The following guidelines are based on a revision of the web pages published under FRA responsibility. Their purpose is to provide current and future contributors with basic content and style directions.
The guidelines draw on web page writing rules. Besides, they integrate relevant FAO editorial guidelines and specific forestry related recommendations for the sake of technical accuracy and objective description. Finally, they take into account the need to harmonise the national and international descriptions, names and definitions of the world forest resources.
The development of these guidelines involved the inputs and ideas of the multidisciplinary team working for the Forest Resources Assessment Programme.
The approach adopted addresses each FRA web page separately and spells out specific editorial recommendations for each of them. These recommendations are divided into two groups: Content and style.
