Ebook: Sustainable Forestry Challenges for Developing Countries

This book is an outcome of a research project on "Sustainable Forestry and the Environment in Developing Countries". The project has been run by Metsantutki­ muslaitos METLA -the Finnish Forest Research Institute since 1987 and will be completed this year. A major output by this project has so far been a report in three volumes on "Deforestation or development in the Third World?" The purpose of our multidisciplinary research project is to generate new knowl­ edge about the causes of deforestation, its scenarios and consequences. More knowledge is needed for more effective, efficient and equitable public policy, both at the national and intemationallevels in supporting sustainable forestry in develop­ ing countries. Our project has specifically focused on 90 tropical countries as one group and on three subgroups by continents, as well as the three case study countries, the Philippines, Ethiopia and Chile. The University of Joensuu has been our active partner in the Philippine study. We have complemented the three cases by the analyzes of Brazil and Indonesia, the two largest tropical forest-owning countries. Some other interesting country studies were annexed to complement our book both by geography and expertise. The United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research, UNUIWIDER in Helsinki Finland has also been partly engaged. Most of the results from its project on "The Forest in the South and North in Context of Global Warming" will, however, be published later in a separate book.

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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.
The contributions are also of a multidisciplinary character and represent issues such as forest economics and policy, forest mensurations and inventory, tropical silviculture, land use economics, environmental economics and history, as well as geography and political history.
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 FORIS database recently established by the FAO.
Audience: Foresters, environmentalists, conservationists, development workers, policy makers, researchers, students and teachers.

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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.
The contributions are also of a multidisciplinary character and represent issues such as forest economics and policy, forest mensurations and inventory, tropical silviculture, land use economics, environmental economics and history, as well as geography and political history.
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 FORIS database recently established by the FAO.
Audience: Foresters, environmentalists, conservationists, development workers, policy makers, researchers, students and teachers.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages N1-N1
Transition from Deforestation to Sustainable Forestry — A Distant Dream?....Pages 1-13
Geography of Tropical Deforestation....Pages 15-26
Modeling Underlying Causes of Pantropical Deforestation....Pages 27-61
Pine Plantations of the South....Pages 63-76
North Queensland’s Tropical Rainforests: The World Heritage Controversy....Pages 77-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Tropical Asian Deforestation and Sustainability Prospects....Pages 93-119
Change and Continuity in the Philippine Forest Policy....Pages 121-139
Land Use History of the Philippines....Pages 141-156
Deforestation as an Environmental-Economic Problem in the Philippines....Pages 157-173
Forest Degradation and Rehabilitation Prospects in Indonesia....Pages 175-186
Environmental-Economic Evaluation of Forest Plantations....Pages 187-196
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
Latin American Deforestation and Sustainability Prospects....Pages 199-228
The Roasted Forests....Pages 229-247
Sustainable Management of Forest Plantations and Natural Forests in Chile....Pages 249-274
Deforestation in the Chaquena Region in Argentina....Pages 275-288
Front Matter....Pages 289-289
Deforestation in Tropical Africa....Pages 291-310
Man and Forest in African History....Pages 311-326
Deforestation and Forest Plantations in Ethiopia....Pages 327-342
Deforestation and Sustainable Forestry Challenge in Ghana....Pages 343-357
Kenya Forestry Master Plan....Pages 359-369
Back Matter....Pages 371-387

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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.
The contributions are also of a multidisciplinary character and represent issues such as forest economics and policy, forest mensurations and inventory, tropical silviculture, land use economics, environmental economics and history, as well as geography and political history.
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 FORIS database recently established by the FAO.
Audience: Foresters, environmentalists, conservationists, development workers, policy makers, researchers, students and teachers.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Front Matter....Pages N1-N1
Transition from Deforestation to Sustainable Forestry — A Distant Dream?....Pages 1-13
Geography of Tropical Deforestation....Pages 15-26
Modeling Underlying Causes of Pantropical Deforestation....Pages 27-61
Pine Plantations of the South....Pages 63-76
North Queensland’s Tropical Rainforests: The World Heritage Controversy....Pages 77-90
Front Matter....Pages 91-91
Tropical Asian Deforestation and Sustainability Prospects....Pages 93-119
Change and Continuity in the Philippine Forest Policy....Pages 121-139
Land Use History of the Philippines....Pages 141-156
Deforestation as an Environmental-Economic Problem in the Philippines....Pages 157-173
Forest Degradation and Rehabilitation Prospects in Indonesia....Pages 175-186
Environmental-Economic Evaluation of Forest Plantations....Pages 187-196
Front Matter....Pages 197-197
Latin American Deforestation and Sustainability Prospects....Pages 199-228
The Roasted Forests....Pages 229-247
Sustainable Management of Forest Plantations and Natural Forests in Chile....Pages 249-274
Deforestation in the Chaquena Region in Argentina....Pages 275-288
Front Matter....Pages 289-289
Deforestation in Tropical Africa....Pages 291-310
Man and Forest in African History....Pages 311-326
Deforestation and Forest Plantations in Ethiopia....Pages 327-342
Deforestation and Sustainable Forestry Challenge in Ghana....Pages 343-357
Kenya Forestry Master Plan....Pages 359-369
Back Matter....Pages 371-387
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