Acknowledgements

We would like to direct our special thanks and appreciations to the persons who have reviewed the subject papers and assited in the work with the annotated bibliographies.

The first review was made in 2003 by a group of students of the MSc course "Tropical and International Forestry" at Göttingen University during the teaching module "Forest Inventory". The principally participating students were Mrs. Basundhara Bhattarai, Mr. Stijn Cleemput, Mr. Tzeng-Yih Lam, and Mr. Sebastian Derwisch.

The following persons are acknowledged for reviewing the subject papers:

Rationale and Policy influence

Mr. Rodney Keenan, Bureau of Rural Sciences, Australia
Mr. Sven Svensson, National Board of Forestry, Sweden

Organization and Implementation

Mr. Ulf Söderberg, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå, Sweden

Sample designs

Mr. Kenneth Cormier, Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Colorado USA
Mr. Mark H. Hansen, North Central Research Station, USDA Forest Service, Minnesota USA
Mr. Juha Heikkinen, Finnish Forest Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland

Observation and Measurement

Mr. Gyde Lund, Forest Information Services, USA

Data collection through Interviews

Mr. Dan Altrell, FAO-FORM, Rome, Italy
Mrs. Marilyn Hoskins, FAO (retired)
Mrs. Elinor Ostrom, Indiana University, USA
Mrs. Amy Poteete, University of New Orleans, USA

Information mangement and Data registration

Mr. Hugh Barclay, Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, Canada
Mr. Mark Gillis, Canadian Forest Service, Pacific Forestry Centre, Canada

Modeling for estimation and Monitoring

Mr. Ivo Kupka, Czech University of Agriculture in Prague, Czech Republic
Mr. Jens Peter Skovsgaard, Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning, KVL, Denmark
Mr. Jerry Vanclay, Southern Cross University, Australia