Skip to main content

page search

Library Policy and legislation

Policy and legislation

Policy and legislation

Resource information

Date of publication
November 1993
Resource Language
ISBN / Resource ID
FAODOCREP:4cc6a47c-e0ef-5ddb-ab6c-d0a6792771f9
License of the resource

Over the past two decades, perspectives on the role of the forest for society have evolved and broadened dramatically; the relatively narrow official view of the forest as primarily a source of wood and a form of protection for upland water resources has been seriously questioned and sometimes even violently opposed in favour of an approach that reflects a wider range of present and future opportunities and demands from forests and forest resources. Against this background, in many countries of both the developing and industrialized regions, forest policies and related legislation have been criticized for lagging behind in reflecting changing priorities and in harmonizing potentially conflicting demands. This issue of Unasylva looks at some of the important elements of both the "process" and the "products" of forest policy and legislative revision.

Share on RLBI navigator
NO