Forest Resources of Europe, CIS, North America, Australia, Japan and New Zealand (industrialized Temperate/boreal Countries): UN-ECE/FAO Contribution to the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2000This report (the title of which is abbreviated to TBFRA-2000) is the contribution by UN-Economic Commission for Europe (UN-ECE) and the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) to the FAO Global Forest Resource Assessment 2000. The objective of TBFRA-2000 is to collect and make available the best possible information on the forest resources of the 55 countries it covers. It is intended to be of use to governments and the international forest policy community and also to scientists, forest industries, NGOs and anyone interested in biodiversity and climate change. The report contains statistical and descriptive information and analyses of the following aspects of forests and wooded land: area - status and changes; ownership and management status; wood supply and carbon sequestration; biological diversity and environmental protection; forest condition and damage; socio-economic functions. The data were supplied by national correspondents who adjusted the raw national data to internationally agreed definitions. The reliability and comparability of the data is discussed in a separate chapter. The report also provides indicators of sustainable forest management. |
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Executive Summary | 1 |
Thematic Maps II | 23 |
Area of Forest and Other Wooded Land Status and Changes | 43 |
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Albania annual fellings area of forest Armenia assessment Australia Austria available for wood average Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Canada carbon store cent comments in Chapter coniferous coppice countries Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic damage defoliation Denmark endangered Enquiry Table 14 Estonia Europe FAWS figures Finland forest area forest available Forest Inventory forest land Forest not available forest resources Forestry FYR of Macedonia growing stock harvest hectares Hungary Iceland included increase indigenous or tribal IUCN categories Japan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Main Table Malta million m³ National Correspondent National Forest natural losses Netherlands North America Norway plantations plants Poland Portugal private ownership protected areas public ownership Reference period reported Republic of Moldova Romania Russian Federation secretariat estimates semi-natural Slovakia Slovenia Source Sweden Switzerland Tajikistan TBFRA area total area tree species Turkmenistan Ukraine United Kingdom Uzbekistan volume wood supply wooded land woody biomass Yugoslavia Zealand