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Testing a new financial method for sustainable forest management in Colombia

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Authors: Robledo, C. A.

Colombia - 2002

ISBN: 90-5113-064-3

Language: English

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Sustainable forest management does not only imply sustained yield forestry and sustaining a wider array of forest functions, but furthermore a high degree of economic feasibility and social acceptance. With this challenge in mind, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Testing and Research (EMPA) and the forest group of the Worldwide Fund for Nature developed a project idea in 1998 with the aim to explore options for long-term financing of sustainable forest management in tropical regions.

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