Assessing Forest Degradation: Towards the Development of Globally Applicable Guidelines

Authors:
FAO

Publication Date:
2011

Abstract/Summary:
This document pulls together a range of views and approaches to the assessment of forest degradation. It should be regarded as precursor to the development of comprehensive, globally applicable guidelines for assessing forest degradation. There is much work yet to be done on this important topic – we trust the present paper contributes to the goal of reducing and mitigating the inevitable processes of forest degradation.

Resource Type:
Technical Document

Source:
FAO

Link:
http://www.fao.org/docrep/015/i2479e/i2479e00.pdf