The question of protecting forests under an international binding convention has challenged nations like few other environmental issues and dominated much of the "United Nations Conference on Environment and Development" (UNCED) in 1992, where countries ultimately adopted a set of...

Since the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, the international community entered a political dialogue on required actions for the promotion of management, conservation and sustainable development of the world’s forests (all types of...

In order to monitor and report progress towards sustainable forest management (SFM), the third Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (MCPFE) adopted a set of pan-European criteria and indicators in Lisbon in 1998. The criteria and indicators cover economical, ecological...