In this report an overview of sustainability issues in Russian forestry is given, focusing on the European part of Russia and trade with the Netherlands. The present situation and developments in Russian forestry are described, taking into account the new Forest Code and increasing export tax on round wood. Trade of wood products between the Russia...
The FLEGT process is about the EU action plan on Forest Law Enforcement, Governance and Trade. This study focuses on the Governance aspects of FLEGT and was commissioned by the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature ad Food Quality of The Netherlands. There is a need to gain more insight into the definitions of 'governance' which apply to the forest secto...
Inter-sectoral coordination has become a central issue in different forest policy arenas worldwide and is considered to be essential for solving a whole range of problems the forest sector is currently facing
De koepvisie van Staatsbosbeheer geeft algemene handvatten aan het beheer door doelstellingen te koppelen aan maatregelen die in het terreinbeheer mogelijk, wenselijk of noodzakelijk zijn
The dominant European forest policy objective is to create multifunctional, mixed-species and uneven-aged forests. This objective includes the nature‐oriented conversion of monospecific plantations. To reach this objective, close-to-nature silviculture is applied. This generally entails natural regeneration in canopy gaps. In the Netherlands, exper...
This Outlook for the Development of European Forest Resources provides the methodologies, data, scenarios, and results of the outlook on the European forest resources from 2000 to 2040. The aim of this forest resource study was to analyse the impacts on the European forest resources under the level of fellings needed to fulfil the derived roundwood...
Aanvullend op brongerichte maatregelen wordt in het kader van Overlevingsplan Bos en Natuur (OBN) onderzoek gedaan en maatregelen getroffen om de effecten van vermesting, verzuring en verdroging terug te dringen en de voor Nederland karakteristieke (natuur)waarden van o.a. multifunctionele bossen te herstellen en te behouden. In OBN-verband zijn da...
