Scoping Dialogue on Intensively Managed Planted Forests

TFD convened twenty-two international leaders of the forest products industry, NGOs, governments, and forest owners for a scoping meeting to discuss the environmental, social, and economic factors critical to the management of intensively managed planted forests (plantations).

Meeting Materials

Co-Chairs' Summary

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Dialogue Agenda

Participant List

Related Materials

America's Timber Investmenst. 31 January 2005.

Bull GQ, M Bazett, O Schwab, S Nilsson, A White and S Maginnis. In press. Industrial forest plantation subsidies: Impacts and implications. Forest Policy and Economics.

Colchester M and R Lumuru. 2005.The Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil: Analysis, Prospects and Progress.

Cossalter C and Pye-Smith. 2003. Fast-Wood Forestry: Myths and Realities. Center for International Forestry Research.

Cubbage F, P MacDonagh, M Noemi Baez, J Siry, J Sawinski Junior, A Ferreira, V Hoeflich, G Ferreira, V Morales Olmos, R Rubilar, J Alvarez and P Donoso. 2005. Timber Investment Returns for Plantations and Native Forests in the Americas.

Matte, Eliodoro. 2005. Forest plantations and their contribution toward the planet's sustainability. Empresas CMPC.

The UNFF Intersessional Experts Meeting Report. The role of planted forests in sustainable forest management.

UNFF Intersessional Intersessional Experts Meeting 24-30 March 2003.

Presentations

Kanowski, Peter. Intensivley managed planted forests: starting points for dialogue

Carle, Jim. FAO initiatives in planted forests.

Lindhe, Anders. Presentation supplement - The Forest Stewardship Council's plantations review.

Elliot, Chris. Presentation supplement - WWF International basic principles on IMPF.

Lovera. Intensive forest management and (tree) plantations: views from the perspective of the Global Forest Coalition- GFC.

Colchester, Marcus. Forest Peoples, Plantations and Intensively Managed Forests.

Asher, George. Lake Taupo Forest Trust perspectives on IMPF.