Sustainability and the Canadian forest sector

The present paper examines the efficiency of the current established criter ia and indicators for sustainable development of the for est sector. The cu rrent system of criteria and indicators concentrates on the management aspe cts instead of objective setting. The current system is too complicated to be implemented and neglects the fact that sustainability cannot be achieved by a top-down approach but only by the people working on the ground at the local level. This paper presents a number of guidelines on the necessary s teps to be taken in order to move towards what we call "a forest sector for sustainable development.".