Tropical Forestry Must Read List

bullet1 RESEARCH

bullet2 IUFRO The International Union of Forestry Research Organisations

http://iufro.boku.ac.at/iufro/

IUFRO is a non-profit, non- governmental, voluntary, international scientific union open to all organisations and individuals involved in forestry research. IUFRO’s activities are organized primarily through its 277 specialized Units in 8 technical Divisions.

IUFRO was officially founded in 1892 at Eberswalde, Germany. Initially called International Union of Forest Experiment Stations, IUFRO has grown to more than 700 member-institutions at present, 115 countries are represented, with about 15,000 participating scientists. Its original purposes—information sharing, cooperation, and coordination, in the broadest sense—remain similar. But the breadth and depth of its interests have expanded to embrace virtually all the scientific aspects of forestry and forest products including such facilitating disciplines as management and information science and history, as well as extended cooperation with other scientific and professional organizations.

bullet2 CIFOR Centre for International Forest Research


CIFOR was established under the CGIAR system in response to global concerns about the social, environmental and economic consequences of loss and degradation of forests. It operates through a series of highly decentralised partnerships with key institutions and/or individuals throughout the developing and industrialised worlds. The nature and duration of these partnerships is determined by the specific research problems being addressed.
Web pages provide summaries of current research activities  including the criteria and indicators study as part of the concerns over SFM and the development of the new TROPIS data base -  Tree Growth and Permanent Plot Information System, which seeks to help forest scientists make better use of existing tree growth information.

bullet2 ETFRN European Tropical Forest Research Network

http://www.etfrn.org/etfrn

Very good weblinks provided to a wide range of institutes -both within Europe and those of global concern and provides direct access to those pages covering global forestry/environmental initiatives

bullet2 DFID The Forestry Research Programme

http://www.devstud.org.uk/researchguide/Centres/DFID-forestry.htm

bullet2 EFI European Forestry Institute

http://www.efi.fi

EFI’s mission is to: promote, conduct and co-operate in research of forests, forestry and forest products at the pan-European level and to make the results of the research known to all interested parties, notably in the areas of policy formulation and implementation, in order to promote the conservation and sustainable management of forests in Europe.
Some useful links to European Institutes and news and documents available on the web. Databases available to member organisations only and  restricted to European matters.  However some issues do cover the global concerns e.g. recent proceedings on National Forestry Programmes.  The Certification Information Service can be accessed through the EFI home page.