Unasylva - No. 188 - Funding sustainable forestry













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An international journal of forestry and forest industries - Vol. 48 - 1997/1

FAO - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

Editor: S.A. Dembner
Language Editor: R. Tucker
Layout Editor: M. Criscuolo
Editorial Advisory Board Forestry Department:
M.R. de Montalembert (Chairman), J. Anderson, J. Ball, 1.3. Bourke, S. Braatz,
J. Clement, S.A. Dembner, M. Morell, O. Serrano, P. Tesha, P. Vantomme

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Guidelines for authors

Editorial - Funding sustainable forestry

Pretoria declaration

M.E. Chipeta
Funding forestry development in Asia and the pacific, Africa and Latin America and the Caribbean

J.-L. Blanchez and Y.C. Dubé
Funding forestry in Africa

J.P. Resor
Debt-for-nature swaps: a decade of experience and new directions for the future

R.A. Crossley, T. Lent, D. Propper de Callejon and C. Sethare
Innovative financing for sustainable forestry

D. Gaviria
Economic and financial instruments for sustainable forestry in Colombia

M. Morell
Financing community forestry activities

S. Kengen
Linking forest valuation and financing

K. Keipi
Financing forest plantations in Latin America: Government incentives

A. Shvidenko and S. Nilsson
Are the Russian forests disappearing?

FAO forestry

Forest product markets and prospects
Forest products markets in 1996 and 1997
Softwoods
Hardwoods
Wood-based panels
Roundwood (pulpwood and fuelwood)
High resolution satellite imagery confirms FAO forest resource assessment data

World of forestry

Books

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