We are investigating the destruction of the forest
and factors contributing to the degradation of Hyrcanian forests in Iran.
The data are not available for all countries and surely there are country-specific reports available for many regions. As far as I know, the following is one of the best existing global databases (it is interactive which means you can explore it by country, download data etc.)
http://www.globalforestwatch.org/
I hope this helps, all best
Danilo
The Forest Resource Assessment series published by FAO and the globalforestwatch database maybe a good starting points. See http://www.fao.org/forestry/fra/fra2015/en/ and/or http://www.globalforestwatch.org/.
Best,
Albert
This article is not very general but provides useful data:
Joint Evaluation of Storms, Forest Vulnerability
and their Restoration
Sébastien Drouineau et al 2000
I believe you may find a lot of interesting information in a recent paper that came out in Science:
Hansen MC, Potapov PV, Moore R, Hancher M, Turubanova SA, Tyukavina A, Thau D, Stehman SV, Goetz SJ, Loveland TR, Kommareddy A, Egorov A, Chini L, Justice CO & Townshend JRG (2013) High-Resolution Global Maps of 21st-Century Forest Cover Change. Science 342: 850-853. doi:10.1126/science.1244693.
this is the abstract:
Quantification of global forest change has been lacking despite the recognized importance of forest ecosystem services. In this study, Earth observation satellite data were used to map global forest loss (2.3 million square kilometers) and gain (0.8 million square kilometers) from 2000 to 2012 at a spatial resolution of 30 meters. The tropics were the only climate domain to exhibit a trend, with forest loss increasing by 2101 square kilometers per year. Brazil’s well-documented reduction in deforestation was offset by increasing forest loss in Indonesia, Malaysia, Paraguay, Bolivia, Zambia, Angola, and elsewhere. Intensive forestry practiced within subtropical forests resulted in the highest rates of forest change globally. Boreal forest loss due largely to fire and forestry was second to that in the tropics in absolute and proportional terms. These results depict a globally consistent and locally relevant record of forest change.
Hello Mansour, Please see if the attached paper from India would help you.
Best worldwide data is from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization. Data from 2010 available, and 2015 will be out next month:
http://www.fao.org/forestry/fra/fra2010/en/
Dear friends Kenneth M Towe , Danilo Russo , Albert Arhin , Masoumeh Saderi , Francesco Maria Sabatini , Vaibhav Mantri , Gregory E. Frey
I am thankful with your guidance.
Best wishes. M.Salehi
Hello Monsour, There is a comprehensive report on the current drivers of tropical deforestation published by Union of Concerned Scientists, which I think will be very useful to you and your research collaborators. The report is available (in PDF format) at www.ucsusa.org/whatsdrivingdeforestation. It can also be obtained from UCS Publications, 2 Brattle Square, Cambridge, MA 02138-3780. You can also email [email protected] or call (617) 547-5552 for further enquiries.
Hello Mansour
I think FAO´s Global Forest Resources Assesment and the information from ITTO and Globalforestwatch database will help you.
http://www.fao.org/documents/card/en/c/770b9ce6-9f65-4a46-a9af-1abbb0f71ab1/
Please visit the following link for update data.
http://www.globalforestwatch.org/
Hi Mansour
The FAO's State of the Forests use to be a very complete source of information, nevertheless they consider forest plantations like Eucalyptus and rubber as forests which from my perspective is not correct. Also there are many scientific papers per country. The ITTO is other good source as mentioned by Mr. Mario Guevara above.
http://www.fao.org/forestry/sofo/en/
http://www.botanik.uni-greifswald.de/fileadmin/laoek/pdf/paper_downloads/Archiv_2007_2_Scharnweber_et_al.pdf is an other interesting report related to your topic.
Cheers
Please check FAO as stated: http://www.fao.org/forestry/en/
Other useful journal articles like the 'Journal of Forest Policy and Economics': http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/13899341
Please check some of my articles on forest policy and deforestation.
Science 7 December 2012:
Vol. 338 no. 6112 pp. 1305-1306
DOI: 10.1126/science.1231070
PERSPECTIVE
ECOLOGY
Global Decline in Large Old Trees
David B. Lindenmayer1, William F. Laurance2, Jerry F. Franklin3
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/338/6112/1305
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