Integration of Silviculture in Regional Development: Some Experience of Lithuania, USSR

This paper describes an integrative approach and the practical means employed in regional (national) land use planning concerning the utilization of renewable resources and specialized forest growth in sustainable regional development in the Lithuanian SSR. The approach is based on systems analysis, modeling and optimization of regional development. The function of a forest in a region is determined. by the optimal use of natural processes that govern the region's ecosystem. Forest growth is regulated conforming to ecologically sound standards; examples of standards of growing highly productive industrial-exploitative forest are presented; the final yield is based on the principle of continuity

Regional Resource Management. Papers Presented at the Workshop on Regional Resource Management, Albena, Bulgaria, 1985

In an innovative attempt to bring together specialists in dendrochronology, forestry and regional planning, IIASA, together with the Scientific and Coordination Centre for Ecology and Environment Protection of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, hosted a Workshop on "Regional Resource Management" which was held in Albena, Bulgaria (30 September--4 October, 1985). The Workshop was a great success and its aims were fulfilled: for the first time, leading dendrochronologists met with regional planners, foresters and specialists in acid rain to address questions related to long-range climatic background fluctuations as apparent from dendrochronologies, to long-range transport of pollution and acid rain, and to resource management policies and sustainability of regional systems. Some forty participants from 15 eastern and western countries participated in a stimulating week of discussions. In a continuing effort in this innovative field of science, a further meeting will be held in Krakow, Poland (June 2-6, 1986). The Task Force Meeting "Methodology of Dendrochronology: East/West Approaches" will again be hosted by IIASA, together with the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences as well as the Agricultural Academy in Krakow. The ultimate goal of the Task Force Meeting will be to establish the current state-of-the-art of dendrochronology methodology, especially common aspects and differences in East/West approaches, and to draft an international review on the rationalization of dendrochronological sampling and analysis of different methodologies

Forest Decline and Reproduction: Regional and Global Consequences (Proceedings of a Workshop in Krakow, Poland, 23-27 March 1987)

Within the framework of the Dendrochronology, Biosphere and Acid Rain activities of IIASA's Environment Program, a Workshop "Forest Decline and Reproduction: Regional and Global Consequences" was held in Krakow, Poland from 23rd to 27th March, 1987. The Workshop was organized by IIASA in cooperation with the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO) and the Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw. The objectives of the Workshop were to seek a consensus about the status and knowledge of forest decline, especially in Europe, to identify the choices that international organizations, the forestry community, governments and industry must face, and to discuss ways to avoid further forest decline and facilitate the sustainability of the forest sector. A special field study trip was arranged to the Niepolomice Forest where special attention was given to the bio-indications of industrial damage and the disturbances of the main forest functions were discussed. The Workshop was attended by some 90 senior scientists and agency representatives from East and West Europe, North America, Scandinavia and Japan. Great interest was shown by the ECE/FAO Team of Experts on Forest Decline whose representatives attended as observers. The Team of Experts held a special Committee Meeting in connection with the results achieved. In addition to presentations of some 60 papers on forest decline, the Workshop organizers and a number of key speakers prepared a set of resolutions that were adopted by the Workshop participants. Briefly, the resolutions call for reductions of air pollutant emissions, improved monitoring of the extent and growth rate of forest decline, more research in specific areas, and increased international cooperation

Ecological Sustainability of Regional Development

In June 1987, an important international Workshop was held in Vilnius. Lithuanian SSR on the topic, "Ecological Sustainability of Regional Development". The number of participants was 65, coming from nine countries. Many of the papers dealt with ecological-economic assessment methods used in East European countries for regional development planning. Some of the ideas were quite new to environmental planners from Western Europe, and are of great interest to them. This is one kind of service that IIASA provides very well -- bringing people together and bridging language barriers in the East-West context. IIASA is pleased to be associated with the 1987 Workshop and with these Proceedings

Dendrochronologies for moist forests of the Lithuanian SSR and their application for ecological forecasting

Reveals the radial incremental dynamics of predominant species (Scots pine Pinus sylvestris, Norway spruce Picea abies and black alder Alnus glutinosa) in various types of moist forests: establishes master chronology for these species in boggy soils of the Lithuanian SSR; assesses the meteorological factors which significantly impact on the radial increment of trees in boggy soils; and attempts to forecast, for at last 20 yr, the ecological background of forest growt