Working Document
Integrating Criteria and Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management in the National Forest Programmes
Mr. SO Thirong Patrick
Consultant
November 1997
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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In the final report of the Inter-Governmental Panel on Forestry (IPF), it was explicitly recommended that the countries consider the integration of Criteria and Indicators of sustainable forest management in the National Forest Programmes (NFP). A similar recommendation also concerns information stemming from forest resources assessment (FRA). |
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I. NATIONAL FOREST PROGRAMMES AND CRITERIA & INDICATORS OF SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT
A. National Forest Programmes
B. Criteria and Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management
C. Complementary Procedures
A. Use of the Indicators
B. Limitation of Indicators
C. Un-used Indicators
IV. A PROCEDURE TO BE CONDUCTED
A. What to Retain of the Integration of Criteria and Indicators in the NFP process?
B. Possible Implementation
V. THE ROLE OF FOREST RESOURCES ASSESSMENT SYSTEMS
ANNEX 2: THE INDICATORS RECOGNISED IN THE SECTOR-BASED NFP STUDIES
ANNEX 3: INDICATORS RECOGNISED IN THE NFPS OF THE COUNTRIES STUDIED
ANNEX 4: INDICATORS DEFINED FOLLOWING THE NFP THEMES
ANNEX 5: PROPOSITIONS FOR THE USE OF CRITERIA AND INDICATORS
ANNEX 6: POSSIBLE INDICATORS FOR SECTOR-BASED STUDIES OF THE NFP PROCESS
ANNEX 7: THE INDICATORS OF GFRA 2000 AND THEIR ROLE IN THE NFP PROCESS