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Table 7.3<br />

An Example of the Number and Cost of Field Plots in a Global Survey Using Field Data Only<br />

Land area Forest area Field plot Number of Estimated costs<br />

Region (million ha) (million ha) area (ha) field plots (US$ thousand)<br />

Africa 2,978 650 13,692 69,221 30,457<br />

Asia 3,085 548 28,540 30,010 13,205<br />

Europe 2,260 1,039 28,268 44,751 19,690<br />

North and Central America 2,137 549 27,814 27,421 12,065<br />

Oceania 849 198 25,960 10,898 4,795<br />

South America 1,755 886 21,648 49,035 21,575<br />

Total 13,064 3,870 145,922 231,336 101,787<br />

Source: Tomppo and Czaplewski 2002.<br />

The criteria express the objectives of forestry, as negotiated<br />

in political processes, but the identification of indicators for<br />

national-level performance in meeting the criteria is more<br />

difficult.<br />

Indicators are seldom optimal because they often need to<br />

be generated from a rapid process and, therefore, are identified<br />

based on the data that is available. Furthermore, indicators<br />

identified at an international level may not be considered<br />

equally valid or important among participating<br />

countries. This raises the need to agree on internationally<br />

accepted criteria, but also develop national indicators.<br />

FUTURE PRIORITIES AND SCALING-UP<br />

ACTIVITIES<br />

The following activities should be given priority:<br />

■<br />

■<br />

■<br />

■<br />

building capacity and investing in technology for effectively<br />

monitoring land-use change<br />

assistance in effectively measuring forest cover and carbon<br />

emissions at the project-intervention level and effective<br />

integration of this information into national<br />

accounting systems on carbon emissions<br />

supporting research to develop improved and affordable<br />

methodologies and technologies for national forest<br />

inventories<br />

supporting development and maintenance of national<br />

and regional networks of forest-related monitoring<br />

NOTES<br />

1. The United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development<br />

(CSD), the UN Convention to Combat Desertification<br />

(CCD), the UNFCCC, the CBD, CITES, the CMS,<br />

the Convention on Wetlands of International Importance<br />

especially as Waterfowl Habitat (Ramsar Convention), the<br />

Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural<br />

and Natural Heritage (World Heritage Convention),<br />

the UN Forum on <strong>Forests</strong> (UNFF), and the International<br />

Tropical Timber Agreement (ITTA).<br />

2. A GIS is a collection of computer hardware, software,<br />

and geographic data for capturing, managing, analyzing,<br />

and displaying all forms of geographically referenced information.<br />

See http://www.GIS.com.<br />

SELECTED READINGS<br />

FAO. 2005. “Global Forest <strong>Resource</strong>s Assessment 2005:<br />

Progress Towards Sustainable Forest Management.” FAO<br />

Forestry Paper 147, FAO, Rome. http://www.fao.org/<br />

forestry/site/fra/en/.<br />

Lange, G.-M. 2004. “Manual for Environmental and Economic<br />

Accounts for Forestry: A Tool for Cross-Sectoral<br />

Policy Analysis.” Working Paper, FAO, Rome, Italy. http://<br />

www.fao.org/docrep/007/j1972e/J1972E00.htm#TOC.<br />

International Tropical Timber Organization (ITTO). 2005.<br />

Revised ITTO Criteria and Indicators for the Sustainable<br />

Management of Tropical <strong>Forests</strong> Including Reporting Format.<br />

Yokohama, Japan: International Tropical Timber<br />

Organization. http://www.itto.or.jp/live/Live_Server/<br />

963/ps15e.pdf.<br />

Ministerial Conference on the Protection of <strong>Forests</strong> in<br />

Europe (MCPFE). 2002. “Improved Pan-European<br />

Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management.”<br />

MCPFE, Vienna, Austria. http://www.forestry.gov.uk/<br />

pdf/mcpfeindic03.pdf/$FILE/mcpfeindic03.pdf.<br />

The Montréal Process. “Criteria and Indicators.” http://<br />

www.mpci.org/criteria_e.html.<br />

REFERENCES CITED<br />

Braatz, S. 2002. “National Reporting to Forest-Related International<br />

Instruments: Mandates, Mechanisms, Overlaps<br />

and Potential Synergies.” Unasylva 53/No. 210 (Forest<br />

Assessment And Monitoring): 65–67.<br />

CHAPTER 7: MONITORING AND INFORMATION SYSTEMS FOR FOREST MANAGEMENT 255

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