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Managing tropical forests for the future
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Managing tropical forests for the future
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Unless timber can be harvested in a sustainable manner tropical forests, and their associated flora and fauna, will not survive. The conservation of the tropical forest has become an international issue, and its sustainable utilization is high on the political agenda. It is the harvesting of timber that gives governments the principal economic justification for keeping forest as forest, though whether this activity is truly sustainable and environmentally acceptable is widely debated. The forests are rapidly becoming exhausted, and management practices must change. In No timber without trees: sustainability in the tropical forest, Duncan Poore, a former Director of the Common wealth Forestry Institute of Oxford, together with four co-authors, reviews the extent to which natural forests are already being sustainably managed for timber production. Timber management is placed in the wider context of tropical forest conservation, and the authors outline a strategy for further action. No timber without trees: sustainability in the tropical forest by Duncan Poore, Peter Burgess John Palmer, Simon Rietbergen and Timothy Synnot, a study for the International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO) 252 pp, 1989, price UK9.95 ISBN 1 85383 050 X Earthscan Publications Ltd 3 Endsleigh Street London WClH 0DD, UK Unless timber can be harvested in a sustainable manner tropical forests, and their associated flora and fauna, will not survive. The conservation of the tropical forest has become an international issue, and its sustainable utilization is high on... |
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2014-10-08T13:40:56Z
2014-10-08T13:40:56Z 1991 |
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News Item
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CTA. 1991. Managing tropical forests for the future. Spore 31. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/45458 |
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en
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Spore, Spore 31
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CTA
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Spore
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