World Forests, Markets and Policies

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Editorial Perspectives

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. World Forests, Markets and Policies: Towards a Balance

      • Matti Palo, Jussi Uusivuori, Gerardo Mery, Alexander V. Korotkov, David Humphreys

      Pages 3-19

3. Societies and Environments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Global Prospects of Substituting Oil by Biomass

      • Janis Gravitis, Tarcisio Della Senta, Javier González Molina, Matti Palo, Erkki Lehto, Riitta Hjerppe

      Pages 23-45

   3. Global Freshwater Resources

      • Juha I. Uitto

      Pages 47-58

4. Importance of Forests

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 59-59

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   2. Forest Set-Asides and Carbon Sequestration

      • Brent Sohngen, Roger Sedjo, Markku Kanninen, Gerardo Mery

      Pages 61-69

   3. Socioeconomic and Institutional Perspectives of Agroforestry

      • Janaki Alavalapati, P.K.R. Nair, David Barkin

      Pages 71-83

   4. Timber Plantations, Timber Supply and Forest Conservation

      • David Tomberlin, Joseph Buongiorno, José Alvarado Alegría, Kaisa Korhonen, Matti Palo

      Pages 85-96

   5. Internationalization of Forest Industries

      • Jussi Uusivuori, Susanna Laaksonen-Craig

      Pages 97-103

5. Global Forum

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 105-105

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   2. Forests and Water

      • Ian R. Hunter, Ian R. Calder, Tom Hatton

      Pages 107-119

   3. The United States Initiative on Joint Implementation: Forest Sector Projects

      • Robert K. Dixon, Carlos Eduardo Frickmann Young

      Pages 121-134

   4. Forests as a Renewable Energy Source in Europe: Prospects and Policies

      • Pentti Hakkila, Gerald C. Monela

      Pages 135-148

   5. Valuing the Multiple Functions of Forests

      • Bengt Kriström, Mattias Boman, Sebastião Kengen

      Pages 149-161

6. Regional Forum

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 163-164

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   2. World Forests and the G8 Economic Powers: from Imperialism to the Action Programme on Forests

      • Matti Palo

      Pages 165-196

   3. G8 Action Programme on Forests: Mere Rhetoric?

      • Alexander Horst

      Pages 197-205

   4. World Trade Flows of Forest Products

      • Philip Wardle, Bruce Michie

      Pages 207-217

In the 1990s the world community has arrived at a particularly in developing countries and in econo­ historical turning point. Global issues- the decline mies in transition. These three organizations have of biological diversity, climate change, the fate of different backgrounds and focuses, but have found forest peoples, fresh water scarcity, desertification, it relevant and rewarding to their core operations to deforestation and forest degradation - have come collaborate in WFSE activities. The intention of to dominate the public and political debate about these organizations is to continue supporting the forestry. In the economic sphere, forest industries WFSE research and developing the mutual collab­ have assumed global dimensions. oration. The World Forests, Society and Environment In the year 2000,WFSE took on anewchallenge, Research Program (WFSE) is a response by the re­ extending its research network to involve five new searchcommunity to thisglobalization. The WFSE Associate Partners: the Center for International slogan 'Globalization calls for global research' re­ Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Indonesia;the Cent­ flects both the means and the end of the program. er for Research and Higher Education on Natural The program is involved in promoting and execut­ Resources of Tropical America (CATIE) in Costa ing research in different parts of the world, and Rica; the International Centerfor Research inAgro­ through its publications and communications net­ Forestry (ICRAF) in Kenya; the World Forestry work, linking researchers worldwide.

• Forest sector
• Forestry
• Scale
• Sustainable forest management
• Urban forestry
• biodiversity
• climate change
• development
• forest

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