 | State of the world's forests, 1997. (1997) |
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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 products27 |
| | 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 |
| | (introduction...) |
| | Intergovernmental initiatives |
| | International forestry research efforts |
| | Private sector and NGO initiatives |
| | Forestry funding |
| | (introduction...) |
| | 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 Pacific1,2 |
| | The Near East1,2 |
| | Africa1,2 |
| | Europe and the former USSR1,2 |
| | Latin America and the Caribbean1,2 |
| | North America1,2 |
| | Forestry in economic/political regional groups1 |
| | Annex 1: Acronyms and abbreviations |
| | Annex 2: Definitions |
| | Annex 3: Data tables |
| | Annex 4: Notes on the data tables |
| | Acknowledgements |
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