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Society, economy and forests: The unfolding forest transition in China and the lessons for the future













FAO. 2021. Society, economy and forests: The unfolding forest transition In China and lessons for the future. Bangkok. 




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    FAO has identified forest management certification as an important tool in support of the sustainable use and conservation of forests. Certification provides an opportunity to strengthen comprehensive approaches in the forestry sector because it deals with issues related to forest management and ecological and social sustainability. China is one of the world's largest wood producing countries and has rapidly become a leading producer of value-added wood products for export. As such, it must deal with issues of forest certification for the purpose of improving its forest management and to maintain or increase its market share. Over the past decade there has been a proliferation of certification schemes in different countries and at different levels. China is interested in developing a single, coherent national forest certification strategy. A workshop was therefore organized in Hangzhou, China from 21 to 23 July 2004 to explore various options. This report provides an overview of the wo rkshop and main recommendations for China.
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    Management and utilization of the tropical moist forest - from the FAO Committee on forest development in the tropics - extracts 1976
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    This special issue of Unasylva has two main objectives. It brings to our readers an edited selection of some of the position papers of the important 4th Session of the FAO Committee on Forestry Development in the Tropics and, in doing, this, it emphasizes FAO's principal concern in the field of forestry: how to make the best and wisest use of man's least understood ecological formation, the moist tropical forest.

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