State of Forests of the Caucasus and Central Asia: Overview of forests and sustainable forest management in the Caucasus and Central Asia region

Genf

2019

121

Bandaufführung

978-92-1-117160-0978-92-1-363291-8

204152

The study on the state of forests in the Caucasus and Central Asia aims to present the forest resources and the forest sector of the region, including trends in, and pressures on the resource, to describe the policies and institutions for the forest sector in the region and to list the major challenges the sector faces, and the policy responses in place or planned. The study is a cooperative effort by the author, the UNECE/FAO secretariat and national experts, done with the use of the best available data. It attempts to cover all dimensions of sustainable forest management and includes national overviews of all countries of the region
Preface ; Acknowledgements ; List of national correspondents: ; List of abbreviations ; 1 Introduction and mandate ; Process and timetable ; Method ; Principles and methods of the system ; Definitions of a few key terms ; Parameters used in the assessment of sustainable forest management ; Results of the pilot study ; Results by indicator ; Results by country ; Discussion ; Feasibility of the SEMAFOR approach to assessment ; Desirability of common thresholds ; Values of the thresholds ; Alternatives to common thresholds? Weak impact of the SEMAFOR results, and possible remedies ; Conclusions ; List of references ; Annex