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  1. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2003
    Brazil

    The diversity of C&I sets is often a cause for uncertainty and confusion, and probably one of the reasons for the still unsatisfactory acceptance of C&I as a support for implementation of sustainable forest management so far. In order to halt this erosion of confidence in C&I the presented paper evaluated the diversity of five C&I sets (CIFOR, ACM, FSC, ITTO and Tarapoto) relevant for the Brazilian Amazon by analyzing frequencies of C&I in relation to parameters about content and quality.

  2. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2003
    Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua
  3. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2003
    Honduras, Bolivia, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Brazil, Central America, South America
  4. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2003
    Brazil

    Criteria and indicators (C&I) are tools to define, communicate and evaluate the sustainability of forest management. Since the Rio summit in 1992, numerous initiatives developed a various C&I sets as multifunctional tools to be applied for monitoring, auditing, science and decisions makers. The existing diversity of C&I sets is a cause for uncertainty and confusion, and thereby diminishes the acceptance and efficiency of the tool.

  5. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2003
    Burkina Faso, Honduras, United States of America, Guatemala, Zimbabwe, Australia, Bolivia, Austria, Malawi, Finland, Uruguay, New Zealand, Kenya, Turkey, Argentina, India, United Kingdom, Gabon, Brazil, Americas

    La Conférence internationale sur la contribution des critères et indicateurs de la gestion forestière durable: Perspectives d'avenir (CICI - 2003) a été accueillie par les Services forestiers nationaux du Guatemala (Instituto Nacional de Bosques, INAB) à Guatemala City du 3 au 7 février 2003, avec le concours de l'Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'alimentation et l'agriculture (FAO), l'Organisation internationale des bois tropicaux (OIBT) et les gouvernements de Finlande et des Etats-Unis.

  6. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2003
    Burkina Faso, Honduras, United States of America, Guatemala, Zimbabwe, Australia, Bolivia, Ghana, Malawi, Finland, Uruguay, New Zealand, Kenya, Turkey, Argentina, India, United Kingdom, Gabon, Brazil, Austria, Americas

    La Conferencia Internacional sobre la Contribución de los Criterios e Indicadores para la Ordenación Forestal Sostenible: El camino a seguir (CICI - 2003) fue organizada por el Instituto Nacional de Bosques (INAB) de Guatemala en la ciudad de Guatemala, del 3 al 7 de febrero de 2003, con el apoyo de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Agricultura y la Alimentación (FAO), la Organización Internacional de las Maderas Tropicales (OIMT) y los gobiernos de Finlandia y Estados Unidos.

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    Reports & Research
    December, 2003
    France, Switzerland, United States of America, Mauritania, China, Australia, Ghana, Iceland, Cameroon, Nigeria, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Morocco, Japan, South Africa, Tunisia, India, New Zealand, Brazil, Canada

    Forests play major roles in climate change. They contribute carbon emissions when destroyed or degraded and they suffer from changing climate, drought and extreme weather. Managed sustainably, they can provide a unique environmental service by removing excess carbon from the atmosphere, storing it in biomass, soils and products. In addition, sustainably produced wood fuels offer an environmentally benign alternative to fossil fuels.

  8. Library Resource
    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2003
    France, Bhutan, Malaysia, Fiji, China, Cameroon, Indonesia, Vanuatu, Ghana, Congo, Guyana, Costa Rica, Gabon, Brazil, Africa

    La rcolte de produits forestiers, dont le bois d'uvre est l'un des principaux produits, dans les forts denses humides tropicales, est une activit importante cologiquement, socialement et conomiquement pour de nombreux pays de l'Afrique tropicale.

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