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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Table of Content -- Foreword by the Council of Europe -- Foreword by the International Mire Conservation Group -- I. General Part -- 1 Introduction Part I / Hans Joosten, Franziska Tanneberger and Asbjørn Moen -- 2 Mire diversity in Europe: mire and peatland types / Hans Joosten, Asbjørn Moen, John Couwenberg and Franziska Tanneberger -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Principles of classification -- 2.2.1 The purpose of classification and terminology -- 2.2.2 Classification and variables -- 2.2.3 Resolution, hierarchy, and organisational level -- 2.3 Early mire descriptions and classification -- 2.4 Topological classification -- 2.4.1 Introduction -- 2.4.2 Water table in relation to peat formation -- 2.4.3 The origin of the water -- 2.4.4 pH and base saturation -- 2.4.5 Nutrient availability -- 2.4.6 Vegetation composition -- 2.4.7 Physiognomy and Finnish mire site types -- 2.4.8 Ecological mire types and the vegetation form concept -- 2.4.9 Habitat types -- 2.4.10 Peat types and stratigraphy -- 2.4.11 Peat accumulation and peatland degradation -- 2.5 The classification of mire areas and patterns -- 2.5.1 Principles and history -- 2.5.2 Mire eros (picotope) -- 2.5.3 Mire features (nanotope) -- 2.5.4 Mire sites (microtope) -- 2.6 The classification of mire massifs (mesotope) -- 2.6.1 Principles of mire massif classification -- 2.6.2 Topographic (geomorphic) classification -- 2.6.3 (Hydro-)morphic classification -- 2.6.4 Hydrogeomorphic classification -- 2.6.5 Hydrogenetic mire classification -- 2.7 The classification of mire complexes (macrotope) -- 2.8 Towards integration? -- 3 Mire and peatland terms and definitions in Europe / Hans Joosten, John Couwenberg, Asbjørn Moen and Franziska Tanneberger -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The justification of chosen definitions -- 3.3 Peatland terms: origins and relations.