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No Thumbnail AvailableOther documentManagement and utilization of the tropical moist forest - from the FAO Committee on forest development in the tropics - extracts 1976This special issue of Unasylva has two main objectives. It brings to our readers an edited selection of some of the position papers of the important 4th Session of the FAO Committee on Forestry Development in the Tropics and, in doing, this, it emphasizes FAO's principal concern in the field of forestry: how to make the best and wisest use of man's least understood ecological formation, the moist tropical forest.
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Technical bookRegional code of practice for reduced-impact forest harvesting in tropical moist forests of West and Central Africa 2005
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This model Regional Code of Practice for Reduced-Impact Forest Harvesting is intended primarily to serve as a reference document for tropical African countries engaged in or aspiring to the sustainable management of their closed moist forests. It seeks to provide a range of standards, guidelines and rules that will help public- and private-sector foresters to adopt appropriate practices. -
Technical bookLiterature Synthesis on Logging Impacts in Moist Tropical Forests
GLOBAL FIBRE SUPPLY STUDY - Working Paper Series
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No results found.Compiling information on forest harvesting intensity is essential to the discussion of sustainable forest management. This paper presents a bibliographic synthesis of important literature on logging impacts and reduced impact logging in tropical forests. The emphasis is on statistics which contribute to the Global Fibre Supply Study such as logging intensities, cutting cycles and harvesting waste, residual stand development and site damage in non-coniferous tropical forests. This review was th en used to provide background information for the modelling work explained in Working Paper No. 5 in this series.
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