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Appendix 6: Institutions

Topics included: Inventories, early warming systems (especially fires), monitoring systems.

INSTITUTION

WORKING ISSUE

GEOGRAPHIC AREA

MODELS / METHODS

REFERENCES / OTHER REMARKS

TREES

Monitoring forests using remote sensing

Tropical forests

Intensive data collection

In the future they want to develop an operational deforestation monitoring system

IUFRO

http://iufro.fpp.csiro.au/iufro/publications/pub.htm

Conference on Assessment and monitoring of forests in Tropical Dry Regions with special reference to gallery forests

Arid land and gallery forest

Arid land and gallery forests

Combination and selection of models

Reference: Lund, Gyde 1997. Primer on Designing Arid Land and Gallery Forest Resources. University of Brasilia. Brazil.

Collected from IUFRO virtual library

CIFOR

Economic model of tropical deforestation

Review of 150 models to understand the causes of deforestation.

Global proposal

After reviewing 150 models the author found that multicountry regression models have limited value. He recommended a shift toward household and regional level studies.

Reference: Kaimowitz, D. Author Angelsen Arild. 1998. Economic Models of Tropical Deforestation. Indonesia. Collected from IUFRO virtual library

UNIVERSITY OF KYOTO

Case studies

Sustainable management of small-scale forestry. Financial models for small scale farm forestry.

Japan

No summary.

Reference: Herbohn J. Harrison S. Emtage E. 1997 Financial Models for Small Scale Farm Forestry. Kyoto University. Japan. Collected from IUFRO virtual library

WRI

Joint publication WRI, UNEP, UNDP and WB.

Based on FAO Global Forests Assessment 1990. Global Synthesis. FAO Forest Paper 124. Rome 1995.

Presents a summary of the FAO FRA 1990 and a summary of the forest policy instruments UNCED convention, World Commission on Forest and Sustainable Development and CITES.

International document

 

Reference: WRI. UNEP. UNDP. WB. 1996. World Resources 1996-1997. Oxford University Press. USA.

Secondary reference: Wilcox B. Duin. 1995. Global Forest Assessment (1990) Potential forest cover differences as a global indicator. Draft report. Institute for sustainable development. USA.

Singh K.D. Marzoli W.A. Deforestation Trends in the Tropics: a time series analysis. Conference WWF, Puerto Rico. 1995

Reed N. Cooperrider A. 1994. Saving Nature’s Legacy. Protecting and restoring biodiversity. Washington,

 

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