The Forests Handbook, Volume 1 || Synthesis and Conclusions

✍ Scribed by Evans, Julian

• Publisher: Blackwell Science Ltd
• Year: 2001
• Weight: 47 KB
• Category: Article
• ISBN: 0632048212
• DOI: 10.1002/9780470757062.oth1

✦ Synopsis

THE RECORD OF HISTORY

1 Knowing what has happened to forests in the past and why (1:1, 2:1, 2:3 and 2:14) teaches crucial lessons, one of which is that a forest that is used, and the benefits of which are enjoyed, is a forest that survives (2:14). 2 The record of history is particularly important in understanding the evolution of policy towards forests and their management, and the way it has developed (2:2, 2:11 and 2:16). A fundamental underpinning of informed SFM is to know why things are done, as well as how.

3 SFM needs a policy framework -administrative, environmental, production, social -to function successfully (1:14, 2:1-2, 2:11 and 2:16). SFM won't just happen. 4 Recent history shows rapid migration to urban areas, particularly in developing countries, and that worldwide the majority of people will soon live in massive conurbations. While this is only touched on indirectly (1:13 and 2:12) the globalization of trade and fair sharing of resources increases the SFM imperative since most people will have no direct control and often very little say in what happens to forests.