While major efforts have been made to conserve biodiversity in Australia and elsewhere, little attention has been paid to biodiversity in the planning and management of plantation forestry. Plantations are typically a form of dominant-use forestry where timber production is the priority goal....

This paper presents non-timber forest products (NTFPs) from native and planted forests in India, the Philippines, China and Australia, and associated issues including tenure, product marketing and rent sharing. Some of the limitations on harvesting of NTFPs are reviewed.

This paper provides an overview of the current state of reporting non-wood benefits among Australian forestry entities, and suggests an approach for incorporating non-wood values in statutory accounting reports by agencies responsible for the management of forest resources that has been performed...

This book contains 20 papers on related issues concerning small-scale forestry in the tropics, organized into four sections dealing with background setting, timber and marketing, non-wood forest benefits, and policy perspectives. It also presents an integrated socioeconomic analysis of the...

Forestry systems produce a diverse range of services, which need to be viewed within a societal context. This chapter addresses the interaction between the biological nature of plantation forests (and their design) and the social and economic issues which directly affect or are affected by the...

This paper presents the risk and uncertainty concepts in farm forestry. Sources of this risk are reviewed and attitudes of decision makers to risk are discussed. Methods of assessing investment risk in farm forestry are considered, and a case study of risk evaluation in north Queensland, Australia, ...

This paper discusses the development of preliminary models of stand yield and financial performance for Australian tree species namely Acacia mangium, Eucalyptus camaldulensis, E. tereticornis, E. pellita and E. urophylla grown in the Philippines. Yield and financial performance estimates of...

This paper presents the findings of a research project conducted by rural valuers and real estate agents on impact of reforestation with tropical rain forest species on agricultural land values in north Queensland, Australia.

This book arose from research undertaken in the socioeconomic programme of the Cooperative Research Centre for Tropical Rainforest Ecology and Management (Rainforest CRC) in north Queensland, Australia. The programme has examined a broad range of issues, originally with a focus on reforestation in...

This paper reviews the key insights of previous papers concerning small-scale forestry in the tropics: aspects of farm and community forestry, timber industry, non-timber benefits, and policy, and examines challenges and opportunities for small-scale forestry in the future. Elements common across...