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Achievements in 2002-2006

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a) The Book: Forests in the Global Balance – Changing Paradigms, 2005

b) Summaries of the Book chapters as Capacity Building Material, 2006

c) Policy Brief in 3 languages, 2005

  • Policy Brief: Forests for the New Millennium – making forests work for people and nature
  • Énoncé de politique: Des Forêts pour le Noveau Millénaire – des forêts à gérer dans l’intérêt des gens et la nature
  • Resumen de políticas: Bosques para el Nuevo Milenio – Bosques que beneficien a la gente y sustenten la naturaleza

d) CDs in English and Spanish, 2006

  • A CD including the Book, summary presentations of each chapter and the Policy Brief, all in English, can be ordered from gerardo.mery(at)metla.fi.
  • Colección de publicaciones de WFSE en español: A CD including the Book (in English), the selected, updated  articles of the Book in Spanish, the summary presentations as well as the Policy Brief also in Spanish, can be ordered from gerardo.mery(at)metla.fi.

e) Participation in international meetings

WFSE participated actively in international meetings and processes, e.g. in the Third Session of United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF 3) May 2003 in Geneva Switzerland; the Fifth Session of United Nations Forum on Forests (UNFF 5) May 2005 in New York USA; the XII World Forestry Congress in Quebec Canada September 2003 and XXII IUFRO World Congress in Brisbane Australia  August 2005 and the 2nd Latin American IUFRO Congress October 2006 in La Serena Chile.

f) Executive Summary of the pre-IUFRO-WFSE publications of 1999-2001, 2003

The generous financial support from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland is highly appreciated. Further funding for the project activities, both in cash and kind, was provided by the partners. 

The Book: Forests in the Global Balance – Changing Paradigms

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After the identification of the critical global issues specified in 2003 as forest governance, environmental services, plantation forests and the contribution of forestry to livelihoods, recognized scientists and research groups were jointly identified to carry out the respective critical reviews.
The subject issues and the changing paradigms were thoroughly discussed and debated in workshops. The first workshop for the editors and the convening lead authors of the book convened in Helsinki, February 2–4, 2004 (see Photo Album). The second workshop for the editors and convening lead authors met in Tokyo, Japan on May 26–27, 2004. The workshop continued the joint critical discussion and analysis of the key issues in the interface between forests, society and the environment, examined the progress of each working group and scrutinised the relevant technical issues in the publication. The meeting was generously sponsored by UNU. 
At the end more than 150 scientists from all continents provided their input to this joint effort. The book was released at the XXII IUFRO World Congress in Brisbane, Australia, in August, 2005. The book contributes to international scientific discussion and reflects on how changing paradigms are resonating in global arenas. Also several cross-cutting issues are scrutinized as to their role in enhancing sustainable forest management. The state and repercussions of the on-going processes on different continents are also addressed in the section providing regional analyses.

Gerardo Mery, René Alfaro, Markku Kanninen, Max Lobovikov (eds.). 2005.
Forests in the Global Balance – Changing Paradigms.
IUFRO World Series Volume 17. Helsinki. 318 p.
ISBN 3-901347-55-0 ISSN 1016-3263

The book is available from:
IUFRO Secretariat, Hauptstrasse 7, A-1140 Vienna, Austria;
Tel: +43-1-877-01-51-0; Fax: +43-1-877-01-51-55; e-mail: office(at)iufro.org
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Price: € 20.-- plus mailing costs

 

Articles of the book

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PART I Forest in the Changing World

PART II Global Forum

PART III Cross Cutting Issues in Sustainable Forest Management

PART IV Regional Forum

Selección de artículos del libro de WFSE en español, 2006

These articles of the book were updated for the 2nd Latin American IUFRO Congress 23-27 October 2006 in La Serena, Chile.

Summaries of the Book chapters as Capacity Building Material

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The summaries on key issues of each chapter in Forests in the Global Balance – Changing Paradigms were produced in close collaboration with the authors and are availabe as PDF documents (see below). The presentations can be used in training and capacity development or to highlight the issues in the Book.

