Actualités des Forêts Tropicales
Numéro 34 No. 2
The road to long-term sustainability is paved with knowledge
Faced with growing evidence of the havoc that climate change and biodiversity loss is wreaking on many parts of our world, pessimists sometimes argue that humanity is simply incapable of the “transformative” change required to ward it off. Human lives are too short, economic interests too entrenched, and politicians beset with too many crises for a sustained, multilateral drive to complete the energy transition and put the planet on a path to sustainability.
But that is to ignore a factor that continues to shift the needle toward action and growing confidence that it can bring significant positive change: knowledge of both the problems we face and of existing and emerging solutions.
The theme of this issue, The road to long-term sustainability is paved with knowledge, underscores the vital role of information, capacity building, and collaboration in advancing sustainable tropical forest management. The cover photo of a winding rural road serves as a metaphor for the journey toward sustainability: challenging but navigable with the right knowledge and tools. © ITTO
Sommaire
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Editorial
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Defining Amazon timber
par Ximena Herrera-Alvarez, Juan A. Blanco, Oliver L. Phillips, Vicente Guadalupe, Leonardo D. Ortega-López, Hans ter Steege, and Gonzalo Rivas-TorresThe unified MADERA dataset of Amazonian timber species can support sustainable forest management and biodiversity conservation across the region -
Forest certification at a crossroads
par Jennifer ConjeGrowing pressures on the forestry industry raise fundamental questions about the shape and purpose of certification schemes -
Sharing the love for tropical forests
par Paula SarigumbaCommunicating the importance of tropical forests to the general public is central to ITTO’s outreach activities in its host country, Japan -
Migrating caoba to Peru’s arid zones
par Jorge MalleuxAn ITTO project reveals the potential of plantations of big-leaf mahogany for both commercial production and forest landscape restoration -
The economic and personal value of peatlands
par Mohammad YunusAn ITTO Fellow returned to his roots to explore the economic value of Indonesia’s carbon-rich peatlands -
Certifying sustainability in Myanmar
par Barber ChoAn ITTO project has advanced the country’s certification systems and its ability to assure the legality and sustainability of its timber -
Tropical and topical
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Recent editions
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Events
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ITTO meetings
The theme of this issue, The road to long-term sustainability is paved with knowledge, underscores the vital role of information, capacity building, and collaboration in advancing sustainable tropical forest management. The cover photo of a winding rural road serves as a metaphor for the journey toward sustainability: challenging but navigable with the right knowledge and tools. © ITTO
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