Title: Sustainable forestry challenges for developing countries /
Authors: Palo, Matti.; Mery, Gerardo.
Publisher: Kluwer Academic,
Year: 1996
Subjects: Sustainable forestry.; Sustainable forestry Developing countries.
Abstract: This volume addresses the acute challenges of sustainable forestry with emphasis on the developing countries. Sustainability is analyzed from its diametrically opposite deforestation point of view. A multilevel approach is adopted to take into account that the causes of deforestation occur at the local, national and international levels. Accordingly, the volume contains contributions at global, continental, national, and subnational levels. One of the aims of this volume is to present a collective analysis of deforestation and sustainability using the most up-to-date, reliable and valid empirical data. The authors have been among the first scientists in the world to have had access to the new FORISdatabase recently established by the FAO. Audience: Foresters, environmentalists, conservationists, development workers, policy makers, researchers, students and teachers.
Contents: Pt. I. Global Prospects. Transition from deforestation to sustainable forestry -- a distant dream? / M. Palo and G. Mery. Geography of tropical deforestation / E. Viitanen. Modeling underlying causes of pantropical deforestation / M. Palo and E. Lehto. Pine plantations of the South / P. Hakkila. North Queensland's tropical rainforests: the world heritage controversy / E. Redfield -- Pt. II. Tropical Asia. Tropical Asian deforestation and sustainability prospects / M. Palo and E. Lehto. Change and continuity in the Philippine forest policy / O. Saastamoinen. Land use history of the Philippines / E. Uitamo. Deforestation as an environmental-economic problem in the Philippines / P. Horne. Forest degration and rehabilitation prospects in Indonesia / J. Kuusipalo. Environmental-economic evaluation of forest plantations / A. Niskanen -- Pt. III. Latin America. Latin American deforestation and sustainability prospects / M. Palo, G. Mery and E. Lehto.