Sustainable Forestry?

Sustainable Private Native Forestry

A review of timber production, biodiversity and soil and water indicators, and their applicability to northeast New South Wales Sustainable Private Native Forestry: A review of timber production, biodiversity and soil and water indicators, and their applicability to northeast NSW Publication No. 09/022 The information contained in this publication is intended for general use to assist public kn...

Financing sustainable forest management Forestry Policy

and Adrian Whiteman of the Forest Policy Service of FAO, together with Herman Savenije and Kees van Dijk . It summarises the experiences and lessons learned from two projects in Latin America. These projects produced assessments of the status, experiences and prospects for financing mechanisms in 19 Latin American countries. A synthesis of these results is available in: Dijk, Kees van, and Herm...

The Deniable Truth of Sustainable Forestry

Email: [email protected] Let’s start with the deniable truth—at present sustainable forestry is rare or localized. This is apparent when looking at global scales but also at regional and local scales. Globally, deforestation and land conversion continue. There is less forest each year (-5.2 million ha yr-1), and conversion of frontier (primary, or ancient) forests to second growth forests of shorter ...

Sustainable Development of Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry

Sustainable forestry in the tropics: panacea or folly?

12 The profitability of uncontrolled logging can be a significant obstacle to sustainable forest 13 management, especially in the tropics. Rice et al. (1997) have argued that not only does 14 traditional selective logging provide higher returns but also incurs less damage to forests than 15 sustainable forest management systems that involve harvesting of many species and the creation 16 of larg...