Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study: Forest Resources and Roundwood Supply in the Asia Pacific Countries: Situation and Outlook to the Year 2010













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WORKING PAPER SERIES

Working Paper No.: APFSOS/WP/17

by

J.L. Blanchez
Forestry Officer
FAO Forestry Policy and Planning Division
Rome, Italy

Forestry Policy and Planning Division, Rome
Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok

July 1997

The Asia-Pacific Forestry Sector Outlook Study is being undertaken under the auspices of the Asia-Pacific Forestry Commission.

This report comes under Workplan Number 25.1.

This electronic document has been scanned using optical character recognition (OCR) software and careful manual recorrection. Even if the quality of digitalisation is high, the FAO declines all responsibility for any discrepancies that may exist between the present document and its original printed version.


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INFORMATION NOTE ON ASIA-PACIFIC FORESTRY SECTOR OUTLOOK STUDY

PART I - MAIN REPORT

1. INTRODUCTION

2. METHODOLOGY

2.1 The approach
2.2 The structure of the study
2.3 The model

2.3.1 Assumptions
2.3.2 The parameters

2.4 The Projection

2.4.1 Information sources
2.4.2 Country profiles and sub-regional analysis

3. DEFINITION OF THE PARAMETERS AND FORMULAS USED IN THE WOOD SUPPLY PROJECTION

3.1 Forest resources parameters
3.2 Projection parameters
3.3 The supply projection

4. RESULTS: FOREST RESOURCES SITUATION AND ROUNDWOOD SUPPLY IN ASIA PACIFIC REGION

4.1 Forests and wooded lands in land use

4.1.1 1995 status
4.1.2 Projected 2010 situation

4.2 Roundwood production potential

4.2.1 1995 status
4.2.2 Projected 2010 situation

4.3 Roundwood fellings

4.3.1 1995 situation
4.3.2 Projected 2010 situation

4.4 Comparison between wood production potential and fellings: Industrial roundwood, fuelwood and total roundwood supply (SI = wood stock increment)

PART II - COUNTRY PROFILES AND SUB-REGIONAL ANALYSIS

NORTH ASIA - SUB-REGIONAL STATUS AND PROJECTION ANALYSIS

CHINA
JAPAN
MONGOLIA
KOREA (DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF)
KOREA (REPUBLIC OF)

OCEANIA PACIFIC - SUB-REGIONAL STATUS AND PROJECTION ANALYSIS

AUSTRALIA
PAPUA NEW GUINEA
NEW ZEALAND
MELANESIA ISLANDS
POLYNESIA ISLANDS

INSULAR ASIA - SUB-REGIONAL STATUS AND PROJECTION

INDONESIA
MALAYSIA
PHILIPPINES

CONTINENTAL SOUTH-EAST ASIA SUB-REGIONAL STATUS & PROJECTION ANALYSIS

MYANMAR
VIETNAM
LAOS (PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF)
THAILAND
CAMBODIA

SOUTH ASIA - SUB-REGIONAL STATUS AND PROJECTION ANALYSIS

INDIA
NEPAL
PAKISTAN
BHUTAN
SRI LANKA
BANGLADESH

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