Global Peat Resources 1996

370 pages

hard cover

ISBN 952-90-7487-5

CONTENTS

Preface

International Peat Society

Peatlands in Biosphere

Peatlands: Their nature and role in the biosphere; E. Maltby and M.C.F. Proctor

Rate of carbon accumulation on boreal peatlands and climate change; Jukka Turunen and Kimmo Tolonen

The fluxes of greenhouse gases CO2, CH4 and N2O in northern peatlands; Pertti J. Martikainen

Climatic changes during the Holocene; Matti Eronen

General Review

General review on world peatland and peat resources; Eino Lappalainen

Europe

Peatlands and peat resources of Belarus; N.N. Bambalov

Present state of mires in Denmark; Bent Aaby

Peat resources of Estonia; Mall Orru

Mires of Finland and their use; Eino Lappalainen

Mires and peat resources in Germany; Peter Steffens

Peat resources of Great Britain (Scotland, England, Wales and Isle of Man); Rodney Burton

Peat resources in Greece; Kimon Christanis

Peat resources of Iceland; Kimmo Virtanen

Peat resources of Ireland; Charles Shier

Peat resources of Latvia; Ansis Snore

Distribution and formation of peatlands in Lithuania; V. Tamosaitis, V. Saulenas and V-E. Gasiuniene

Extent and use of peatland in Norway; Are Johansen

Peat resources in Poland; Piotr Ilnicki and Slawomir Zurek

The peat resources of Russia and their utilization; V.I. Kosov and Vera N. Kreshtapova

Mires and peat resources in the Republic of Karelia, Russia; O.L. Kuznetsov

Peat resources in Sweden; Dag Frediksson

Mapping of mires in Switzerland - starting points and results; Meinrad Küttel

Peat resources in the Ukraine; Slawomir Zurek

Peat in other European countries; Eino Lappalainen and Slawomir Zurek

Asia

Peat and peatlands in China; Ma Xuehui and He Yan

Distribution of peatlands in Indonesia; Jack O. Rieley, Susan E. Page and Bambang Setiadi

Peatlands of Japan; Yasuharu Umeda and Takashi Inoue

Peat in Malaysia; Kamarudin Ambak and Leong Ah Chye

Feasibility study of Philippine peat resources; Veijo Klemetti, Kari Sänkiaho and Heikki Oravainen

The peat resources of Sri Lanka; Eino Lappalainen

Peat swamp forest of Thailand; Chawalit Niyomdham, Chavalit Urapeepatanapong and Picha Pitayakajornwute

Peatlands in Turkey; Dincay Öz

General review of West-Siberian mires; V.D. Markov, L.A. Ospennikova, Ye.I. Skobeyeva, V.G. Matukhina, L.I. Inisheva, Ye.D. Lapshina and L.S. Mikhantyeva

Peat in other Asian countries; Eino Lappalainen and Slawomir Zurek

Africa

Peatlands in Africa; a general review; Hannu Pajunen

Peatlands in Burundi; their extent, development and use; Hannu Pajunen

Formation and use of peat deposits in Rwanda; Hannu Pajunen

The peat resources of Senegal; Erkki Korpijaakko and Martti Korpijaakko

Peat in other African countries; Eino Lappalainen and Slawomir Zurek

North America

General review of North American peatlands (mires); Thomas J. Malterer

The status of peat resources in Canada; Clayton Rubec

Peat resources of the United States; Thomas J. Malterer

Central and South America

Peat bogs of Tierra del Fuego, Argentina; Jorge Rabassa, Andrea Coronato and Claudio Roig

Peat resources of Brazil; Eino Lappalainen

Peat resources in the Republic of Cuba; Eugenio Casanova Casanova

Peat resources of Jamaica; Edward Robinson

Peatlands in Central and South America; Eino Lappalainen and Slawomir Zurek

Australia

Australia and New Zealand; Eino Lappalainen

Use of Peatlands

Conservation of peatlands; B.D. Wheeler

Agricultural use of peatlands; Henryk Okruszko

Forestry use of peatlands; Juhani Päivänen

Peat Production; Timo Nyrönen

Energy use of peat; Dan Asplund

Horticultural use of peat; Gerald K. Schmilewski

Environmental use of peat; Kari Mutka

Peat in balneology and health care; Riitta Korhonen and Gerd W. Lüttig

Chemical and thermal processing of peat; I.I. Lishtvan

Acknowledgements

List of Authors

Appendix

Europe

Asia

Africa

Global distribution of mires

North America

Central and South America

Australia and New Zealand