Sales No.: 64.II.E.4
This is the second study of the European Timber Trends and Prospects series. This study, like its predecessor, has been undertaken jointly by the secretariats of the Economic Commission for Europe and of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in response to a request originally formulated by member countries in the Timber Committee of ECE and the European Forestry Commission of FAO.
The present study attempts to explore what the next chapter in the evolution of the European forest and timber economy may hold in store. It might be thought that the task of the authors this time would be easier. The statistical framework on which a study such as this must rest is undoubtedly much better than that which was available to the authors of the earlier study, even though it is still far from satisfactory. And there is a decade of additional experience to draw on, a decade during which the Timber Committee of ECE has carefully followed, and documented, developments in the European timber market, while the European Forestry Commission has reviewed the problems of European forestry at regular intervals.
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