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International initiatives to achieve sustainable management of forests: Canada's Model Forests, the Commonwealth Forestry Initiative, and the development assistance community

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Recent efforts to translate the concept of sustainable development into practice have led to the establishment of innovative new international programmes. These new programmes, including the Canadian Model Forest Initiative, regional cooperative programmes sponsored by the Canadian International Development Agency in Southeast Asia, Southern Africa and the Caribbean, and the Commonwealth Forestry Initiative, are described. An examination of these initiatives reveals that sustainable approaches to forest management are based on a wider consideration of biological and socio-economic issues in the forest and surrounding areas, and that more and more, decision-making processes are taking into account a variety of different interests. Working models of sustainable management are still rare, but as these and other initiatives begin to provide insight into the concept of sustainable management, there will be a need to combine programmes, to form networks and to coordinate the exchange of scientific, technical and policy results.

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Les récents efforts pour mettre en pratique le concept du développement durable ont mené à l'établissement de programmes internationaux novateurs. Ces programmes, notamment le Programme canadien de forêts modèles, les programmes coopératifs régionaux parrainés par l'Agence canadienne de développement international dans le Sud-Est asiatique, en Afrique du Sud et dans les Caraïbes, ainsi que l'Initiative forestière du Commonwealth, sont décrits dans l'article. Leur examen révèle que les approches durables de l'aménagement forestier se fondent sur la prise en considération plus large des questions biologiques et socio-économiques dans les zones boisées et leurs environs, et que, de plus en plus, les processus décisionnels tiennent compte de divers intérêts. Les modèles fonctionnels de développement durable demeurent rares, mais, après avoir approfondi le concept du développement durable grâce à des initiatives de ce genre, il faudra combiner les programmes, former des réseaux et coordonner l'échange de résultats scientifiques, techniques et stratégiques.

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Brand, D.G.; Roberts, R.W.; Kemp, R. 1993. International initiatives to achieve sustainable management of forests: Canada's Model Forests, the Commonwealth Forestry Initiative, and the development assistance community. Commonwealth Forestry Review 72(4): 297-302.

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International initiatives to achieve sustainable management of forests: Canada's Model Forests, the Commonwealth Forestry Initiative, and the development assistance community