Foreword ....................................................... iv
Acknowledgements ............................................... vi
Acronyms and abbreviations .................................... vii
Executive summary .............................................. ix
Chapter 1: The state of forest resources - a regional
analysis ..................................................... 1
Africa ....................................................... 3
Asia and the Pacific ......................................... 8
Europe ...................................................... 13
Latin America and the Caribbean ............................. 17
The Near East ............................................... 21
North America ............................................... 24
Chapter 2: Developing sustainable forest industries ............ 29
Driving forces affecting forest industries .................. 30
Strategic choices for the future of the forest industry ..... 43
Summary and conclusions ..................................... 56
Chapter 3: The role of forests in climate change adaptation
and mitigation .............................................. 57
Forests in the Kyoto Protocol ............................... 58
Progress on forest-related climate change negotiations ...... 60
Forest carbon tenure: implications for sustainable REDD+
projects .................................................... 63
Strengthening the role of adaptation in climate change
policies .................................................... 71
Summary and conclusions ..................................... 75
Chapter 4: The local value of forests .......................... 77
Traditional knowledge ....................................... 78
Community-based forest management and small and medium
forest enterprises .......................................... 81
Non-cash values of forests .................................. 88
Challenges and emerging issues .............................. 92
Summary and conclusions ..................................... 98
Annex .......................................................... 99
Notes on the annex tables .................................. 100
Table l: Basic data on countries and areas ................. 101
Table 2: Forest area and area change ....................... 110
Table 3: Carbon stock and stock change in living forest
biomass ........................................... 119
Table 4: Production, trade and consumption of woodfuel,
roundwood and sawnwood, 2008 ...................... 128
Table 5: Production, trade and consumption of wood-based
panels, pulp and paper, 2008 ...................... 137
Table 6: Forestry sector's contribution to employment and
gross domestic product, 2006 ...................... 147
References .................................................... 157
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