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National Forest Inventories

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Wood resources are a long standing and important political issue. First established at local and then at national level, information about wood resources were collated at international level by FAO from 1948 onwards. The Rio Earth Summit in 1992 and the policy at European Union level stressed the requirement for the sustainable management of these wood resources. National Forest Inventories (NFIs) are the main source of information for describing and quantifying these wood resources. At European level NFIs worked on a harmonisation methodology to make data comparable. In this chapter the harmonisation process developed with the support of the COST Office is described. An important output of this COST Action is the provision by NFIs of country reports detailing their way of working in terms of calculating wood resources estimations. The content of the book is also briefly described in this first chapter, including the land coverage of the 40 countries that have provided a country report demonstrating the international reach of this publication.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. European Commission, JRC-IES, Ispra, Italy

    Claude Vidal & Ola Sallnäs

  2. French Ministry of Agriculture, Agrofood and Forestry, Paris, France

    Claude Vidal

  3. Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Uppsala, Sweden

    Ola Sallnäs

  4. Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Johnstown Castle Estate, Co. Wexford, Ireland

    John Redmond

  5. National Institute for Agriculture Research, INIA-CIFOR, Madrid, Spain

    Iciar Alberdi & Laura Hernández

  6. Centro de Estudos Florestais, Instituto Superior de Agronomia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

    Susana Barreiro

  7. Federal Research and Training Centre for Forests, Natural Hazards and Landscape (BFW), Vienna, Austria

    Klemens Schadauer

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    Claude Vidal

  2. Forestry Research Centre, National Institute for Agriculture Research, INIA-CIFOR, Madrid, Spain

    Iciar A. Alberdi

  3. Forestry Research Centre, National Institute for Agriculture Research, INIA-CIFOR, Madrid, Spain

    Laura Hernández Mateo

  4. Forest Service, Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Johnstown Castle Estate, Wexford, Ireland

    John J. Redmond

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Vidal, C. et al. (2016). Introduction. In: Vidal, C., Alberdi, I., Hernández Mateo, L., Redmond, J. (eds) National Forest Inventories. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44015-6_1

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