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Produced in many world’s countries at over 1 million tonne/year rate by extraction of certain woods and barks with boiling water, tannin is a class of high molecular weight biophenols increasingly used in a number of industries. This study offers a new bioeconomy insight into an old natural product that, we argument in this study, will play a crucial role in the development of the bioeconomy of forest regions. After providing an updated picture of key economic and production aspects, we show how flourishing research on tannin’s biological activity and technological applications has revealed many new properties which are likely to drive significant growth in demand in the near and mid-term future. The study concludes with selected recommendations for bioeconomy scholars and for policy-makers based in forest areas.

ook Description Advances in Water Science Methodologies addresses ways and means of using remote sensing data to elucidate the interactions between the atmospheric, oceanic and hydrological processes. Various water-related applications, such as water resources management, environmental monitoring, climate prediction, agriculture, preparation for and mitigation of extreme weather events, are characterized by widely varying requirements of spatial, temporal, and spectral resolutions of the remotely sensed data. This book is composed with great care to deal with the appropriate data assimilation methodologies and technology transfer practices, to cover different dimensions of the subject area and to identify potential growth areas of remote sensing applications. By linking with cognate subjects, such as data management and geomorphology, and with the support of two case histories of water resource management, dealing with water harvesting and water pollution, a fuller picture of the subject area is provided. The book is intended for university students and professionals in the area of remote sensing, water sciences and technologies, earth and environmental sciences and related areas.