1 / 14

Implementing Sustainable Forest Management Criteria and Indicators

Implementing Sustainable Forest Management Criteria and Indicators. Fred Cubbage Professor & Head NC State University. Presented at: Achieving Sustainable Forest Management Class Raleigh, NC 09 September 2002. Scarcity and Sustainability. The Current Definition Driving Policy

Mercy
Download Presentation

Implementing Sustainable Forest Management Criteria and Indicators

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Implementing Sustainable Forest Management Criteria and Indicators Fred Cubbage Professor & Head NC State University Presented at: Achieving Sustainable Forest Management Class Raleigh, NC 09 September 2002

  2. Scarcity and Sustainability • The Current Definition Driving Policy • “meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.” • Brundtland Commission Report, World Conference on Environment and Development, 1987

  3. Setting the Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Agenda • UNCED - 1992 • Montreal Process - 1993 • Santiago Declaration - 1995 • 7 criteria and 67 indicators • Helsinki Process in Europe • International Tropical Timber Organization • Forest Stewardship Council/Certification • AF&PA Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI)

  4. Montreal Criteria and Indicators • Biological diversity • Productive capacity of forest ecosystems • Forest ecosystem health and vitality • Soil and water resources • Global carbon cycles • Socio-economic benefits • Legal and institutional framework

  5. Criteria and Indicators (C&I) • Criteria are large scale reflection of public values • Indicators as means for measuring forest conditions and tracking subsequent changes • Tools to assess forest conditions and sustainability • Not performance standards for certifying management

  6. C&I Status • 12 temperate countries in Montreal Process • First Approximation Report in 1997 • Plan to test & gather data for C&I • Seven criteria adopted by U.S. • Forest Service lead • state foresters endorsed • Refinement of indicators evolving

  7. Santiago Declaration Criteria • 1: Conservation of biological diversity • ecosystem diversity; indicators #1-5 • species diversity #6-7 • genetic diversity #8-9 • 2: Maintenance of productive capacity of ecosystems • indicators #10-14

  8. More Criteria and Indicators • 3: Maintenance of forest ecosystem health and vitality • indicators #15-17 • 4: Conservation and maintenance of soil and water resources • #18-25 • 5: Maintenance of forest contribution to global carbon cycles • #26-28

  9. More C&I • 6: Maintenance and enhancement of long-term multiple socioeconomic benefits to meet the needs of societies • production and consumption #29-34 • recreation and tourism #35-37 • investment in the forest sector #38-41 • cultural, social, and spiritual needs and values #42-43 • employment and community needs #44-47

  10. More C&I • 7: Legal, institutional, and economic framework for forest conservation and sustainable management • legal framework supports conservation and sustainable management of forests #48-51 • institutional framework to support conservation & sustainable management #53-57 • economic framework to support conservation & sustainable management #58-59

  11. More C&I: Criterion 7, Continued • Capacity to measure and monitor changes in conservation & sustainable management #60-62 • Capacity to conduct and apply research and development aimed at improving forest management and delivery of forest goods and services #63-67

  12. Implementing SFM C&I • International to national agenda • Not much regional to local knowledge • Even scientists largely unaware • Thus USDA FS, state foresters, others promote

  13. 2003 Sustainability Report • USDA FS preparing 2003 Sustainability Report • With Assistance of Roundtable of Sustainable Forests – multi-stakeholder discussion and work groups • Most reports currently underway

  14. Southern Forestry • Sustainable forest management developing • Widespread AF&PA SFI initiative • Developing FSC program • Ecosystem management/T&E species • Southern forest assessment debates • But modest C&I visibility • Integrated certification and C&I? • Parallel international agreements/ cooperation

More Related