FAO wishes to acknowledge the excellent work done by Mr. Ian Armitage, main author of the document. Furthermore, FAO sincerely thanks the following persons for collaborating as external reviewers and for providing useful comments in the course of the preparation of the handbook: Jean-Paul Lanly, initiator and supporter of the idea, now with the Regional Council of Rural Engineering for Water Resources, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Paris, France; B. von der Hyde, GTZ, and Thang Hooi Chiew, Forestry Department, Malaysia; B. Hahn-Schilling, FOMISS-GTZ, Sarawak, Malaysia; E. Kleine, Malaysia-German Sustainable Forest Management Project; Niro Higuchi, INPA, Manaus, Brazil; Richard Bruce, Selva Madera Ltda., Brazil; Tim van Eldik, Precious Woods, Brazil; the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), Indonesia; and the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO), Japan.
Colleagues in the Forestry Department of FAO were closely involved in the work; their individual and collective assistance and support is acknowledged.
ACRONYMS
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AAC |
Annual Allowable Cut |
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ACA |
Annual Cutting Area |
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CAI |
Current Annual Increment (m3/ha/year) |
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CFI |
Continuous Forest Inventory |
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CIFOR |
Center for International Forestry Research |
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DCF |
Discounted Cash-flow |
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FAO |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
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GDP |
Gross Domestic Product |
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GIS |
Geographic Information System |
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GPS |
Global Positioning System |
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IRR |
Internal Rate of Return |
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ITTO |
International Tropical Timber Organization |
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MAI |
Mean Annual Increment (m3/ha/year) |
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NGO |
Non-governmental organization |
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NPV |
Net Present Value |
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NWFP (s) |
Non-wood Forest Product (s) |
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PAME |
Participatory Assessment Monitoring and Evaluation |
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PCT |
Potential Crop Trees |
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PRA |
Participatory Rural Appraisal |
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RRA |
Rapid Rural Appraisal |
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UNDP |
United Nations Development Programme |
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UNEP |
United Nations Environment Programme |
ABBREVIATIONS
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dbh |
diameter at breast height (1.3 metres above ground level) |
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ha |
hectare |
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km2 |
square kilometres |
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m |
metres |
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m3 |
cubic metres |
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mill |
millions |
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m3/ha |
cubic metres per hectare |
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sp/ha |
stems per hectare |
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vol |
volume |
