No Timber Without Trees

Preface
Acknowledgements
I. The Sustainable Management of Natural Forest: the Issues Duncan Poore
Some Definitions
Natural Forest; Sustainable Timber Production; Sustainable Production per Unit Area and
Sustainable Supply; Management and its Intensity
The Context
The Trade and its Future Sources of Timber; the National Economic Context of Forest Management;
Sustainability and the Environmental Context; The Social Context
The Sustainable Development and Conservation of Tropical Forest Lands
What Does it Mean?; The Balance of Use; Conservation: the Moving Target; What is the Scope
of Tropical Forest Conservation?; What is the Starting-point?; The Elements of the Ideal; Economic and Social Considerations; Planning Considerations; International Dovetailing
Definition of Issues in the ITTO Study
Queensland, Australia: an Approach to Successful Sustainable Management
Duncan Poore
The Rain Forests
Distribution and Character; Policy; Area of the Forests and Status
Forest Management
Objectives; Timber Production; Silvicultural System; Calculation of the Annual Allowable Cut
Rainforest Logging
Volume of Timber; The Planning of Logging; Tree Marking; Environmental Guidelines; Effects
of Logging; Financial Considerations
Research
Conclusion
3. Africa Simon Rietbergen
Present State of Natural Forest Management and Exploitation
How much Forest is being Managed at Present?; What is Happening to the Tropical Moist Forest?;
Timber Exploitation and Processing
Forest Exploitation and Management: the Wider Context
Forest and Land-use Policy; Forest Legislation and Reservation; The Control of Logging; Socioeconomic and Financial Policy; Economic Circumstances Conditioning Forest Management; Information Needed for Forest Management
Conclusions
4. South America and the Caribbean
Timothy Synnott
Forest Land and its Control
Trinidad and Tobago; Brazil; Bolivia; Peru; Ecuador; Honduras
Forest Laws and Policy
Trinidad; Brazil; Bolivia; Peru; Ecuador; Yonduras
Forest Management and Silviculture
Trinidad; Brazil; Bolivia; Peru; Ecuador; Honduras
Research
Logging
Industries
Training
Appendix: Abbreviations
5. Asia P.F. Burgess
Forest Policy
The Forests and Forest Protection; Control of the Rate of Forest Utilization
The forests
Classification by Area; Selection, Demarcation and Protection; National Forest Inventory
Forest Operations and Management
Concession Agreements; Silvicultural Systems; Pre-felling Inventories; Marking for Fellings; Control
of Exploitation Damage and Quality of Residuals; Yarding: Methods and Slope Limits; Transport Systems, Road Design and Maintenance; Post-felling Inventories; Planting Voids and Enrichment Planting;
Security of Worked Coupes; Recruitment of the Regeneration Stock; Monitoring of the Developing Stand
Extent of Sustainable Management in the Region
Adequacy and Independence of Staff; Funding of Forestry Departments; Decentralization of Forest Departments: State Versus Federal Forests; Research and Training; Forestry Training
Prospects for Sustained-yield Management within the Region
Sustainable Supply; The Main Factors Hindering or Preventing Sustained-yield Management; Circumstances where Sustained-yield Management is Succeeding
6. Management of Natural Forest for Sustainable Timber Production: A Commentary John Palmer
Diagnosis with Examples of Problems
Demography; Social factors; Land Tenure; Cultural Factors; Technological Factors; Economic Factors;
Institutional Factors; Educational Factors; Research Information
Prescriptions for Improvement
Education and Recruitment; Policy Development; Institutional Development; Forestry Research; Gaps
in Information for Management of TMF; Critical Knowledge for Sustainable Management (Decision Chart)
Conclusion
7. Conclusions Duncan Poore
The Iindings of the study
Introduction; How much Forest is under Management for Sustainable Timber Production at an Operational scale?; Overall Picture
The Conditions for Sustainable Production
Long-term Security of Operation; Operational Control; A Suitable Financial Environment; Adequate Information; Conditions of Success
General Conclusions
8. Recommended Action Duncan Poore
The Elements of a Strategy for ITTO:
Recommended Actions
Promotion; Diagnosis Examples; Facilitation
9. Recent Developments Duncan Poore
ITTO: Substantial Progress
TFAP: Change of Gear
Actions by Producer Governments
Action by the Timber Trade
Consumer Campaigns
10. Postscript: an Uncertain Future
Duncan Poore
Additional Reading
Index