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Forestry in Switzerland has, since the eighteenth century, been characterised by an intensive use of forests and wood resources. At the same time, it has become more widely accepted that the over-exploitation and clear-cutting of forests in the alpine and mountainous parts of the country during the first half of the nineteenth century led to debris flows and floods that caused extensive damage in the lower parts of the country.

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  1. Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research WSL, Birmensdorf, Switzerland

    Adrian Lanz, Meinrad Abegg, Urs-Beat Braendli, Fabrizio Cioldi, Christian Ginzler & Christoph Fischer

  2. Federal Office for the Environment FOEN, Forest Division, Bern, Switzerland

    Paolo Camin

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

    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

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

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Lanz, A. et al. (2016). Switzerland. 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_43

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