Forest Management Working Paper 27


 

Computerized Data Gathering and Networking as a Control and Monitoring System for the Improvement of and Reporting on Forest Management in the Amazon: the Case of Brazil

SISPROF

Computerized and Integrated Control and Monitoring System of Forestry Resources and Products

Based on the work by:
Antonio Carlos do Prado
Francisco José de Barros Cavalcanti
Paulo José Prudente de Fontes
June 2005


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Mr Froylán Castañeda,
Forestry Officer (Tropical Forest Management)
Forest Resources Development Service Forest Resources Division
Forestry Department
FAO
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For quotation:

FAO (2005). Computerized Data Gathering and Networking as a Control and Monitoring System for the improvement of and reporting on forest management in the Amazon: the case of Brazil. By Antonio Carlos do Prado, Francisco José de Barros Cavalcanti and Paulo José Prudente de Fontes. Forest Management Working Papers, Working Paper 27. Forest Resources Development Service, Forest Resources Division. FAO, Rome (unpublished). FAO 2005

Contents


ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

ACRONYMS/ABBREVIATIONS

1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

2. INTRODUCTION

3. THE BRAZILIAN AMAZON: SOME FEATURES OF THE STUDY AREA
3.1 Legal Amazon – definition and forest cover
3.2 Population dynamics
3.3 Soils, climate and present use of land in Legal Amazonia

3.4 Dynamics of timber exploitation and timber industry in Legal Amazonia

3.5 “Command and control” of deforestation and of forest resource use and access: progress of regulation and enforcement

4. SISPROF – GENERAL DESCRIPTION
4.1 Geo-processing in SISPROF

4.2 The SISPROF data bank
4.3 - Diagram of the work-flow of SISPROF (including SISMAD)
4.4 - Diagram of the flow of the stamp of origin

5. CONTROL AND MONITORING OF FOREST MANAGEMENT IN SISPROF
5.1 The direction and management from Brasilia headquarters and the advanced bases: their functions and articulation in the planning of activities

5.2 Participation of private industry in SISPROF, with emphasis on PMFS: commitments and advantages 5.3 SISPROF and local communities, with emphasis on sustainable forest management plans (PMFS)
5.4 Activities, equipment and methodology of action after the gathering of field data on PMFS
5.5 Post-exploitation activities

6. The costs of SFM and of SISPROF

7. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Bibliographical references

List of tables, maps and figures

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