| European
Tropical Forest Research Network |
By Jelle Maas
Forest World at www.forestworld.com is an online marketplace for certified forest products. It also offers information on certification & sustainability, forest industry and woods of the world.
www.prototypecarbonfund.org/ is the site for the World Bank's Prototype Carbon Fund, a new product that aims to demonstrate how project-based emissions transactions can mitigate climate change. The site is an integral part of the PCF's aim to gather, analyse, and disseminate knowledge gained from a "learn-by-doing" approach.
Resources for the Future (www.rff.org)
is a nonprofit and nonpartisan think tank based in Washington DC conducting
independent research on environmental and natural resource issues. Their site
includes the following articles on biodiversity prospecting:
Capitalising on Biodiversity - about Brazil's experiences in biodiversity
prospecting http://forests.org/archive/brazil/brcbiodb.htm
Biodiversity Prospecting: Shopping the Wilds Is Not the Key to Conservation
by R. David Simpson www.rff.org/resources_articles/files/biodprospect.htm.
The Programme for Forests (PROFOR) of UNDP provides several (PDF) publications on financing sustainable forest management: www.undp.org/seed/forest/pages/publications/financing_SFM.html
The Biodiversity Economics Library http://biodiversityeconomics.org/index.htm by IUCN business and biodiversity initiative: http://iucn.org/themes/business/index.htm
The IIED Forestry and Land Use Programme has a project on Instruments for Sustainable Private Sector Forestry which has produced several reports that can be downloaded from their publications webpage. www.iied.org
The African Forest Economics Newsletter of the FAO is available at www.fao.org/forestry/fon/fons/financing/afe_2_en.htm. A FAO synthesis paper summarising the information presented in 26 country reports compares and contrasts the many different ways in which forest revenue systems are designed and implemented in different African countries and presents estimates of the total financial flows between government and the forestry sector www.fao.org/DOCREP/003/X6830E/X6830E00.HTM.
Ecological Economics www.elsevier.nl/locate/jnlnr/05100 published by Elsevier, is the Transdisciplinary Journal of the International Society for Ecological Economics www.ecologicaleconomics.org/
ForVal online (short for Forest Valuation) is an online forestry investment calculator developed by Steven Bullard of the Mississippi State University. www.cfr.msstate.edu/forval/
The Journal of Forest Economics is a scientific journal published by the Swedish Agricultural University in Uppsala. Index: www.sekon.slu.se/~oca/eng/publ/jgeneral.htm
The African Centre for Technology Studies, an international inter-governmental policy research and training organization in Nairobi, Kenya, focusses on implementation of Agenda 21 and conventions on biological diversity; climate change; and desertification. www.acts.or.ke/
Documents for the Second Substantive Session of the United
Nations Forum on Forests ( San Jose, Costa Rica, 4-15 March 2002) are available
at: www.un.org/esa/sustdev/unff2001_omdoc.htm.