Peatlands use: present past and future
Editor: Gerd Lüttig
Volume 2
558 pages
E. Schweizerbart'sche Verlagsbuchhandlung (Nägele u. Obermiller)
Stuttgart 1996
ISBN 3-510-65171-5
ISBN 3-510-65173-1 (Vol 2)
CONTENTS
Commission I : Stratigraphy, inventory, and conservation of peatlands
Topic 1 : Types, genesis and classification of mires
Topic 2 : Global distribution and resources of mires
Topic 3 : Nature-conservation criteria for different types of mires
Topic 4 : Peatlands as historical archives
Commission II : Industrial utilization of peat
Topic 5 : International standards for peat, peat products and peat substitutes
No contribution to the proceedings
Topic 6 : Extraction and treatment of peat, production of value-added peat products
Topic 7 : Peat packaging and recycling of packaging materials
No contribution to the proceedings
Topic 8 : Peat as energy resource
Commission III : Utilization of peat and peatlands in agriculture, horticulture, and forestry
Topic 9 : Intensive and extensive agricultural use — benefits and risks of peatland ecosystems
Topic 10 : Forestry on peatland and carbon balance
Topic 11 : Peat and competetive products in horticulture
Commission IV : Chemical, physical, and biological characteristics of peat
Topic 12 : Chemical characteristics of peat, peat soils, peat products, balneological substances — new analytical methods
Topic 13 : Recent research on physical properties of peat and their evaluation
Topic 14 : Present biological knowledge of peat types
Topic 15 : Chemical technology of peat
Commission V : Land-use planning of peatlands
Topic 16 : Carbon balance of peatlands with respect to global change
Topic 17 : Ecosystem management of natural and modified peatlands
Topic 18 : Peatland maps as prerequisite for land-use planning
Commission VI : Peat balneology, medicine and therapeutics
Topic 19 : Peat therapy in the context of peloid supply, treatment, additives, and waste disposal
Topic 20 : Therapeutical use of peat and substances extracted from peat
Topic 21 : Peat and peat preparations in veterinary medicine