Language: English
ISBN/ISSN: 750383269X
Published on: 1999-01
Hardcover
On June 13th and 14th ,2002, the CCIED Western China Forest Grasslands Task Force held the International Forum on Chinese Forest Policy in Beijing in order to help develop a forest policy research agenda in six key areas concerning to the Chinese forest sector and the ongoing reform and restructuring process in China.
This book introduces the process of this forum and focuses on the summarized presentations and recommendations from a broad range of stakeholders, researchers and policymakers. The six key themes of the Forum were forest policy in transition; taxation and fiscal policies; forest land tenure and ownership; forest harvesting regulation; forest governance and administration; and forestry and trade liberalization.
The complete presentations and formal papers are available on CD-ROM, which is attached to the printed version of the proceedings.
Contents
1. Introduction
2. Forum Agenda
3. Welcome Remarks
4. Opening Speech
5. Overview of China's Sustainable Forestry development Strategy
6. Experiences from other Countries Transforming their forest policy Frameworks
7. Forest Tax and Fiscal Plicy Issues in China: Status and Implications for reform
8. Recommendations for improving the Chinese public payment schemes for ecological services
9. Issues in Collecive forest Tenure and Opportunities to Strengthen Security in China
10. Forest Tenure in Transition: International Experiences and Trends
11. Forest Yield Regulation: New Approaches to an Old Problem
12. Harvesting quotas in China
13. Logging Ban: International Experiences
14. Independent Certification and Government Regulation: How they can be mutually supportive
15. Forest Governance in China: Status and Issues
16. The Role of the Federal Government in the U.S.and Canada
17. World ad Regional Trade Agreements and Forestry-Emerging Issues and Implications for Governments
18. Implications of APEC and WTO on Timber Trade in China
19. Group Discussions; Identifying Elements of a research agenda
20. Setting and Agenda for future forestry policy research
21. Concluding Comments
22. Closing speech-summary
23. Summary of Presentations in Chinese
24. Discussions and Outputs for the Policy Research agenda
25. List of Participants
26. Papers and Presentation (CD-ROM)
