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Italian National Forest Inventory—Methods and Results of the Third Survey

Inventario Nazionale delle Foreste e dei Serbatoi Forestali di Carbonio—Metodi e Risultati della Terza Indagine

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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)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxii
  2. The Italian Forest Inventory in Brief

    • Patrizia Gasparini, Giancarlo Papitto
    Pages 1-15Open Access
  3. Definitions and Sampling Design

    • Patrizia Gasparini, Antonio Floris
    Pages 17-48Open Access
  4. Land Use and Land Cover Photointerpretation

    • Maria Rizzo, Patrizia Gasparini
    Pages 49-66Open Access
  5. Field Assessment—Survey Protocols and Data Collection

    • Antonio Floris, Lucio Di Cosmo, Maria Rizzo, Amato Patrone
    Pages 67-101Open Access
  6. Procedures for the Estimation of Forest Inventory Quantities

    • Maria Michela Dickson, Diego Giuliani
    Pages 103-118Open Access
  7. Plot Level Estimation Procedures and Models

    • Lucio Di Cosmo
    Pages 119-149Open Access
  8. Area and Characteristics of Italian Forests

    • Patrizia Gasparini, Lucio Di Cosmo, Antonio Floris
    Pages 151-325Open Access
  9. Forest Management and Productive Function

    • Lucio Di Cosmo, Patrizia Gasparini
    Pages 327-389Open Access
  10. Biodiversity and Protected Wooded Lands

    • Lucio Di Cosmo, Antonio Floris
    Pages 391-446Open Access
  11. Forest Health

    • Maria Rizzo, Patrizia Gasparini
    Pages 447-468Open Access
  12. Protective Function and Primary Designated Management Objective

    • Antonio Floris, Lucio Di Cosmo
    Pages 469-502Open Access
  13. Forest Carbon Stock

    • Lucio Di Cosmo, Patrizia Gasparini, Antonio Floris
    Pages 503-543Open Access
  14. Changes of Italian Forests Over Time Captured by the National Forest Inventories

    • Patrizia Gasparini, Giovanni Tabacchi
    Pages 545-568Open Access
  15. Back Matter

    Pages 569-576

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

  • Centro di ricerca Foreste e Legno, CREA, Trento, Italy

    Patrizia Gasparini, Lucio Di Cosmo, Antonio Floris

  • 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

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