World Forests, Markets and Policies

In the 1990s the world community has arrived at a particularly in developing countries and in econo historical turning point. Global issues- the decline mies in transition. These three organizations have of biological diversity, climate change, the fate of different backgrounds and focuses, but have found forest peoples, fresh water scarcity, desertification, it relevant and rewarding to their core operations to deforestation and forest degradation - have come collaborate in WFSE activities. The intention of to dominate the public and political debate about these organizations is to continue supporting the forestry. In the economic sphere, forest industries WFSE research and developing the mutual collab have assumed global dimensions. oration. The World Forests, Society and Environment In the year 2000,WFSE took on anewchallenge, Research Program (WFSE) is a response by the re extending its research network to involve five new searchcommunity to thisglobalization. The WFSE Associate Partners: the Center for International slogan 'Globalization calls for global research' re Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Indonesia;the Cent flects both the means and the end of the program. er for Research and Higher Education on Natural The program is involved in promoting and execut Resources of Tropical America (CATIE) in Costa ing research in different parts of the world, and Rica; the International Centerfor Research inAgro through its publications and communications net Forestry (ICRAF) in Kenya; the World Forestry work, linking researchers worldwide.

Offers information and insights into the potential of market and policy instruments in improving the state of the world's forests. This book t advocates the use of the concept of optimal mix of markets and policies as an approach to view the appropriate and operational roles of market and government in dealing with forestry issues.

World Forests, Markets and Policies: Towards a Balance.- Global Prospects of Substituting Oil by Biomass.- Global Freshwater Resources.- Forest Set-Asides and Carbon Sequestration.- Socioeconomic and Institutional Perspectives of Agroforestry.- Timber Plantations.Timber Supply and Forest Conservation.- Internationalization of Forest Industries.- Forests and Water.- The United States Initiative on Joint Implementation: Forest Sector Projects.- Forests as a Renewable Energy Source in Europe: Prospects and Policies.- Valuing the Multiple Functions of Forests.- World Forests and the G8 Economic Powers: from Imperialism to the Action Programmeon Forests.- G8 Action Programme on Forests: Mere Rhetoric?.- World Trade Flows of Forest Products.- Economic Crises, Small Farmers and Forest Cover in Cameroon and Indonesia.- Forest Cover and Agricultural Technology.- Forest-Based Development in Brazil, Chile and Mexico.- Management of Secondary Forests in Colonist Swidden Agriculture in Peru, Brazil andNicaragua.- Municipal Governments and Forest Management in Bolivia and Nicaragua.- Forest Investments in Latin America and the Caribbean.- Forest Policies in Malawi, Mozambique,Tanzania and Zimbabwe.- Forest Resource Policy in Côte d'lvoire, Cameroon and Gabon.- The Evolution of Forest Regimes in India and China.- Institutions in Forest Management: Special Reference to China.- Forestry in New Zealand: the Opposite of Multiple Use?.- Forest Certification on Private Forests in the United States: Challenges and Opportunities..- Biodiversity Conservation and Forest Products in the United States Pacific Northwest.- Sustaining Outdoor Recreation and Forests in the United States.- Urban Forestry in Europe.- Changes in Wood Resources in Europe with Emphasis on Germany.- Forest Resources forEmployment and Regional Development.- Globalisation and the Forest Sector in the Russian Far East.- Reforms in Support of Sustainable Forestry in the Russian Federation.- List of Contributors.- Ch. 14 Figure 10: Japan imports of forest products from major trading partners.- Ch. 14 Figure 12: Finland exports of forest products to major trading partners.- Ch. 28 Figure 2: Counties with different amounts of forest cover, 2000 (USA).- Ch. 28 Figure 3: Counties with both heavy recreation demand and forest cover, 2000 (USA).- Ch. 28 Figure 4: Counties with both heavy future recreation demand and forest cover, 2020 (USA).- V Map 1:Total forest area per capita (ha, natural log scale) in 166 countriesand 31 countries having the largest total forest area (million ha), 1995.- V Map 2:Total forest area per capita (ha) and total forest area (million ha) in 28 countriesof Latin America in 1995.- V Map 3:Total forest area per thousand capita (ha) and total forest area (million ha)in 49 countries of Africa in 1995.- V Map 4:Total forest area per thousand capita (ha) and total forest area (million ha)in 50 countries of Asia-Oceania in 1995.- V Map 5:Total forest area per capita (ha) in 50 U.S. states and 12 Canadian provinces and total forest area in 62 states/provinces (million ha).