Initiated by WP member Dr. Kathleen A. McGinley together with Prof. Fred Cubbage; in the MDPI Journal Forests, https://www.mdpi.com/journal/forests/special_issues/Criteria_Indicators.

IUFRO WP members have contributed to the following papers:

Lier, M.; Khl, M.; Korhonen, K.T.; Linser, S.; Prins, K.; Talarczyk, A. The New EU Forest Strategy for 2030: A New Understanding of Sustainable Forest Management?  Forests  2022, 13, 245. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13020245

Linser, S.; Wolfslehner, B. National Implementation of the Forest Europe Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management.  Forests  2022, 13, 191. https://doi.org/10.3390/f13020191

Riitters, K.; Robertson, G. The United States Implementation of the Montral Process Indicator of Forest Fragmentation.  Forests  2021, 12, 727. https://doi.org/10.3390/f12060727

Experts from the IUFRO WP 9.01.05 on research and development of indicators for SFM have jointly elaborated several publications on various C&I processes and related monitoring, reporting and assessment activities:

Developing a set of indicators to identify, monitor, and track impacts and change in forests of the United States. DOI: 10.1007/s10584-021-02993-6

Legal, Institutional, and Economic Indicators of Forest Conservation and Sustainable Management in the United States: Analyzing Criterion 7 of the Montréal Process Criteria and Indicators Framework. Available at: https://www.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/pubs/61113

The Contribution of Sustainable Development Goals and Forest-Related Indicators to National Bioeconomy Progress Monitoring. DOI:10.3390/su12072898

Criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management: lessons learned in the Southern Cone DOI: 10.1505/146554819827293196

Indikatoren für nachhaltige Waldbewirtschaftung 2020/ Austrian Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management 2020.DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.32255.02728

Japan MP C&I country report - Japanese and English. Available at: https://www.montrealprocess.org/Resources/Country_Reports/index.shtml

25 Years of Criteria and Indicators for SFM: Why some intergovernmental C&I Processes flourished while others faded
http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/9/9/515

25 Years of Criteria and Indicators for SFM: How intergovernmental C&I Processes have made a difference
http://www.mdpi.com/1999-4907/9/9/578

IUFRO Spotlight #62: https://www.iufro.org/publications/iufro-spotlights/article/2018/11/14/iufro-spotlight-62-how-and-why-criteria-and-indicators-have-changed-forest-management-since-the-r/

Linser, Stefanie & Wolfslehner, Bernhard & Asmar, Fady & R. J. Bridge, Simon & Robertson, Guy & Gritten, David & Johnson, Steven & Guadalupe, Vicente & Jafari, Mostafa & Laclau, Pablo. (2018). 25 Years of Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management: Why Some Intergovernmental C&I Processes Flourished While Others Faded. Forests. 9. 23. 10.3390/f9090515. https://doi.org/10.3390/f9090515

The use of criteria and indicators (C&I) for data collection, monitoring, assessing and reporting on sustainable forest management (SFM) has been growing since the Earth Summit in 1992, supported by eleven intergovernmental, regional and international forest-related C&I processes. The initial effort led to varying levels of implementation across countries. Several processes never went much beyond the adoption of a first set of C&I while others have made substantial progress. In recent years, interest in C&I for SFM has again increased. In light of the Sustainable Development Goals and emerging global challenges the contribution of C&I to monitor, assess and report on forest conditions and trends is increasingly important. We compare and analyse the structure, activities and progress of the intergovernmental C&I processes. The work is based on document analysis and questionnaires sent to the secretariats of the processes and C&I experts. We found many similarities but also major differences in the structure and content of the C&I sets. The results provide a context for discussing and understanding why some of the C&I processes are successful in their work while others have stalled. Finally, we propose the required ingredients for success for the future activities of the forest-related intergovernmental C&I processes.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327230923_25_Years_of_Criteria_and_Indicators_for_Sustainable_Forest_Management_Why_Some_Intergovernmental_CI_Processes_Flourished_While_Others_Faded

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