The summaries are available here (by chapters) as PDF documents:

1   Changing paradigms in forestry: repercussions for people and nature
2   Responding to the Increasing Social and Economic Demands on Forests
3   Reinventing Forestry for the 21st Century
4   Changes in the Governance of Forest Resources
5   Forest-Based Livelihoods and Poverty Reduction: Paths from Local to Global Development
6   An Integrated Approach to Forest Ecosystem Services
7   Diversifying Functions of Planted Forests
8   Forest Assessment for Changing Information Needs
9   The History and Future of Agroforestry Research and Development: Policy Impacts and Needs
10 Capacity Development for Sustainable Forest Management
11 Traditional Knowledge and Human Well-Being in the 21st Century
12 From Poverty to Prosperity: Harnessing the Wealth of Africa’s Forests
13 Paradigm Shifts in Asian Forestry
14 Changes in the Forest Sector in Europe and Russia
15 Changing Paradigms in the Forestry Sector of Latin America
16 Forests in North America: Responding to Social, Economic and Ecological Pressures
17 Oceania – Islands of Contrasts


Presentaciones resumidas en español

Las Presentaciones Resumidas exponen de manera concisa e ilustrativa los temas principales y las conclusiones más relevantes alcanzadas en las investigaciones que se incluyen en el libro anteriormente mencionado. Las Presentaciones Resumidas que se exponen a continuación se crearon en estrecha colaboración con los los autores respectivos de cada artículo.

1   Cambios de paradigmas en el sector forestal: repercusiones para la gente y la naturaleza
2   Respondiendo a las crecientes demandas sociales y económicas sobre los bosques
3   Reinventando la actividad forestal para el Siglo XXI
4   Cambios en la gobernabilidad de los recursos forestales
5   Formas de vidas sustentadas por los bosques y reducción de la pobreza: desde el desarrollo local hacia el global
6   Enfoque Integrado de los servicios ecosistémicos de los bosques
7   Las funciones diversificadas de los bosques plantados
8   Evaluación de los recursos forestales para las necesidades cambiantes de información
9   La Historia y el futuro de la investigación y desarrollo agroforestal: impactos de políticas y necesidades
10 Desarrollo de capacidades para el manejo forestal sostenible
11 Conocimientos tradicionales y el bienestar humano en el Siglo XXI
12 De la pobreza a la prosperidad: aprovechando la riqueza de los bosques africanos
13 Paradigmas cambiantes en las actividades forestales en Asia
14 Cambios en el sector forestal en Europa y Rusia
15 Cambios en los paradigmas del sector forestal de América Latina
16 Los bosques en Norteamérica: respondiendo a las presiones sociales, económicas y ecológicas
17 Oceanía – islas de contrastes

Policy Brief : Forests in the New Millennium – Making Forests Work for People and Nature

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Gerardo Mery, René Alfaro, Markku Kanninen, Max Lobovikov, Heidi Vanhanen and Charlie Pye-Smith (eds.). 2005.

The Policy Brief was built on the process of preparing the book Forests in the Global Balance – Changing Paradigms.

A workshop on composing the Policy Brief of Forests in the Global Balance was organized  jointly by IUFRO-WFSE and Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, on January 12-16, 2005. The workshop — with more than 30  authors, researchers and policy experts  — was an innovative forum to integrate the conclusions of experts in different fields into a well-developed and balanced view on the forests, society and environment interface.

The Policy Brief was published in May 2005 by Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland and IUFRO. The Policy Brief is aimed at providing a solid scientific basis for policy development and formulation  and to facilitate decision-making and implementation through a deep understanding of current and future processes in the interrelations between forests, society and the environment.

The Policy Brief is available in English, Spanish and French (as pdf files):

Forests for the New Millennium – Making Forests work for People and Nature
 Bosques para el Nuevo Mileno – Bosques que beneficien a la gente y sustenten la
naturalza
Des Fôrets pour le Nouveau Millénaire – des fôrets à gérer dans l'intérêt des gens et la nature.

To support the international processes in attaining their objectives the Policy Brief was launched and distributed to the participants of the United Nations Forum on Forests on May 25, 2005 in New York.

Executive Summary of the pre-IUFRO publications of 1999-2001

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Philip Wardle (chief editor), Libor Jansky, Gerardo Mery, Matti Palo, Jussi Uusivuori and Heidi Vanhanen (co-editors). 2003.


World Forests, Society and Environment, as a Metla, EFI, UNU/IAS partnership project 1996 – 2001 was an ambitious initiative that brought together the research of 149 scientists from four continents. This Executive Summary presents a brief overview of the issues in the three publications of the previous phase of WFSE up to 2001. The Executive Summary was launched at a side event in the XII World Forestry Congress, Quebec, Canada, in September 2003.

The Executive Summary is available as PDF document:
http://www.unu.edu/env/forests/WFSEexecutive-summary.pdf

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