Sustainable Forestry Challenges for Developing Countries

1. Front Matter

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2. Global Prospects

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Transition from Deforestation to Sustainable Forestry — A Distant Dream?

      • Matti Palo, Gerardo Mery

      Pages 1-13

   3. Geography of Tropical Deforestation

      • Erkki Viitanen

      Pages 15-26

   4. Modeling Underlying Causes of Pantropical Deforestation

      • Matti Palo, Erkki Lehto

      Pages 27-61

   5. Pine Plantations of the South

      • Pentti Hakkila

      Pages 63-76

   6. North Queensland’s Tropical Rainforests: The World Heritage Controversy

      • Edmund Redfield

      Pages 77-90

3. Tropical Asia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 91-91

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   2. Tropical Asian Deforestation and Sustainability Prospects

      • Matti Palo, Erkki Lehto

      Pages 93-119

   3. Change and Continuity in the Philippine Forest Policy

      • Olli Saastamoinen

      Pages 121-139

   4. Land Use History of the Philippines

      • Elina Uitamo

      Pages 141-156

   5. Deforestation as an Environmental-Economic Problem in the Philippines

      • Paula Horne

      Pages 157-173

   6. Forest Degradation and Rehabilitation Prospects in Indonesia

      • Jussi Kuusipalo

      Pages 175-186

   7. Environmental-Economic Evaluation of Forest Plantations

      • Anssi Niskanen

      Pages 187-196

4. Latin America

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 197-197

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   2. Latin American Deforestation and Sustainability Prospects

      • Matti Palo, Gerardo Mery, Erkki Lehto

      Pages 199-228

   3. The Roasted Forests

      • Simo Laakkonen

      Pages 229-247

   4. Sustainable Management of Forest Plantations and Natural Forests in Chile

      • Gerardo Mery

      Pages 249-274

   5. Deforestation in the Chaqueña Region in Argentina

      • Martin Aguerre, Gerardo Denegri

      Pages 275-288

5. Tropical Africa

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 289-289

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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.

• Conservation
• Deforestation
• Environmental economics
• Plantation
• Rainforest
• Silviculture
• development
• forest
• forest policy

• Finnish Forest Research Institute, Helsinki, Finland

  Matti Palo, Gerardo Mery

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