IUCN, the International Union for Conservation of Nature

The goal of this project was to build the capacity of selected government agencies and civil society organisations to utilise public involvement processes in forest conservation and management decision-making. The project was managed in Russia with very close collaboration with the TBFP team in Canada. CIDA provided financial support to the project, which ran until March 2006.

This publication is a collection of documents and reports relating to the first stages of the Europe and Northern Asia Forest Law and Enforcement and Governance process (ENA-FLEG).

This summary project report provides a description of the main activities and results of a project aimed at identifying and responding to challenges related to the Russian legal framework and patchwork of agencies and actors having a role to play on illegal logging, forest law enforcement and broader forest governance (FLEG). This brochure was disseminated duerin Chatham House meeting on Illegal logging in January 2006.

The Wellbeing of Forests brings together 26 indicators of human and ecosystem wellbeing using IUCN's pioneering Sustainability Assessment method. The Wellbeing publication is intended to complement Wellbeing Scores software, which allows users to explore different standards and combinations of what comprises sustainable development. The Wellbeing of Forests hopes to encourage debate amongst forest conservationists and critics and provide them with a platform for exploring the new software, Wellbeing Scores.

For more information please download:

• Publication
  • Part A - Understanding and applying the Sustainability Assessment method (740kb)
  • Part B - Wellbeing Scores software manual (4.16Mb)
• Presentation
  
  • An introduction to the concept and its accompanying software: (70kb)

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