- milieuzorg --- wiskunde --- milieutechnologie --- ingenieurswetenschappen --- bossen

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Traditionally the purpose of National Forest Inventories (NFIs) has been to provide continuously updated information regarding the state of a given nation's forest resources, including their timber volumes, species composition and sustainable development. But with increased international reporting requirements - to the FAO, the ITTO, the UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change, the Ministerial Conference Protecting Forest in Europe and other international bodies - the potential role of how NFIs can accurately respond to these requirements has received some considerable attention. Addressing the issue of how well countries are able to respond to current international reporting requirements, this book discusses the importance of comparable reporting, and the possible approaches for achieving comparability across Europe and globally. It includes country status reports from 37 countries, worldwide, and it discusses methodologies and techniques for a common reporting system. With its collection of inventories and detailed discussions on the current status and future needs of NFIs, this book provides an invaluable resource for anyone involved in developing, managing, monitoring or contributing to forest inventories, as well as to those who are researching or practising forest resource management.

Nature protection --- Geodesy. Cartography --- Measuring methods in physics --- Environmental protection. Environmental technology --- Forestry --- Production management --- Geography --- monitoring --- geodesie --- GIS (geografisch informatiesysteem) --- milieuzorg --- duurzame ontwikkeling --- milieutechnologie --- milieubeheer --- bossen --- milieuanalyse

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