Harmonised statistics and maps of forest biomass and increment in Europe.

peer reviewedForest biomass is an essential resource in relation to the green transition and its assessment is key for the sustainable management of forest resources. Here, we present a forest biomass dataset for Europe based on the best available inventory and satellite data, with a higher level of harmonisation and spatial resolution than other existing data. This database provides statistics and maps of the forest area, biomass stock and their share available for wood supply in the year 2020, and statistics on gross and net volume increment in 2010-2020, for 38 European countries. The statistics of most countries are available at a sub-national scale and are derived from National Forest Inventory data, harmonised using common reference definitions and estimation methodology, and updated to a common year using a modelling approach. For those counties without harmonised statistics, data were derived from the State of Europe's Forest 2020 Report at the national scale. The maps are coherent with the statistics and depict the spatial distribution of the forest variables at 100 m resolution

Pomeranus non cantat? Uwe Johnson and Pomerania: A topos of the lost (first) homeland or where I come from doesn’t alredy exist

Uwe Johnson was perceived before 1989 exclusively as a writer of the division of Germany. Born in Pomerania (Kamień Pomorski), he spent his childhood and early youth in Mecklenburg. After obtaining his university degree in German philology in the German Democratic Republic, he moved to West Berlin. In the same year he published his first novel Mutmaßungen über Jakob (the Polish edition Domniemania w sprawie Jakuba appeared in 2008), which besides the reflection on the division of Germany in the context of the Cold War, dividing Europe into two political camps, extensively describes his holidays he spent until 10 years of age in Darzewice near Wolin. It was, looking through the prism of the author’s whole biography, the most happy period in his life and therefore a point of reference for forming a worldview in a bipolar world of the ideological indoctrination. The characters of his novels written in prose, like Jakob Abs, the main character of the novel mentioned above, hail from Pomerania. The article provides an analysis of determinants of the author’s regional identity from the perspective of self-reflection in which a central position occupies the category of small homeland as understood in the theory of concrete utopia (Ernst Bloch), as well that of spiritual affinity (Johann Wolfgang Goethe), and spiritual homelessness (Siegfried Kracauer).Uwe Johnson był przed 1989 rokiem postrzegany wyłącznie jako pisarz „podziału Niemiec”. Urodzony na Pomorzu (Kamień Pomorski), okres dzieciństwa i wczesnej młodości spędził w Mecklemburgii. Po studiach germanistycznych w NRD przeniósł się w 1959 roku do Berlina Zachodniego. W tym samym roku ukazała się jego pierwsza powieść Mutmaßungen über Jakob (pol. Domniemiania o Jakubie, 2008), która – oprócz refleksji nad podziałem Niemiec w kontekście klimatu zimnej wojny dzielącej Europę na dwa obozy polityczne – szeroko opisuje wakacyjny czas spędzany do dziesiątego roku życia w Darzewicach koło Wolina. Jest to, patrząc przez pryzmat całej biografii autora, najszczęśliwszy okres w jego życiu i z tego powodu – punkt odniesienia do ukształtowania się światopoglądu w dwubiegunowym świecie indoktrynacji ideologicznej. Bohaterowie jego utworów pisanych prozą wywodzą się, podobnie jak Jakob Abs, główny bohater z wyżej wymienionej powieści, również z Pomorza. Tekst ten poświęcony jest analizie determinantów tożsamości regionalnej pisarza z perspektywy samorefleksji, w której kategoria małej ojczyzny w rozumieniu teorii konkretnej utopii (Ernst Bloch), zajmuje miejsce centralne – pokrewieństwa duchowego (Johann Wolfgang Goethe) oraz duchowej bezdomności (Siegfried Kracauer)

Bank Danych o Lasach w Polsce na tle baz danych i systemów udostępniania informacji z zakresu leśnictwa w innych krajach

The study characterizes types of databases and information sharing systems in forestry at the global level and in various countries. We have presented their content and available functionality. On this background the Forest Data Bank (BDL) in Poland has been described: its main objectives, information content and the technology which is used to share data. We have analyzed the current state of gathering and sharing of information on forests in the world and factors influencing their development. Particular attention has been paid to the BDL, which as compared with other databases at the national level, is one of the richer and more complete sources of information about forests. / Synopsis. W opracowaniu dokonano charakterystyki rodzajów baz danych i systemów udostępniania informacji z zakresu leśnictwa na poziomie globalnym oraz w różnych krajach. Przeanalizowano ich zawartość i dostępne funkcjonalności. Na tym tle opisano polski Bank Danych o Lasach (BDL): jego główne zadania, zasób informacyjny i rozwiązania techniczne służące do udostępniania danych. Przeanalizowano aktualny stan gromadzenia i udostępniania informacji o lasach na świecie oraz uwarunkowania rozwoju w tym zakresie. Szczególną uwagę zwrócono na BDL, który w porównaniu z innymi bazami danych na poziomie krajowym jest jednym z bogatszych i bardziej kompletnych źródeł informacji o lasach

The New EU Forest Strategy for 2030: A New Understanding of Sustainable Forest Management?

Two decades after the pan-European set of indicators for sustainable forest management was adopted, the European Commission published the New EU Forest Strategy for 2030. We compared the documents on the basis of a content analysis to determine whether they share the same understanding of sustainable forest management. We looked at whether, and to what extent, the existing indicator set is fit for purpose to monitor progress towards the Strategy’s objectives, and the delivery of policy commitments. About two thirds of the identified objectives and commitments in the Strategy can be monitored at least partially by the pan-European set of indicators, whereas new indicators or approaches need to be developed for the remaining third. Several of the indicators are not linked to the Strategy, and some of them are only weakly linked to the policy issues addressed in the Strategy. Our comparison shows a few significant differences between the comprehensive vision of sustainable forest management formulated in the indicator set and the scope of the objectives and commitments in the Strategy. In particular, the forest policy concerns reflected in the Strategy address several issues which are not fully covered in the pan-European indicator set

Harmonised statistics and maps of forest biomass and increment in Europe

Abstract Forest biomass is an essential resource in relation to the green transition and its assessment is key for the sustainable management of forest resources. Here, we present a forest biomass dataset for Europe based on the best available inventory and satellite data, with a higher level of harmonisation and spatial resolution than other existing data. This database provides statistics and maps of the forest area, biomass stock and their share available for wood supply in the year 2020, and statistics on gross and net volume increment in 2010–2020, for 38 European countries. The statistics of most countries are available at a sub-national scale and are derived from National Forest Inventory data, harmonised using common reference definitions and estimation methodology, and updated to a common year using a modelling approach. For those counties without harmonised statistics, data were derived from the State of Europe’s Forest 2020 Report at the national scale. The maps are coherent with the statistics and depict the spatial distribution of the forest variables at 100 m resolution