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Workshop
FORESTS - COMMON BENEFITS
SHARED RESPONSIBILITIES, MULTIPLE POLICIES
Riga, Latvia, 17-19 October 2005

The workshop was organized by the MCPFE Liaison Unit/Warsaw in cooperation with UNECE/FAO Timber Branch and the Governments of Switzerland and Latvia.

The workshop was undertaken in response to Vienna Resolution 1, in which the ministers responsible for European's forests recognized the need for strengthened synergies for sustainable forest management in Europe through cross-sectoral cooperation. The importance of cross-sectoral cooperation has also been stressed in the UNECE/FAO European Forest Sector Outlook Study (EFSOS).
The workshop aimed to tackle the complex cross-sectoral issues at a level of policy formulation. In order to stimulate cross-sectoral discussion during the workshop, the organizers invited not only foresters but also specialists from other fields, such as: energy, agriculture and rural development, nature conservation, water management, financial sector, and trade and globalization.

  • Objectives of the workshop:
    Improve understanding of major political developments as well as changes outside and within the forest sector that have led to the necessity of cross-sectoral networks;
  • Enhance understanding of how policies and strategies, developed in other sectors, influence the forest sector and vice versa;
  • Analyse selected cross-sectoral issues, actors and interactions, especially concerning the forest sector and policies for energy, nature conservation, trade and globalization, financial sector, agriculture and rural development;
  • Identify ways of coordination, cooperation or integration for each selected policy sector; and
  • Explore examples of cross-sectoral networks, processes and partnerships.

OTHER RELATED MEETINGS

UNECE/FAO Workshop on policy consequences of the European Forest Sector Outlook Study, Budapest, 20-21, June

 

 

EFSOS Main report

EFSOS Discussion papers

Forecasts of economic growth in OECD and central and
eastern European countries for the period 2000-2040;

by NOBE Independent Centre for Economic Studies, ECE/TIM/DP/24

Russian Federation Forest Sector Outlook Study; by Research and Design Institute on Economics, Production Management and Information for Forest, Pulp and Paper and Woodworking  Industries (OAO “NIPIEIlesprom”), ECE/TIM/DP/27          

Employment Trends and Prospects in the
European Forest Sector;
by Peter Blombäck, Peter Poschen,
and Mattias Lövgren
, ECE/TIM/DP/29    

Modelling and Projections of Forest Products Demand,
Supply and Trade in Europe;
by Kari Kangas and Anders Baudin ECE/TIM/DP/30

The Development Of European Forest Resources,
1950 To 2000: A Better Information Base;
by Stefan Gold ECE/TIM/DP/31

The Policy Context of the European Forest Sector;
by Carsten Thoroe, Tim Peck, Helena Guarin Corredor and
Franz Schmithüsen
, ECE/TIM/DP/34

Forest Legislation in Europe; by Josephine Bauer,
Matleena Kniivilä, and Franz Schmithüsen
, ECE/TIM/DP/37

Outlook for the Development of European Forest Resources
(estimated publication date, Fall of 2005);
by Gert-Jan Nabuurs
and Andreas Schuck
,
ECE/TIM/DP/41

  • EFSOS data bases (projections by country)

Country Data Tables (notes and conversion factors)
Western Europe - Eastern Europe - CIS

Data used in publication (zipped files)
wood raw material balance - resources - roundwood and pulp - products - trade analysis

  • Presentations related to EFSOS

EFSOS Basic Presentation

Kit Prins, Paris, December 2004 (en français)

Adrian Whiteman, Geneva, April 2004

Sven Walter, Ireland, April 2004

 

 

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