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Forest
Resources Assessment
Regional contribution to global
FRA
(see table of contents,
below)
The
main report includes statistical and descriptive information
together with analysis undertaken by high level experts
in the following thematic areas: Area of Forest and
Other Wooded Land, Ownership and Management Status,
Wood Supply and Carbon Sequestration; Biological Diversity
and Environmental Protection; Forest Condition and Damage;
and Protective and Socio-Economic Functions.
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Download
the full database:
TBFRA.ZIP, 36.2 MB
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What
is TBFRA 2000?
- It contains
data, by country, on all aspects
of the forests of North America, Europe, CIS. Australia,
New Zealand and Japan
- It is a contribution
to the global Forest Resource Assessment 2000 (FRA),
led by FAO. TBFRA data will be included in the FRA data set
to provide a single global source of data on the world's
forests, with comparable terms and definitions for all
countries.
- Data were
supplied by national correspondents,
adjusted to conform to international
definitions, and validated by ECE/FAO Geneva
The work was guided
by a team of specialists and
the Joint FAO/ECE Working Party on Forest Economics and
Statistics.
- The team met
in May 2000, in Joensuu, Finland. See
the report of the meeting.
Contents
of TBFRA 2000
- 81 main tables of data by country
- Notes and
comments on the data, provided by national correspondents
(sources, inventory concepts, methods of adjustment
to international definitions etc.)
- Six major
chapters by leading experts in the field, presenting
the broad picture and analysing the major issues
- A special
chapter on the reliability, comparability and precision
of the data
- An Executive Summary.pdf
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few key figures from TBFRA 2000
- 1.7 billion
ha of forest in the
TBFRA region. The largest area of forest is in Russia
( 817 million ha) and Canada (245 million ha)
- 800 million
ha of "other wooded
land", more than a half of all are in Australia.
- 925 million
ha of forest "undisturbed
by man", mostly in Canada and Russia
- 62 million
ha of plantations
- Area of forest
and other wooded land in the TBFRA region expanding
at the rate of 1.95 million ha/year
- 188 billion
m3 of growing stock in the temperate and boreal forests,
an average over the region of 112 m3/ha
- Net annual increment 3800 million m3/year
of which 2500, on forest available for wood supply
- Annual fellings on forest available for wood
supply about 1400 million m3, only 55% of increment
is felled
- Temperate
and boreal forests are subject to damage by fire, insects,
storm, game and pollution, with strong local variations
(see chapter for overview)
Biodiversity and
the environment protection functions of the forests are
analysed in a special TBFRA chapter, but generalisations
at the region level are not possible. |
The report is a part of the Global Forest Resources
Assessment:
For the fourth Ministerial Conference on the
Protection of Forests in Europe, Vienna, April 2003, ECE/FAO
made a number of contributions including data collected
through the Forest Resource Assessment (FRA) network and
in coordination with the global FRA on indicators of sustainable
forest management, the foundation of the joint publication
on the State of Europe’s Forests 2003,
which was presented to the ministers:
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NOTE for users
of the TBFRA-2000 electronic database CD-Rom
"The UNECE/FAO published
and distributed a CD-Rom containing the TBFRA-2000 electronic
database, as well as the Main TBFRA-2000 Report. The database
has been basically elaborated and published in the Access97
format. After the CD-Rom was launched, the positive responses
from users confirm that this product is another important
source of the temperate/boreal forest resource information,
and a useful tool for scientists, researchers; all those
interested in the TBFRA data.
For convenience of users, the database was also made available in Access2000.
Due to some unexpected compilation errors the Access2000
version might not function properly on some computers
(configurations).
How
to repair the Access2000 version of the TBFRA-2000 database
?
The database has been repaired (see TBFRA.ZIP, below). For those who have a copy of the CD, here is a small program,
which repairs the compilation errors in the existing
files.
What you are kindly requested to do is the following:
- please delete your tbfra2000.mdb from your hard disc
- copy the Access2000 version from the CD to the root directory of your
C: or D: drive
- in the Explorer set its write protection to "No"
- unzip the file "repair.zip" attached to this message to the
same root directory where your tbfra2000.mdb
is. This will create a file called “repairtbfra2000.mdb”
- open repairtbfra2000.mdb, it will start to work automatically
- click on the button which fits to the location of your files
- in the message window click on the OK button
- now it should work for 5-6 minutes or may be much more, but finally
you will be informed about the successful termination
of the task
- now close repairtbfra2000.mdb. (At this moment there is no database
open.)
- after this you can move the “TBFRA”000.mdb” database
to any folder you wish
- When its is ready please open tbfra2000 and test it (it should be OK).
Please let us know if the new database, which will be labelled as version
3.1, date 16.06.2001 is working well on your machine.
(you can also send a message to [email protected])
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