Proposals for a Legally Binding Global Convention on Forests, debated and rejected at the 1992 UNCED Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero, re-surface periodically at international fora. The case for concerted global action rests on the existence of ‘international problems’, where this is the only effec...
Glück, P.
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Tarasoffsky, R.G.
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Byron, R.N.
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Tikkanen, I.
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[Options for strengthening the international legal regime for forests: a report prepared for the European Commission under the study contract B7-8110/96/000221/D4 (proposal for a legally-binding instrument on forest)]
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Options for strengthening the international legal regime for forests: a report prepared for the European Commission under the study contract B7-8110/96/000221/D4 (proposal for a legally-binding instrument on forest)
The importance of forest products to households living in or near forests has been increasingly recognized. Estimates of numbers of people who in some way rely on forests, for survival or livelihoods, vary widely. Yet numbers alone do not reveal the forests' importance to diverse users. A typolog...
Proposals for a Legally Binding Global Convention on Forests, debated and rejected at the 1992 UNCED Earth Summit in Rio de Janiero, re-surface periodically at international fora. The case for concerted global action rests on the existence of 'international problems', where this is the only effec...
Glück, P.
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Tarasoffsky, R.G.
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Byron, R.N.
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Tikkanen, I.
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[Options for Strengthening the International Legal Regime for Forests. A Report to the European Union under the study contract B7-8110/96/000221/D4 by EFI, IUCN/IELC and CIFOR. Joensuu, Finland. 78 p.]
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Options for Strengthening the International Legal Regime for Forests. A Report to the European Union under the study contract B7-8110/96/000221/D4 by EFI, IUCN/IELC and CIFOR. Joensuu, Finland. 78 p.
Important benefits are derived from forests. Decisions regarding production of forest benefits generally are made locally, or at most nationally (by national governments). Yet, many of the benefits are global and lie outside the context of local or national decisions. They are what economists cal...
Gregersen, Hans
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Lundren, A.
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Kengen, S.
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Byron, R.N.
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[Measuring and capturing forest values issues for the decision-maker]
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Measuring and capturing forest values issues for the decision-maker
The world is moving towards knowledge-based societies. Economies are globalising. The global public goods value of forests is being recognised at the same time that traditional role of state forest agencies in production forestry is declining, in part being taken over by multi-national corporatio...
Byron, R.N.
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Sayer, Jeffrey A.
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[Forest science research needs and priorities for sustainable forest management]
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Forest science research needs and priorities for sustainable forest management