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INTRODUCTION
This issue of ETFRN News on "Sustainable Development of Mountain Forests" presents an overview on the current status of upland forests and the ecological, socio-economic and technological implications of sustainable development of mountain forests, particularly in developing countries. The introduction gives an outline on the International Year of Mountains 2002 (IYM2002), conventions and partnerships for sustainable mountain forest development, as well as current policy trends and key issues. The articles presented in section I and II deal with structure, dynamics and management of mountain forests and non timber forest products (NTFPs). On the issues of policy and politics for conservation and development several case studies are presented (section III), as well as examples of existing multi- and bilateral partnerships for sustainable mountain forest development (section IV).
Sustainable development of mountain forests - whose claims, whose issues and whose benefits? (Habermann)
I STRUCTURE, DYNAMICS AND MANAGEMENT OF MOUNTAIN FORESTS
Restoring
Northern Thailand''s Highland Forests (Blakesley & Elliott)
Restoration of the native woody-species diversity,
using plantation species as foster trees, in the degraded highlands of Ethiopia
(Yirdaw & Luukkanen)
Marcottage de tiges rampantes et induction du drageonnage
: des techniques à conseiller en zones montagneuses? (Bellefontaine)
Snag decay, vegetation and tree regeneration in a
protection forest eight years after Picea abies die-back caused by Ips typographus
(Kupferschmid Albisetti & Schönenberger)
Long-term development of protection forests: Combining
models of forest dynamics with models of natural hazards (Wehrli et al.)
Forest Conversion, Soil Degradation and Sustainable
Development of Tropical Montane Cloud Forests in Guatemala (Alta Verapaz)
(Markussen & Gerold)
Water and element budget of a lower montane forest
in south Ecuador (Wilcke)
II NON TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS IN MOUNTAIN FORESTS
Land
use and sustainable livelihoods in the northern mountains of Vietnam: improving
market chains for upland products (Le Thi Phi et al.)
Commercial Himalayan non-timber forest products
(Smith-Olsen)
On the Sustainable Management of Non-Timber Forest
Products (NTFPs) in the High Mountains in Nepal (Bhandari & Kleinn)
No Tree –– no Bee, no Honey ––
no Money: Social and Ecological Impacts of Forest Use in the South Western Parts
of Ethiopia (Hartmann)
Preservation, Restoration and Utilization of Vietnam
Mountain Forests (Nguyen Duc To Luu et al.)
III POLICY AND POLITICS FOR CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN MOUNTAIN AREAS
Conservation
of Ethiopian sacred groves (Binggeli et al.)
Assessing Himalayan Biodiversity (Bajracharya)
Degradation of Juniper Forest in the Hindukush Himalayan
Region of District Chitral, Northern Pakistan (Aziz)
Sustainable management of mountain forests: An ecological
identification of biodiversity hotspots on Mount Cameroon, South-West Province,
Cameroon (Pouakouyou)
Changing the rules of the game: Forest management
in the mountain district of Ba Be, Vietnam (Zingerli)
Pine Forests in the Dominican Republic - a unique
resource between all fronts (Peter)
Ecological Democracy in the Sierra Norte of Oaxaca,
Mexico (Mitchell)
Sustainable development of Mountain Forests in an
Industrialized Country: New Challenges for Switzerland (Zimmermann)
Arguments for market-driven sustainable mountain
forest development in developing countries: focus on Ethiopia (Embaye)
Poverty, Equity and Resource Sustainability: Insights
from Community-Based Forest Management in the Mid Hills of Nepal (Adhikari)
Making Self Help Groups A Platform For Forest Protection:
A Case Study From India (Om Prakash Tripathy)
IV PARTNERSHIP FOR SUSTAINABLE MOUNTAIN FOREST DEVELOPMENT
Sharing
of Knowledge and Capacity on Mountain Forestry: International Masters Programme
M F in Austria (Habermann)
Research for sustainable development of the conifer
forests of Bhutan - Experiences with the CORET partnership between the Institute
of Forest Ecology and a research center in Bhutan (Gratzer & Namgyel)
ORECH-LES: Biodiversity and sustainable management
of Kyrgystan's walnut-fruit forests: Development of new silvicultural approaches
(Sorg et al.)
Knowledge and strategies of local people in forest
management. A research project contributing to the development of participatory
approaches to forest management in the walnut-fruit forests in Kyrgyzstan
(Schmidt)