?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.relation=https%3A%2F%2Fpure.iiasa.ac.at%2Fid%2Feprint%2F4870%2F&rft.title=The+Current+and+Potential+Production+of+Forest+Biomass+for+Energy+in+Europe%2C+Russia%2C+and+China&rft.creator=Schopfhauser%2C+W.&rft.description=In+this+analysis%2C+the+forest+biomass+utilization+and+the+potential+for+energy+production+for+Western+and+Eastern+Europe%2C+Russia+and+China+has+been+estimated.+Western+and+Eastern+Europe+are+assessed+on+a+country+level+and+Russia+and+China+as+regions.+Current+trends+and+developments+of+forest+resources+characterize+their+ability+to+produce+forest+biomass+for+energy+production.+Europe+is+characterized+by+a+slowly+increasing+forest+land+area%2C+underutilization+of+the+forest+resource%2C+and+increased+growing+forest+stock+and+an+estimated+increase+in+wood+energy+production+by+25-75%25+by+year+2020.+Limitations+of+the+Russian+forest+resource+are+due+to+a+major+share+which+is+actually+not+exploitable+and+because+natural+hazards+and+overexploitation+in+populated+areas+threaten+the+growing+stock.+Nonetheless%2C+by+far+the+largest+biomass+resource+of+the+studied+regions+is+located+in+Siberia.+China+has+faced+heavy+overutilization+of+its+forests+without+appropriate+reforestation+and+protection.+Despite+a+decline+of+forest+area+and+forest+productivity%2C+the+harvesting+has+increased.+This+situation+is+expected+to+continue%2C+which+may+even+increase+pressure+on+forest+exploitation.+Forest+biomass+potentials+are+compared+with+total+biomass+potentials+by+IIASA's+ECS-Project.+The+possibility+of+a+forest+plantation+program+to+contribute+to+the+enhanced+production+of+forest+biomass+for+energy+production+is+analyzed.&rft.publisher=WP-96-158&rft.date=1996-12&rft.type=Monograph&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text&rft.language=en&rft.identifier=https%3A%2F%2Fpure.iiasa.ac.at%2Fid%2Feprint%2F4870%2F1%2FWP-96-158.pdf&rft.identifier=++Schopfhauser%2C+W.+%3Chttps%3A%2F%2Fpure.iiasa.ac.at%2Fview%2Fiiasa%2F1558.html%3E++(1996).++The+Current+and+Potential+Production+of+Forest+Biomass+for+Energy+in+Europe%2C+Russia%2C+and+China.+++IIASA+Working+Paper.+IIASA%2C+Laxenburg%2C+Austria%3A+WP-96-158+++++