Capacity Building for the Planning, Assessment and Systematic Observations of Forests
This book is intended to support the forestry institutions in the tropical countries in the planning, assessment and systematic observation of forests required to fulfill their obligations as laid in international conventions such as the CBD and UNFCCC. F
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Series Editors Rod Allan Ulrich Förstner Wim Salomons
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Karan Deo Singh
Capacity Building for the Planning, Assessment, and Systematic Observations of Forests With Special Reference to Tropical Countries
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Karan Deo Singh Academy of Forest and Environmental Sciences New Delhi India
ISSN 1431-6250 ISBN 978-3-642-32291-4 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-32292-1
ISBN 978-3-642-32292-1
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to Indira
Participants of the first FAO/SIDA Training Course on Forest Inventory held in Sweden, 1974
Foreword
It is a great pleasure to write a few words on the book and on the author, with whom I have been associated for over 50 years. When reading the text now I put some questions to myself. Is the book only a survey into the history of international forestry cooperation that is of relevance only for persons like me, who have been involved in the capacity development since the early 1960s? Does the book contain knowledge that is worth preserving for future generations? My answer is both. My first experience of international forestry coo
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