This work conveys the timber assessment of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) Forest Study for Western and Eastern Europe, not including the Soviet Union. Aspects of air pollution, silviculture practices, wood supply and forestry practice are covered. Begun in 1986, the Forest Study has assembled a detailed database of European forest resources which have been linked to a matrix-type simulation model. The model generates projections of growing-stock and timber-harvest volumes over time by country, species group and age, making it possible to undertake a general timber-supply assessment. The forest-decline effects caused by air pollutants have been simulated in the model by taking into account depositions, critical loads for air pollutants and resulting damage cycles and growth losses.
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Für höhere Schule und Studium
Für Beruf und Forschung
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978-1-85070-424-9 (9781850704249)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
The forest study timber assessment; current condition of European forest resources; future wood supply as affected by silviculture and harvest levels - the basic scenarios; future wood supply as affected by forest decline attributed to air pollutants - the decline scenarios; the forest land expansion scenario; summary of the seven scenarios; validation of the forest study results; policy implications of continued forest decline. Appendices: the PEMU forest decline model; scenario results.
