By
Don Wijewardana10
Organized by the
Forest Management Bureau
Department of
Environment and Natural Resources
Philippines
Co-sponsored by FAO and
ITTO
2 - 4 March 2004; Cebu City, Philippines
ATO |
African Timber Organization |
C&I |
Criteria and indicators |
CICI |
International Conference on the Contribution of Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management: The Way Forward; Guatemala 02/2003 |
CIFOR |
Center for International Forestry Research |
COFO |
Committee on Forestry |
CPF |
Collaborative Partnership on Forests |
DFAS |
Dry Forest Asia initiative on criteria and indicators |
DZAF |
Dry Zone Africa process on criteria and indicators |
FAO |
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |
FRA |
Forest Resources Assessment (coordinated by FAO) |
GEF |
Global Environment Facility (of the World Bank) |
IFF |
Intergovernmental Forum on Forests |
IPF |
Intergovernmental Panel on Forests |
ITTO |
International Tropical Timber Organization |
MAR |
Monitoring, assessment and reporting |
MCPFE |
Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe |
MPCI |
Montreal process on criteria and indicators |
NEP |
Near East process on criteria and indicators |
SFM |
Sustainable forest management |
TAC |
Technical Advisory Committee |
UNEP |
United Nations Environment Programme |
UNCED |
United Nations Conference on Environment and Development |
UNFF |
United Nations Forum on Forests |
Author gratefully acknowledges the input and helpful comments provided by the following: Kathryn Buchanan, Froylán Castañeda, Muzaffer Dogru, Peter Mayer, Eva Mueller, Steven Johnson, Ram Prasad, Ewald Rametsteiner, Tiina Vähänen, Robert Hendricks, Emmanuel Siisi-Wilson and Jinhua Zhang.
10 Director, International Forestry Policy, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, P.O. Box 2526, Wellington, New Zealand. E-mail: [email protected]; Tel: +64 4 4989870; Fax: +64 4 4989891.
