State of the
World's Forests, 1997
Food and Agriculture
Organization of the United Nations
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Foreword
Introduction
Part 1 - Situation and prospects for forest
conservation and development
Recent
trends and current status of forest resources
World
forest areas in 1995
Changes
in forest cover and condition
Trends
in forest management and utilization
Status
and trends in forest management
Evolving
patterns of harvesting, processing and marketing
Trends
and status of forest products and services
Forests in the
economy
Contribution
of forests to environmental stability
Global
trends in consumption and production of forest products, 1970-94
International
trade in forest products
The
global outlook for forest products
What does
the future hold?
FAO
global outlook study, 1996
Selected
policy-related implications
Part 2 - Policy, planning and institutional
arrangements
National
policies in context - issues and trends
Trends
in national forest planning
Changing
perspectives in forest planning
Forest
sector planning in developing countries
Forest
sector planning in industrialized countries
Improved
forestry planning directions: the concept of national forests programmes (NFPS)
Evolving
institutional framework
The
international dialogue and initiatives with relevance to forests
Intergovernmental
initiatives
International
forestry research efforts
Private
sector and NGO initiatives
Forestry funding
Funding sources
Part 3 - Special issue: The development of
criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management
The
development of criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management
Background
Efforts
to identify criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management
Implementation
of criteria and indicators
Highlights
of experiences and lessons learned
Conclusions
Part 4 - Regional highlights
Asia and
the Pacific
The Near East
Africa
Europe
and the former USSR
Latin
America and the Caribbean
North America
Forestry
in economic/political regional groups
Annexes
Annex
1: Acronyms and abbreviations
Annex 2:
Definitions
Annex 3: Data
tables
Annex
4: Notes on the data tables
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