Beschreibung:
The book presents the current state and good practices of national forest inventories in monitoring wood resources and demonstrates pathways for harmonisation and improved common reporting. Beyond a general overview over availability and use of wood resources in different countries, it provides a unique collection of original contributions from national forest inventory experts with in-depth descriptions of current NFI methods in assessing wood availability and wood use in European countries, and selected countries from America and Asia.
Includes in-depth descriptions of current National Forest Inventory (NFI) methods for monitoring the availability and use of wood resources from virtually all European countries, as well as selected countries in America and Asia
Chapter 1 Introduction.- Chapter 2. Comparison of Wood Resource Assessment in National Forest Inventories.- Chapter 3. Harmonisation of information on the potential supply of wood resources.- Chapter 4. Progresses in the harmonised assessment of availability and use of wood resources.- Chapter 5 to approx. 30 Reports from countries.- Appendix.- Index.