These factors can make unsustainable practices more profitable than sustainable forest management.

This encourages unsustainable practices, hampers financing for sustainable forest management and contributes to deforestation.

While deforestation and unsustainable management practices can lead to increased water pollution, sustainable forest management in watersheds can help to protect supplies of freshwater.

The lack of mechanisms to compensate forest owners for environmental and social non market services encourages unsustainable practices, hampers financing for sustainable forest management and contributes to deforestation.

Forest applications include forest area estimation and mapping, forest monitoring, forest fire assessment and forest management.

Sustainable forest management

In order to reverse this trend, it will therefore be necessary to increase forest management and reafforestation and to control the most important factors contributing to forest loss (excessive tree felling, unsuitable planting practices and forest fires among others).

Financing sustainable forest management

Although decentralization has achieved contradictory outcomes, in many cases it has contributed to improved equity in access to forest resources, the distribution of economic benefits from these resources, and to sustainable forest management practices.

Promote genuine community based forest management that empowers forest peoples.

(n) Review and, as needed, improve forest related legislation, strengthen forest law enforcement and promote good governance at all levels in order to support sustainable forest management, to create an enabling environment for forest investment and to combat and eradicate illegal practices, in accordance with national legislation, in the forest and other related sectors

C. Greater recognition of sustainable forest management and forest products trade

Progress towards sustainable forest management

Disincentives for sustainable forest management.

Subprogramme 9 Sustainable forest management

(l) Strengthen mechanisms that enhance sharing among countries and the use of best practices in sustainable forest management, including through freeware based information and communications technology

(y) Enhance access by households, small scale forest owners, forest dependent local and indigenous communities, living in and outside forest areas, to forest resources and relevant markets in order to support livelihoods and income diversification from forest management, consistent with sustainable forest management.

International trade and sustainable forest management

Criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management

(b) Committee on Reforestation and Forest Management

(b) Committee on Reforestation and Forest Management

Disseminating instructive management practices

(b) Social impact assessment for sustainable forest management

(e) Forest law enforcement, governance and conflict management

C. Emerging and critical issues for sustainable forest management

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Reverse the loss of forest cover worldwide through sustainable forest management, including protection, restoration, afforestation and reforestation, and increase efforts to prevent forest degradation

On the other hand, illegal forest related activities continue to be a major threat to sustainable forest management.

Developing and implementing criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management.

Inadequate transfer of environmentally sound technologies for sustainable forest management.

(c) Articulating the concept of sustainable forest management more clearly

Achieving sustainable forest management is primarily a sovereign national responsibility.

Examples of policy activities include, inter alia, forest law enforcement, certification, market access, development of guidelines, ex post evaluation, studies on market conditions, status of tropical forest management, community forest management, tenure rights, further processing of tropical timber , trade of non timber forest products and ecosystem services.

Decentralization processes and the achievement of an appropriate balance between centralization and decentralization of forest related decision making and management are key to making progress toward sustainable forest management.

Between 1995 and 1997, AOAD carried out training on land management development, forest management, combating forest fires, alfa grass management, environmental protection, sand dune stabilization and geographical information systems (GIS) and remote sensing in range studies.

(a) Human resources management principles and practices

Reverse the decline in official development assistance for sustainable forest management and mobilize significantly increased, new and additional financial resources from all sources for the implementation of sustainable forest management.

(k) Identify and implement measures to enhance cooperation and cross sectoral policy and programme coordination among sectors affecting and affected by forest policies and management, with a view to integrating the forest sector into national decision making processes and promoting sustainable forest management, including by addressing the underlying causes of deforestation and forest degradation, and by promoting forest conservation

(f) Support the protection and use of traditional forest related knowledge and practices in sustainable forest management with the approval and involvement of the holders of such knowledge, and promote fair and equitable sharing of benefits from their utilization, in accordance with national legislation and relevant international agreements

Improved coordination of policies and the development of a harmonized framework for national commitments towards achieving sustainable forest management, including international goals and targets and strong national reporting mechanisms on implementing sustainable forest management will help establish a level playing field for the forest products sector and will greatly assist public and political recognition of steps on the road to sustainable forest management.

(b) Reverse the decline in official development assistance for sustainable forest management and mobilize significantly increased, new and additional financial resources from all sources for the implementation of sustainable forest management

There are a number of existing international arrangements that have succeeded in strengthening long term political commitment to sustainable forest management and led to significant improvements in national forest policies, legislative frameworks and standards in line with the principles of sustainable forest management.

(a) Renewing the commitment to make global progress towards sustainable forest management.

(r) Strengthen the contribution of science and research in advancing sustainable forest management by incorporating scientific expertise into forest policies and programmes