Multilingual Forestry Glossary
Coppice, forest energy & forest mechanisation
About
Two COST Actions have been involved in the creation and maintenance of this Glossary thus far. Please read further for information on the two Actions and on COST:
Initiator of the Glossary:
COST Action FP0902
Forest Energy Portal "Development and harmonization of new operational research and forest assessment procedures for sustainable forest biomass supply"
This COST Action took place from 2009 to 2013 and was a networking and knowledge platform for researchers, companies and all other interested stakeholders in the field of Forest Biomass for Energy.
The present Glossary was developed and maintained by COST Action FP0902 throughout its duration. Experts from 28 countries were involved in the task. The aim of their efforts was to harmonize the terminology used in the field of forest biomass and to unify the used units, which differ in various corners of the world, thus causing misinterpretation or misunderstanding in this intensively developing discipline.
Further development and extension of the Glossary:
COST Action FP1301
EuroCoppice "Innovative management and multifunctional utilization of traditional coppice forests – an answer to future ecological, economic and social challenges in the European forestry sector"
www.eurocoppice.uni-freiburg.de
This COST Action began in 2013 and will continue until October of 2017. EuroCoppice aims to understand, to raise awareness for, to stimulate research development and to promote Coppice Forest Management (CFM) as a resilient and adaptive multifunctional forest management system to meet specific actual and further needs of (rural) societies, bringing together knowledge and promoting activities on a European level, which are so far highly fragmented.
Terms and definitions are also a problem within international communication on coppicing. In order to build on work previously started within Action FP0902, EuroCoppice further developed the Glossary and extended the Glossary to new terms related to coppice forest management. Working Group 1 "Definitions, history and typology" has led these efforts.
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