Forest Resources in Europe Book

	Foreword
	Abbreviations
	Figures
	Tables
	Summary	1
1	Introduction	4
2	Wood Resources and Harvests by Country Groups	9
2.1	Forest lands and their development trends	9
2.2	Exploitable forest resources 1950-1990	13
2.3	Total drain, harvest and increment in 1990	21
2.4	Removals 1950 to 1990 and fellings in 1990	23
2.5	Wood-assortment structure of removals in the 1980s	26
2.6	Consistency of recorded removals	30
2.7	The forest balance of exploitable forests	30
2.8	Increment estimates and climatic potentials, 1950-1990	34
2.9	Forest ownership	38
3	Country Statistics	47
3.1	Northern Europe	47
3.2	Central Europe	51
3.3	Atlantic Europe	56
3.4	Sub-Atlantic Europe	58
3.5	Alpic Europe	61
3.6	Pannonic Europe	63
3.7	Mediterranean West	65
3.8	Mediterranean Middle	67
3.9	Mediterranean East	70
	Tables and figures	74
4	Ecological and Economic Basis	101
4.1	Introduction	101
4.2	Ecological forest zones	103
4.3	Human influence on the development of European forests	114
4.4	Forest management regimes	119
4.5	Stability of the current forests	129
4.6	Stages of economic development	138
4.7	Multi-functional management	142
4.8	Forestry supporting sustainable development	146
	References	153