Forestry management for sustainable development
Forests in the developing world are in crisis. Nowhere is this more acute than in Asia: though one-third of the land mass is covered with forests, this ratio is shrinking rapidly at the rate of 2 million hectares per year. By current trends, half of the original 725 million hectares will disappear by the year 2000. The dramatic declines will occur in India, Nepal, Philippines, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Some of the economic costs of deforestation are obvious. Timber export has long been an important income earner (eg, it is a second major export after oil earning $4.2 billion in 1991 for Indonesia and $3.8 billion in 1992 for Malaysia). Some of the losses from deforestation are of concern to the world community. China, India, Indonesia, and Malaysia are among the 12 'mega-diversity' countries in which half of the earth's plant and animal species are to be found. (Copyright (c) 1993 The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank.)
- Research Organization:
- International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, Washington, DC (United States). Economic Development Inst.
- OSTI ID:
- 5104615
- Report Number(s):
- PB-94-144920/XAB; POLICY SEMINAR-32
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: Library of Congress catalog card No. 93-6024
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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