Böcker av Food and Agriculture Organisation

Presents the case for why we all must throw our weight behind a global restoration effort. Drawing on the latest scientific evidence, the report explains the crucial role played by ecosystems from forests and farmland to rivers and oceans, and charts the losses that result from our poor stewardship of the planet.

Criteria and indicators constitute an increasingly common policy tool to implement sustainable forest management (SFM) and to define clear priorities and targets. These guidelines provide specific concepts, definitions, tools and reference materials to guide the development process of national criteria and indicator sets for SFM.

Presents the forest resources and the forest sector of the Caucasus and Central Asia, including trends in, and pressures on the resource, to describe the policies and institutions for the forest sector in the region and to list the major challenges the sector faces, and the policy responses in place or planned.

Focusing primarily on the period from the collapse of the Soviet Union until the present day, this study identifies the key drivers of forest degradation and the potential for forest landscape restoration in the Caucasus and Central Asia.

The ECE Timber Committee and the FAO European Forestry Commission emerged from the International Timber Conference held in 1947 as the key elements of the United Nations tasked with working on matters related to the forest sector in Europe. This paper chronicles the history of the Committee and the Commission's work.