Re-inventing forestry agencies

  

RAP PUBLICATION 2008/05

Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission

Re-inventing forestry agencies
Experiences of institutional restructuring in Asia and the Pacific

Edited by: Patrick Durst, Chris Brown, Jeremy Broadhead, Regan Suzuki, Robin Leslie and Akiko Inoguchi

 

FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS REGIONAL OFFICE FOR ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

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ISBN 978-974-06-1218-6


CONTENTS

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Overview: re-inventing forestry institutions

Public sector forestry agencies at the cross-roads: are they fading into irrelevance?
C.T.S. Nair

Re-inventing forestry agencies: institutional restructuring of forestry agencies in Viet Nam since 1994
Tan Quang Nguyen

Re-inventing the United States Forest Service: evolution of national forests from custodial management, to production forestry, to ecosystem management
Doug MacCleery, USDA/Forest Service

Re-inventing the forestry agencies of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Philippines: a case study
Renato A. de Rueda

Institutional restructuring, reforms and other changes within the New Zealand forestry sector since 1986
Colin O'Loughlin

Re-inventing forestry agencies: institutional innovation to support community forestry in Nepal
Keshav Raj Kanel and Dhruba Prasad Acharya

Institutional restructuring in Sarawak, Malaysia
Barney Chan

Re-inventing forestry agencies: establishment and institutional restructuring of the Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) since 1986
H. Norini

Re-inventing forestry agencies: establishment of the Chhattisgarh Forest Department - processes and key issues
R.C. Sharma

Reform of the forest sector in China
Zhang Lei