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Global Forest Resources Assessment 2025
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The State of the World's Forests
International forestry journal
Restoring the Mediterranean region – status and challenges
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FAO Forestry Paper 170: Sustainable management of Pinus radiata plantations
09/2012
This book is about how to grow Pinus radiata (radiata pine) forest plantations. Radiata pine is a versatile, fast-growing, medium-density softwood, very suitable for a wide range of end-uses.
Unasylva 238: Measuring forest degradation
03/2012
Unasylva closes the International Year of Forests 2011 with a selection of papers on forest degradation. These were developed as part of a special study FAO and its partners conducted to create a set of indicators on the state of forest degradation. Also featured is a major study that analysed remote sensing imagery to understand forest-cover and land-use change; and a way to use such data to map the myriad opportunities for forest landscape restoration.
FAO Forestry Paper 169: Global forest land-use change 1990-2005
02/2012
This report presents the key findings on forest land use and land-use change between 1990 and 2005 from FAO’s 2010 Global Forest Resources Assessment Remote Sensing Survey. It is the first report of its kind to present systematic estimates of global forest land use and change.
FAO Forestry Paper 168: Soil carbon monitoring using surveys and modelling
01/2012
This publication describes the application of survey- and modelling-based methods for monitoring soil organic carbon stock and its changes on a national scale.
FAO Forestry Paper 167: Wildlife in a changing climate
12/2011
For the past twenty years climate change has been high on the international agenda. Together with desertification, soil degradation and biodiversity loss, it is widely recognized as the major environmental threat the world is facing.
