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34th Session Joint FAO/UNECE Working Party on Forest Statistics, Economics and Management

34th Session Joint FAO/UNECE Working Party on Forest Statistics, Economics and Management

27 - 29 March 2012
Salle V Geneva Switzerland

Contact Secretariat for more information.  The Working Party is to provide guidance and exchange views on issues of forest statistics and other elements of the ECE/FAO Joint Work Programme.  Delegates represent ECE/FAO member states as well as NGOs.

Kindly note that the provisional agenda has been modified to move item 5c (guidance of Outlook Work Area) from Wednesday afternoon to Thursday morning while items 5d-e (Guidance of Social/Cultural and Policy/Cross-Sectoral Work Areas) have been moved from Thursday morning to Wednesday afternoon.  This is in order to bring the Outlook item closer to the Friday meeting of the Team of Specialists.

  • Meeting Documents
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  • Pictures from session

Item

Document Title

ENG

FRE

RUS

9 Report PDF PDF PDF

1

Provisional Agenda

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2 Outcome of the Timber Committee and the European Forestry Commission Joint Session and Implications for the Working Party DOC    
3 Information on the Strategic Review      
4 Strategic Review 2013: Results of Team of Specialists Internal Evaluations (prepared by Team  leader on basis of replies from Team members)      
  4.1 Team of Specialists on Sustainable Forest Products DOC    
  4.2 Team of Specialists on Monitoring Sustainable Forest Management DOCX    
  4.3 Team of Specialists on Outlook Studies DOC    
  4.4 Joint Expert Network to Implement Sustainable Forest Management      
  4.5 Team of Specialists on Forest Fires (revised March 20) PDF    
  4.6 Team of Specialists on  Forest Policy in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia1

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  4.7 Forest Communicators Network DOC    
5a Guidance of Work Area 1 - Markets and Statistics      
  5a.1 Review and Plans: Markets DOC    
  5a.2 Review and Plans: Statistics DOC    
  5a.3 Review and Plans: Wood Energy DOC    
    Serbia TCP Conclusions (draft) PDF    
  5a.4 Annual Report of Team of Specialists on Sustainable Forest Products      
5b Guidance of Work Area 2 - Forest Resources Assessment      
  5b.1 Review and Plans: Forest Resources Assessment (document updated March 14) DOC    
    Annex 1 - FAO Global FRA Developments (document updated March 15) DOC    
  5b.2 Annual Report of Team of Specialists on Monitoring Sustainable Forest Management DOC    
5c Guidance of Work Area 3 - Forest Sector Outlook Studies      
  5c.1 Review and Plans: Forest Sector Outlook Studies DOC    
  5c.2 Annual Report of Team of Specialists on Outlook Studies DOC    
5d Guidance of Work Area 4 - Social and Cultural      
  5d.1 Review and Plans: Social and Cultural DOC    
  5d.2 Annual Report of Joint Expert Network to Implement Sustainable Forest Management DOC    
5e Guidance of Work Area 5 - Policy and Cross-Sectoral      
  5e.1 Review and Plans: Policy and Cross-Sectoral DOC    
  5e.2 Annual Report of Team of Specialists on Forest Fires PDF    
  5e.3 Annual Report of Team of Specialists on Forest Policy in Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Central Asia PDF    
  5e.4 Annual Report of Forest Communicators Network DOC    
6 Recent Trends in Forest Economics      
  6.1 Draft Outline for paper on Forests and Economic Development PDF    
  6.2 Charles McKetta, speaker on Forest Economics  - CV PDF    
7 Other Business      
8 Election of Officers      

1. No summary of the evaluations was available.

Item Title By File Audio (E/R)
2 Outcome of the Timber Committee and the European Forestry Commission Joint Session and Implications for the Working Party Paola Deda, Chief, Forestry and Timber Section PDF  
3 Strategic Review Dominique Reeb, Deputy Chief, Forestry and Timber Section PDF  
4 - Team of Specialists' Self-Evaluation for the Strategic Review
  Sustainable Forest Products Branko Glavonjic, University of Belgrade, Serbia PDF  
  Monitoring Sustainable Forest Management Kari Korhonen, METLA, Finland PDF  
  Outlook Studies Jeff Prestemon, US Forest Service, United States PDF  
  Joint Expert Network Christian Salvignol, Centre Forestier de la region PACA France PDF  
  Forest Fire Sergiy Zibtsev, University of Life and Environmental Science, Ukraine PDF  
  Forest Policy in EECCA Anatoly Petrov, All-Russian Institute of Continuous Education and Training in Forestry, Russian Federation PDF  
  Forest Communicators Network Florian Kraxner, IIASA PDF  
5 - Guidance of Work Areas
  Work Area 1 - Markets Matthew Fonseca, Forestry and Timber Section PDF  
  Work Area 1 - Statistics Alex McCusker, Forestry and Timber Section PDF  
  Work Area 1 - Wood Energy David Ellul, Forestry and Timber Section PDF  
  Annual Report of ToS on Sustainable Forest Products Branko Glavonjic PDF  
  Work Area 2 - Forest Resources Roman Michalak, Forestry and Timber Section PDF  
  Work Area 3 - Forest Sector Outlook Studies Overview David Ellul PDF MP3
  Work Area 3 - EFSOS Mart-Jan Schelhaas, Alterra, Netherlands PDF MP3
  Work Area 3 - North American Outlook Study Jeff Prestemon PDF MP3
  Work Area 4 - Social and Cultural Arnaud Brizay, Forestry and Timber Section PDF  
  Work Area 5 - Policy and Cross-Sectoral Paola Deda PDF  
  Work Area 5 - Annual Report of the ToS Florian Kraxner PDF  
6 Local Impact Analyses in the Context
of US Forest Economics Evolution
Charles McKetta, Forest Econ Inc., United States PDF MP3
  Forest and Economy Kit Prins, Consultant, Geneva PDF MP3

The audio file is in the language of the speaker (usually English) on the left channel and the interpretation into Russian on the right channel.

Additional Information

Photos courtesy A. McCusker and A. Zesiger.

Photos courtesy A. McCusker and A. Zesiger.