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1
TitleAgenda 21: Chapter 11. Combating deforestation
AuthorUnited Nations Conference on Environment and Development
AbstractText of Chapter 11 of the Treaty adopted at the 1992 United Nations Confrence on
Environment and Development (UNCED - the Earth Summit") in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Plus, a
chapter of a 1997 UN report looking at progress five years later."
Type Treaty Chapter + R
AffiliationUnited Nations
URL:http://www.cnie.org/agenda21/a21-11.htm
Peer ReviewUnknown Review Process
2
TitleBibliography of Articles on the Effects of Air Pollution on Trees and Forests
AuthorDr. William B. Grant
AbstractBibliography, with 1,734 journal articles, 56 reports, 39 books 53 theses, and a smattering of
news reports and proceedings indexed. Over 700 contact names and addresses of experts in
the field of acid rain and deforestation are also presented.
Type Bibliography
AffiliationVirginia Sierra Club
URL:http://www.cnie.org/nle/treebib/treetop.htm
Peer ReviewUnknown Review Process
3
TitleBriefing Reports on Issues Related to Forests
AuthorVarious
AbstractReports are produced as nonpartisan briefing documents for the U.S. Congress.

Forest Service Receipt - Sharing Payments: Proposals for Change (10/29/99~6)
The National Trails System: An Overview (12/11/98~4p.)
Roadless Areas: The Administration's Moratorium (4/8/99~6p.)
The President's Forest/Roadless Area Initiative (10/28/99~4p.)
Wilderness Laws: Prohibited and Permitted Uses (10/9/98~5p.)
Chip Mill Industry in the South (6/10/98~6p.)
Forest Health ( 3/27/98 ~ 4 p.)
Federal Timber Harvests: Implications for U.S. Timber Supply (3/10/98~6p.)
Forest Service - Status of Progress Toward Financial Accountability (2/98~9p.)
Forest Roads: Construction and Financing (7/16/97~6p.)
Forest Service Decision-Making:A Framework for Improving Performance (4/29/97~74p in 5
sections.)
The Salvage Timber Sale Rider: Overview and Policy Issues (6/24/96~6 p.)
Forest Fires and Forest Health (6/7/96 ~ 5 p.)
Salvage Timber Sales and Forest Health (6/7/96 ~ 4 p.)
The Timber Rider": Section 2001 of the Rescissions Act (2/22/96 ~ 13 p.)
The Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management: History and Analysis of Merger
Proposals (11/7/95 ~ 18 p.)
Forest Service Timber Sale Practices and Procedures: Analysis of Alternative Systems
(10/30/95 ~ 33 p.)
International Forestry Agreements: Current Status (9/11/95 ~ 8 p.)
The Forest Service Budget: Trust Funds and Special Accounts (7/17/95 ~ 31 p.)
Below-Cost Timber Sales (12/20/94 ~ 17 p.)
Mahoganies: International Protection? (10/20/94 ~ 4 p.)
Lumber Prices-- 1993 (2/18/94 ~ 12 p.)
Restricting Softwood Exports: Policy and Legal Implications (8/13/93 ~ 21 p.)
Mexican Spotted Owls: Federal Protection (6/30/93 ~ 2p.)
The Clinton Administration's Forest Plan for the Pacific Northwest (7/16/93 ~ 5 p.)
Deforestation: An Overview of Global Programs and Agreements (10/21/92 ~ 80 p.)
Clear Cutting in the National Forests (7/29/92 ~ 21 p.)"

Type 19 Nontechnical Re
AffiliationCongressional Research Service, Library of Congress
URL:http://www.cnie.org/nle/crsfor.html
Peer ReviewInternal Review Process
4
TitleEcosystem Management Tools and Techniques: Proceedings of a CRS Workshop
AuthorWayne A. Morrissey
Abstract1995 report prepared as a briefing document for the U.S. Congress. emonstrate tools and
techniques used in scientific The purposes of his workshop were to research on ecosystems
and to address technological aspects of developing and administering a national policy for
ecosystem management. . . which addressed five policy questions:
    What are the opportunities and limitations of these tools?
    Where is the development of these tools headed, and how rapidly are they changing
    What are the costs associated with tools, and how do those costs compare with the
    cost of data acquisition?
    Is there a need for new or different data based upon the capabilities and opportunities of
    the tools? and,
    What is the potential of these tools for informing the public decision-making process and
    contributing to other national goals?"
Type Nontechnical Repor
AffiliationCongressional Research Service, Library of Congress
URL:http://www.cnie.org/nle/biodv-5.html
Peer ReviewInternal Review Process
5
TitleEcosystem Management: Federal Agency Activities
AuthorWayne A. Morrissey, Jeffrey A. Zinn, M. Lynne Corn,
Abstract1994 report prepared as a briefing document for the U.S. Congress. Eighteen Federal agencies
demonstrated their ecosystem management activities to the congressional community on
March 24, 1994, as part of a two-day ecosystem management symposium convened by the
Congressional Research Service . . . This report is a compilation of short papers distributed at
the demonstration, describing each participating Federal agency's ecosystem management
efforts. Each agency was asked to address five topics."
1. Ecosystem Management Activities.
2. Cooperation and Coordination.
3. Tools of Ecosystem Management.
4. Funding Ecosystem Management.
5. Ecosystem Management Limits and Opportunities."
Type Nontechnical Repor
AffiliationCongressional Research Service, Library of Congress
URL:http://www.cnie.org/nle/biodv-4.html
Peer ReviewInternal Review Process
6
TitleForests and Land Cover
AuthorWorld Resources Institute
AbstractThis is chapter 9 of the report World Resources, a primary reference volume on global
environmental and natural resource conditions and trends for the United Nations, World Bank,
and related international organizations. Related data tables are available in adobe format at
http://www.wri.org/wri/wr-96-97/wr96dtlc.pdf
Type Report
AffiliationWorld Resources Institute
URL:http://www.wri.org/wri/wr-96-97/lc_txt1.html
Peer ReviewUnknown Review Process
7
TitleGlobal Fire Monitoring
AuthorNASA, National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration
AbstractSite maintained as part of the U.S. government's research efforts on global change. Focuses on
fires world wide which particularly impact forests and grasslands. Includes sections on

