Prospects for improved management of natural forests in Latin America (English)

This note reviews the Latin American experience in forestry ecosystems, and reveals the technical feasibility of improved natural forest management, but also exposes the major constraints to its implementation. Namely, these constraints are weak baseline, and research information in the decision-making process; absence of profitability; contradictory policies that encourage legal high-grading, and forest destruction, rather than good forest management;...

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Kirmse,Robert;

Constantino,Luis F.;

Guess, George M.;
Document Date
1993/12/31
Document Type
Working Paper (Numbered Series)
Report Number
19827
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
Latin America, Caribbean,
Region
Latin America and Caribbean,
Disclosure Date
2010/07/01
Doc Name
Prospects for improved management of natural forests in Latin America
Keywords
small ruminant

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Kirmse,Robert; Constantino,Luis F.; Guess, George M..

Prospects for improved management of natural forests in Latin America (English). LATEN dissemination note ; no. 9 Washington, D.C. : The World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/289511468743797198

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