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Tropical
Forestry
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 FOREST MANAGEMENT
 Sustainable Forest Management - Issues Paper.
Written by FAO for the WB Policy Review. August 1999.
Can be downloaded from the World bank web page covering the Forest Policy Review:
http://wbln0018.worldbank.org/essd/forestpol-e.nsf/MainView
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This paper provides a good overview of examples of good forest management and highlights the limited
number of such cases.
Good background for the issues.
Sustainable Forest Management
A Review of Current Conventional Wisdom.
This paper is written by Conservation International under commission from the WB Development Research
Group.
Provides another, very different viewpoint to that of the traditional forester. It takes the stance
that SFM will always have
minimal economic viability due to a combination of slow growth and minimal real price increases
on one hand and the competing
high interest rates that seem to dominate the market sector in LDCs.
A Sustainable Forest Future
D. Pearce, F. Putz and J. Vanclay
CSERGE, September 1999
This paper was commissioned by DFID to provide a competing view to that provided by the Conservation
International stance
above. Provides an answer to some of the economic limitations of SFM - highlights the importance of
carbon sequestration in the
equation. Again available from the WB Forest Policy Implementation Review web site.
Measuring Trees and Forests: Second Edition
Philip, Michael S
CABI Publishing, 336 pp.
ISBN 0-85198-883-0
An essential general reference for those involved in forest mensuration.
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