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Presents the third Italian national forest inventory
Provides an up-to-date picture of Italian forests
Bilingual book, contents are available in English and Italian language
Part of the book series: Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering (SPRTRCIENG)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This open access book deals with the methods and the results of the third Italian national forest inventory (INFC2015). Arma dei Carabinieri is entrusted with the realisation of the National Forest Inventory and with the decisions about the aims of the survey and data treatment. National forest inventories produce statistically based information on forests over country areas. Such information is used either at subnational or at supranational level in a great number of spheres and processes, included possibility to depict the status of the world forests. Italy conducted its first forest inventory in 1985 and in 2001 a permanent national forest inventory was launched to have periodically updated statistics. Due to the growing concern about the environment and especially the climate change, estimating forests carbon pools was a stated main objective and it was accordingly named Italian National Inventory of Forest and Forest Carbon Pools (INFC). The book begins with a description of the general organisation, the definitions, the methods and the estimation procedures. It proceeds showing the main estimates produced by INFC2015, in tables that are given in the book chapters. The estimates are presented through texts that introduce the subject matter, explain the way the related variables were surveyed and comment on the main outcomes with the help of graphics. The estimates presented include forest area, management and production, biodiversity and protection, forest health, protective and socio-economics functions. Role of forest in the carbon balance was analysed in a specific Chapter, as this is important for its role in the climate change mitigation. The book ends providing an understanding of the current dynamics of Italian forests by comparing the estimates obtained from INFC2005 and INFC2015, the last two national surveys.
Keywords
- Open Access
- CREA
- Arma dei Carabinieri
- Forestry Sciences
- Forests Assessment
- Biodiversity
- Forest Health
- Climate Change Mitigation
Editors and Affiliations
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Centro di ricerca Foreste e Legno, CREA, Trento, Italy
Patrizia Gasparini, Lucio Di Cosmo, Antonio Floris
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Arma dei Carabinieri, Comando Unità Forestali Ambientali e Agroalimentari, Roma, Italy
Davide De Laurentis
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Italian National Forest Inventory—Methods and Results of the Third Survey
Book Subtitle: Inventario Nazionale delle Foreste e dei Serbatoi Forestali di Carbonio—Metodi e Risultati della Terza Indagine
Editors: Patrizia Gasparini, Lucio Di Cosmo, Antonio Floris, Davide De Laurentis
Series Title: Springer Tracts in Civil Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98678-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
License: CC BY
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98677-3Published: 30 September 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-98680-3Published: 30 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-98678-0Published: 29 September 2022
Series ISSN: 2366-259X
Series E-ISSN: 2366-2603
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXII, 576
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 99 illustrations in colour
Topics: Forestry, Environmental Management, Environment, general