World Series Volume 8

IUFRO Guidelines for Designing Multipurpose Resource Inventories

Editor: H. Gyde Lund

IUFRO Guidelines for Designing Multipurpose Resource Inventories. A project of IUFRO 4.02.02. IUFRO World Series Vol. 8. 216 p. IUFRO World Series 8

ISBN  3-901347-09-7
rssN  1016-3263
FDC  524.61:524.63

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In most countries resource managers and agricultural and food policy staff require periodic information for all land, soil, vegetation (timber, crops, browse, forage), water, air, fish and wildlife, aesthetics, recreation, wilderness, and energy and mineral resources. Moreover, agriculture and natural resources are so inter-related that these two cannot be disassociated. Decision-makers use this information to meet international requirements, develop national strategic plans, and for local planning. Traditionally organizations collect information on these resources in independent surveys resulting possibly in unnecessary duplication of effort, conflicting data, and information gaps. Properly designed multipurpose resource inventories (MRIs) provide much of the required information more effectively.

The  International Union of Forestry Research Organization  (IUFRO) Research Group 4.02 sponsored  two recent workshops  to address  the  topic of MRIs  the MONTE VERITA  CONFERENCE ON FOREST SURVEY DESIGNS – "SIMPLICITY  VERSUS  EFFICIENCY''  AND ASSESSMENT  OF NON-TIMBER RESOURCES held  in Ascona, Switzerland 2-7 May 1994  and  the  INTERNATIONAL  CONFERENCE ON MULTIPLE RESOURCE  INVENTORY & MONITORING OF TROPICAL  FORESTS held in Seremban, Malaysia, 21-24 November 1994. The Monte Verita Conference  resolved  that  "the  importance  of  the  forest depends on social and cultural impacts.  In industrialised  countries,  protection and  recreation  functions play a major  role as well as ecological  aspects.  In the tropics  and subtropics,  forests  are  indispensable  for providing  the population  with  fuel wood and  food. This situation  leads to some very different  rankings of  forest  functions." Beside all cultural and economic  differences  in various  countries, participants  accepted  that  the value of non-timber  products  exceeds tl.re value of timber products by far (Kdhlet  al.1995).

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