EXPLANATORY NOTES GENERAL lia, Canada, Japan, New Zealand and the United States, thestem Country/area nomenclature and regional groups used in the volume for all living trees has been used for the volume figure Some variation as to the minimum diameter applied is reported The country/area names and order used in these tables follow in ECE/FAO (2000) standard UN practice regarding

interest in sustainable forest It concludes by suggesting how fiscal policies in anagement has grown, so ha as the the sector might be improved and offers importance of finding ways to finance it. Indeed, comments on the broader debate on financing one of the main points of agreement at various sustainable forest management. international meetings on forestry

he term\biological diversity\entered the part of the broader set of criteria and indicators for public vocabulary only about 15 years ago, sustainable forest management but its arrival signalled a new and more Conserving biological diversity is an ethical comprehensive approach to conservation, bringing imperative because all life has a right to exist, and er information, knowledge, awareness, humans should not knowingly cause any loss of ethics, forestry, protected areas

PART II SELECTED CURRENT ISSUES IN THE FOREST SECTOR Forests and poverty alleviation his chapter focuses on the role of forests, chapter specifies two types of poverty alleviation particularly natural ones, in poverty associated with forest resources, as seen at the

Institutional framework n recent years, the forest sector has undergone stakeholders in forestry; the recent emphasis on a fundamental transformation, largely as a ond food security and poverty alleviation; and the result of restructuring, downsizing, changes in need to comply with legally binding ownership and increased recognition of the commitments multiple benefits that forests One of the For the most part, however, education is not most significant trends

Forest resources n 2001, FAO published the Global Forest close collaboration among international Resources assessment 2000 forest-related processes such as those related most comprehensive such survey ever to criteria and indicators for sustainable undertaken. Largely based on information forest management; provided by the countries themselves and a the involvement of countries remote sensing survey of tropical countries

ration and Use: A Seminar via Interne Analysis of two alternative harvesting systems hosted by the World Bank, July 2000. The in peninsular Malaysia: sensitive analysis of conferenceWebsiteiswww.worldbank.org/ Alexander, m. rowell, T.A. 1999. Recent anagement Inc., Washington, DC. developments in management planning and Brown, S, Sathaye, J, Cannel, M.& Kauppi, P. monitoring on protected sites in the United 1996. Management of forests for mitigation of

Association of southeast asian Nations The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) was established on 8 August 1967 in Bangkok with the signing of the Bangkok Declaration. At present, its members are Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, the Lao People's Democratic Republic, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapor

The status of forests: the Global Forest Resources Assessment 2000 ) emand has grown for a broad range of began in 1996. In that year, FAO convened an information on forests at the national and expert consultation in Kotka, Finland, where international levels. Reliable information on the some of the world's leading forest inventory status and trends o specialists provided technical advice on the scope decision-makers and implementation of FRA 2000 as well as on a orienting fores ch core set of forest-related definitions to be used in information is usef

Foreword he State of the World's Forests reports every two years on the status of forests, recent major policy and institutional developments and key issues concerning the forest sector. This is the fourth edition of the publication, the purpose of which is to make current, reliable and policy-relevant information widely available to polic makers, foresters and other natural resource managers, academics, forest industry and civil society. Our hope is that it will facilitate informed discussion and decision making with regard to the world,s forests As we approach the benchmark year of 2002, the tenth anniversary of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), it is an opportune moment to take stock of the progress