Unasylva - No. 112-113 - Management and utilization of the tropical moist forest - from the FAO Committee on forest development in the tropics - extracts













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Vol. 28

1976 II-III

An international review of forestry and forest products

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T.M. Pasca, editor, Forestry Department

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Editorial: A new awareness of terra incognita

Origin of the articles in this special issue

Adrian Sommer
Attempt at an assessment of the world's tropical moist forests

S. Kolade Adeyoju
Land use and tenure in the tropics

Jean-Paul Lanly
Tropical moist forest inventories for industrial investment decisions

Franz Schmithüsen
Forest utilization contracts on public land in the tropics

T.J. Synnott and R.H. Kemp
Choosing the best silvicultural system

Henri Chauvin
Opening up the tropical moist forest and harvesting the timber

Börje Kyrklund
Paper from mixed tropical forests

Jean Collardet
Processing hard-to-process and lesser used species

S.L. Pringle
Tropical moist forests in world demand, supply and trade

Theo Erfurth
Toward the wider use of tropical wood products

Duncan Poore
The values of tropical moist forest ecosystems and the environmental consequences of their removal

References

Land use and tenure in the tropics
Paper from mixed tropical forests
Forest: utilization contracts on public land in the tropics
Attempt at an assessment of the world's tropical moist forests
Choosing the best silvicultural system
The role of tropical moist forests in world demand, supply and trade of forest products
The values of tropical moist forest ecosystems

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