FORESTRY FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT - MAKING IT HAPPEN

Sustainable development is a process of meeting the continuing, evolvi ng needs of people while protecting and enhancing the resource base on which all production of goods and environmental services depends. Goo d forest management is an essential part of the sustainable developmen t process. Given the need to share the benefits from forests, and give n the uncertainty we face concerning the future, a participatory adapt ive management approach is needed, one that lets us most easily adapt if we find in the future that we are on a path of unsustainable develo pment.