strategy
Monitoring timber production
Synonyms:
Following timber industry trendsSurveying wood produce markets
Reviewing forest product sales
Description:
Compiling information and statistics on such areas as: the distribution of forest and other wooded land and land-use classification; types of forest and other wooded land; species groups; stocked and unstocked forest land; exploitable and unexploitable forest and other wooded land; ownership and management status; number and size distribution of holdings; changes in areas of forest and other wooded land; standing volume and growing stock; volume and mass of woody biomass; annual increment; fellings and removals; other trends and changes; importance of forestry functions; environmental and other non-wood forest goods and services; policy and planning activities relating to forest functions; areas of public concern and conflicts between forest functions.
Implementation:
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe collates and publishes information on the production, trade flows, exports, imports and prices of forest products. It also provides market analyses and future trends.
Broader:
Monitoring industry sectorResearching forest economicsConveying economic sociologiesImproving forest resource managementMonitoring status of forest resources Constrains:
Using available timber resources Facilitates:
Controlling private loggersEnsuring profitable wood industryConstructing useful wood productsProtesting sale of tropical timberPromoting green sourcingResearching sustainable agricultureLegislating trade in forest productsProjecting resource consumption trends Facilitated by:
Monitoring sales Problems:
Environmental hazards from loggingIllegal tropical timber trade
Unavailability of timber resources
Underdevelopment of forestry industry
Unemployment in the wood industry
Unsustainable development of forest lands
References:
United Nations Economic Commission for Europe: Timber Trends and Prospects for North AmericaUnited Nations Economic Commission for Europe: European Timber Trends and Prospects to the Year 2000 and BeyondUnited Nations Economic Commission for Europe: Timber Bulletin Subjects:
Agriculture, Fisheries → ForestryCommerce → Market
Commerce → Merchants
Economics → Economics
Industry → Industry
Industry → Production
Industry → Products
Industry → Timber
Research, Standards → Inspection, tests
Research, Standards → Research
Research, Standards → Surveying
Type Classification:
G: Very Specific strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
