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Introduction to Forest Resources Evaluation Study in China

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Resources Accounting in China

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Forest, an important resource to mankind, supports in a direct or indirect way the development of human economy and society with its thousands of material or non-material products. The forest is also the main object of the continental ecological system. The successful management of forest inheritance plays a vital role in maintaining the global environment, conserving the other related resources and guaranteeing the sustainable development of economy and society. Therefore, it has become an un-neglectable subject for many countries and the international organizations in the world to conduct an evaluation on the forest resource, made to include them into the national economical evaluation system. Under the overall organization of The State Science and Technology Commission for first-phase achievement has been made on the study of forest resources evaluation, which started in 1993. For the convenience of the domestic and international communication and the successful following research work, the achievement of our first-phase work would be introduced.

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Hou, Y., Wang, Q., Yu, L. (1999). Introduction to Forest Resources Evaluation Study in China. In: Lanza, A. (eds) Resources Accounting in China. Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (FEEM) Series on Economics, Energy and Environment, vol 12. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4836-8_11

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