Forest surveying and national forest inventory. What should we know about Russian forests?
The RAS Research Board on Forests held academic dispute “Forest surveying and national forest inventory. What should we know about Russian forests?” on November 11, 2015.
The debate aim was to discuss widely the state and challenges of forest inventory in Russia and worldwide. The scientific analysis of the results of the national forest inventory, providing Russian governmental authorities with unbiased information for rational and timely decision making.
Diversity of organizations and participants confirms the timeliness of the topic: almost 60 specialists from FANO RAS institutions, high school, environmental NGOs, private inventory organizations, mass media, etc.
However Ministry of environment and natural resources and Federal Forestry Agency did not send its representatives although were invited.
The discussion allowed determine the importance of the following statements:
- the state forest inventory did not give relevant information about forests, although great amount of money was spent (estimated 4-6 bln rubles).
- the forest inventory system is depressed.
Dispute participants decided to commission the RAS Research Board on Forests to:
- to develop an expert opinion based on debate participants’ suggestions;
- send an expert opinion to the Russian Government, Ministry of environment and natural resources, Federal Forestry Agency, NGOs and commercial organizations.
Talks and presentations:
Alexander Isaev, member of RAS, Head of the RAS Research Board on Forests, CEPF RAS (Moscow). Welcome speech.
Nikolay Moiseev, member of RAS, VNIILM (Moscow region). Urgent necessity of forest inventory revival in Russia.
Yuriy Gagarin, PhD, CEPF RAS (Moscow) What do we know about forests? Forest management and use practice.
Alexander Alexeev, Sc.D., SPbGLTU (Saint-Petersvurg). Main difficulties of current forest surveying and national forest inventory.
Alexey Yaroshenko, PhD, Greenpeace Russia (Moscow). On the necessity of total division of forest surveying and national forest inventory.
Valeriy Chernikh, Sc.D., PGTU (Yoshkar-Ola). Ways of improving forest surveying in Russia.
Viktor Nefedyev, Sc.D., CEPF RAS (Moscow). Forest surveying as a part of national forest management system of Russia.
Natalya Lukina, Sc.D., CEPF RAS (Moscow), Zhirin, S. Bartalev, A. Alexeev, E. Lupyan, D. Ershov, A. Gornov, M. Orlova, D. Vorobyova, E. Gavrilyuk. Ways of improving state forest inventory in Russia.
Evgeniy Lopatin, PhD, Natural Resources Institute Finland (Helsinki, Finland). Opportunities of forest surveying and inventory technology transfer from Finland to Russia.
Vladimir Arkhipov, PhD, OOO Lesproekt (Saint-Petersburg). On modernization of forest inventory operations in Russia on the basis of national forest inventory and surveying.
Sergey Bartalev, Sc.D., IKI RAS (Moscow). Technologies for remote assessment of forest resources of Russia: state-of-the-art capability and appliance potential.
Irina Priputina, PhD, IFHBPP RAS (Pushchino). Modeling and forecast of forest dynamics under natural and anthropogenic impacts combined.
Rudolf Treyfeld, PhD, OOO Lesekspertiza (Saint-Petersburg). Private forest surveying: state and perspectives for development.
Alexander Kobyakov, PhD, MGUL (Moscow region), OOO Lesoproektnoye bureau (Moscow). Continuous forest surveying – future or essential reality?
Alexander Bondarev, PhD, IL SO RAS im. M.V. Sukacheva (Krasnoyarsk). Methodology of forest surveying and forest inventory in Russia.
Georgiy Albertovich, IFA im. A.M. Obukhova RAS (Moscow). Global verifiable system of carbon stock accounting in forest stands.
