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ISBN 13: 9781853839900
Author: Duncan Poore

This is the history of the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO); its aims, policies and achievements, through drawing on contemporary records and the author's own wide experience. The book uses examination of past successes and failures to formulate a 21st-century agenda for the most practical ways of improving the management of forests and deciding forest policies.

Changing Landscapes 1st Table of contents:

1 The rise and fall of forests
2 Sustainable forest management: a response to destruction
Introduction
The Tropical Forest Problem
Variety
Land Use and Management – the Two Elements of Sustainability
Some history
Land use planning and the balance of uses
Forest management
What is sustainable management?
What is the sustainable production of timber?
Intensities of management
Wider Considerations
The trade and the future sources of its timber
The national economic context of forest management
The social context
Conservation – the moving target
International dovetailing
3 Genesis of a treaty: the ITTA takes shape
Phase 1
Phase 2
Phase 3
4 ITTO's early days: optimism and experiment
The International Tropical Timber Agreement
Other International Initiatives
The 2nd Session of Council – Yokohama, March 1987
The 3rd Session of Council – Yokohama, November 1987
The 4th Session of Council – Rio de Janeiro, June–July 1988
5 First assessment: living in a fool's paradise
Introduction
The Definition of Issues
The Findings of the Study
The Conditions for Sustainable Production
Long-term security
Security for the managers
Operational control
A suitable financial environment
Adequate information
Conditions of Success
Recommendations to the International Tropical Timber Council – November 1988
Recommended actions
Consideration by the International Tropical Timber Council at its 5th Session
6 From Abidjan to Bali_ a radical new agenda
The Context
The 6th Session of Council – Abidjan, May 1989
The 7th Session of Council – Yokohama, November 1989
The 8th Session of Council – Bali, May 1990
Guidelines
The Guidelines for the Sustainable Management of Natural Tropical Forests
The Year 2000 Objective
7 The case of Sarawak
The Mission
The Task of the Mission
The ‘Native Peoples' Question
Forestry in Sarawak
The Constitutional position
The Sarawak Land Code
The Sarawak Forest Policy
Findings of the Mission
Sustainability of timber yield
Available land
Potential yields
Possible sustainable yields
The consequences of ‘business as usual'
The effect of present timber extraction on future yield
Logging and local communities
Environmental sustainability
Catchment management
Biological diversity
Economic sustainability
The Assessment
Recommendations
Reception at the International Tropical Timber Council
8 Ferment 1990–1992
International Tropical Timber Organization Action Plan 1990
The Quito Round Table and the Year 2000 Target
Other Issues at Quito
Trade
NGO attitudes
Policy development
The 11th Session of Council – Yokohama, November 1991
Progress towards the Year 2000 Objective
The 12th and 13th Sessions of Council – Yaounde and Yokohama, May and November 1992
Impatience
Trade
Projects and their funding
Attitudes
9 Tropical forests, or all forests? Renegotiating the ITTA
International Tropical Timber Agreement, 1994
10 Has the tropical timber trade any leverage? Policies 1991–1995
Criteria and Indicators
The Development of Forest Resource Accounting
Economic Linkages

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