Description: World Forests, Markets and Policies: Towards a Balance.- Global Prospects of Substituting Oil by Biomass.- Global Freshwater Resources.- Forest Set-Asides and Carbon Sequestration.- Socioeconomic and Institutional Perspectives of Agroforestry.- Timber Plantations.Timber Supply and Forest Conservation.- Internationalization of Forest Industries.- Forests and Water.- The United States Initiative on Joint Implementation: Forest Sector Projects.- Forests as a Renewable Energy Source in Europe: Prospects and Policies.- Valuing the Multiple Functions of Forests.- World Forests and the G8 Economic Powers: from Imperialism to the Action Programmeon Forests.- G8 Action Programme on Forests: Mere Rhetoric?.- World Trade Flows of Forest Products.- Economic Crises, Small Farmers and Forest Cover in Cameroon and Indonesia.- Forest Cover and Agricultural Technology.- Forest-Based Development in Brazil, Chile and Mexico.- Management of Secondary Forests in Colonist Swidden Agriculture in Peru, Brazil andNicaragua.- Municipal Governments and Forest Management in Bolivia and Nicaragua.- Forest Investments in Latin America and the Caribbean.- Forest Policies in Malawi, Mozambique,Tanzania and Zimbabwe.- Forest Resource Policy in Cte d'lvoire, Cameroon and Gabon.- The Evolution of Forest Regimes in India and China.- Institutions in Forest Management: Special Reference to China.- Forestry in New Zealand: the Opposite of Multiple Use?.- Forest Certification on Private Forests in the United States: Challenges and Opportunities..- Biodiversity Conservation and Forest Products in the United States Pacific Northwest.- Sustaining Outdoor Recreation and Forests in the United States.- Urban Forestry in Europe.- Changes in Wood Resources in Europe with Emphasis on Germany.- Forest Resources forEmployment and Regional Development.- Globalisation and the Forest Sector in the Russian Far East.- Reforms in Support of Sustainable Forestry in the Russian Federation.- List of Contributors.- Ch. 14 Figure 10: Japan imports of forest products from major trading partners.- Ch. 14 Figure 12: Finland exports of forest products to major trading partners.- Ch. 28 Figure 2: Counties with different amounts of forest cover, 2000 (USA).- Ch. 28 Figure 3: Counties with both heavy recreation demand and forest cover, 2000 (USA).- Ch. 28 Figure 4: Counties with both heavy future recreation demand and forest cover, 2020 (USA).- V Map 1:Total forest area per capita (ha, natural log scale) in 166 countriesand 31 countries having the largest total forest area (million ha), 1995.- V Map 2:Total forest area per capita (ha) and total forest area (million ha) in 28 countriesof Latin America in 1995.- V Map 3:Total forest area per thousand capita (ha) and total forest area (million ha)in 49 countries of Africa in 1995.- V Map 4:Total forest area per thousand capita (ha) and total forest area (million ha)in 50 countries of Asia-Oceania in 1995.- V Map 5:Total forest area per capita (ha) in 50 U.S. states and 12 Canadian provinces and total forest area in 62 states/provinces (million ha).

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