Global Fire Monitoring - Overview
Case Studies
Related Data Sets

Type Satellite images,
AffiliationU.S. Government
URL:http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Library/GlobalFire/fire.html
Peer ReviewUnknown Review Process
8
TitlePopulation and Deforestation in Costa Rica
AuthorLuis Rosero-Bixby and Alberto Palloni.
AbstractThe paper addresses a central debate in research and policy on population and environment,
namely the extent to which rapid population growth is associated with the massive
deforestation underway in the tropics."
Type Technical Report (
AffiliationCenter for Demography and Ecology (CDE) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
URL:http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cde/cdewp/96-19.pdf
Peer ReviewUnknown Review Process
9
TitlePopulation Dynamics and the Assessment of Land Use Changes and Deforestation
AuthorRudi Drigo and Alain Marcoux
AbstractPaper explores links between population and deforestation in tropical countries. They highlight
the need for "analysing population-deforestation linkages at several geographical levels in order
to combine complementary angles of analysis and thus avoid misconceptions and
simplifications". Paper addresses:
1. Population density and forest cover
1.1 Population and deforestation: statistical correlation
1.2 A case study of the Brazilian Amazon
2. Population and land use changes in tropical countries
2.1 The assessment of land use changes through remote sensing
2.2 Role of population factors in land use changes
2.3 Environmental impact of different population groups
Annex 1: Estimating the forest change model
Annex 2: Regional biomass flux diagrams"
Type Semi-technical Rev
AffiliationUnited Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
URL:http://www.fao.org/sd/WPdirect/WPan0030.htm
Peer ReviewUnknown Review Process
10
TitleState of the Environment CHINA 1997 - Forest Resources
AuthorJianguo Wang
AbstractReport provides overview of environmental conditions in China, includes: Forest Resources
Type Report
AffiliationState Environmental Protection Administration, China
URL:http://www.zhb.gov.cn/english/SOE/soechina1997/forest/index.htm
Peer ReviewUnknown Review Process
11
TitleState of the World's Forests 1997
AuthorFood and Agriculture Organization
AbstractInformation on the current status of the world's forests, major developments over the reporting
period (1995-1997), and recent trends and future directions in the forestry sector. Table of
Contents and Executive Summary are available in HTML format, the remainder is in an Adobe
Acrobat format.
Type Report
AffiliationUnited Nations
URL:http://www.fao.org/forestry/fo/sofo/sofo97/97sum-e.stm
Peer ReviewUnknown Review Process
12
TitleThe Problems of Forest Loss
AuthorWorld Resources Institute
AbstractAddresses: [1] Forest Data, [2] Forest Type, [3] Forest Loss, [4] Related Links
Type article
AffiliationWorld Resources Institute
URL:http://www.wri.org/biodiv/intl-ii.html
Peer ReviewUnknown Review Process
13
TitleUnited Nations Environment Programme
AuthorVarious
AbstractCompilation of information resources on forest fires. Includes:
    Global Forest Fires (Global Fire Monitoring and Fire Detection Around the World)
    Florida Forest Fires (links to news and organizations)
    Forest Fires in Indonesia (Data Sets including satellite images, Discussion Papers,
    Links)
    Forest Fires in Mexico (maps)
    Forest Fires in Brazil (Paper called Origin, Incidence, and Implications of Amazon Fires,
    data sets including satellite images, Links)
Type Maps, data, images
AffiliationCompiled by United Nations Environment Programme Global Resource Information Database
URL:http://grid2.cr.usgs.gov/
Peer ReviewUnknown Review Process


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