Illinois report on sustainable forest management
Subtitle: criteria and indicators : technical report prepared for the Illinois Forestry Development Council
By: Lyle J. Guyon and John M. Edgington.
Contributors: Edgington, John M.; Illinois Forestry Development Council.
Edition: Rev. 2004.
Publisher: Illinois Forestry Development Council
Published: 2004
Place of publication: [Urbana, Ill.]
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Subjects: Sustainable forestry -- Illinois.; Forest management -- Illinois.; Forest ecology -- Illinois.; Forest policy -- Illinois.
Other titles: Sustainable forest management criteria and indicators technical report
Description: The Montreal Process Criteria and Indicators for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Temperate and Boreal Forests (developed at a United Nations conference in 1993) serves as the tool for assessing trends in forest conditions and provides a framework for describing, monitoring and evaluating progress toward forest sustainability in Illinois. Criteria are essentially large-scale catergories that reflect public values and scientific principles while indicators provide the means for measuring an aspect of a criterion. Montreal Process countries identified seven criteria containing a total of 67 indicators as essential components in sustainable management of forest ecosystems.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Title from title screen.
"Revised: May 02, 2004."
"October 2003"--P. 2.
"Funding and support provided by the Illinois Forestry Development Council, Illinois Dept. of Natural Resources, and the Dept. of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign"--P. 3.
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Table of contents: title: Introduction.; title: Criterion 1: Conservation of biological diversity.; title: Criterion 2: Maintenance of productive capacity of forest ecosystems.; title: Criterion 3: Maintenance of forest ecosystem health and vitality.; title: Criterion 4: Conservation and maintenance of soil and water resources.; title: Criterion 5: Maintenance of forest contribution to global carbon cycles.; title: Criterion 6: Maintenance and enhancement of long-term multiple socio-economic benefits to meet the needs of societies.; title: Criterion 7: Legal, institutional and economic framework for forest, conservation and sustainable management.; title: Data and resource issues.