Prof. Grard BUTTOUD, ENGREF, Nancy, France

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Prof. Gérard BUTTOUD, ENGREF, Nancy, France

• WHAT THE INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE ON FORESTS HAS
  CHANGED IN THE ROLE OF PRODUCTION IN PROMOTING
  SFM?

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Production vs. Protection?

• The conventional approach development against
  environment (become obsolete)
• The foresters view compromising between the two
  (still the basic concern with forest policies)
• The SFM issue the integration of the two in a
  same strategy (not reached so far)

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The new role of timber production

• The magic triangle production as an element in
  SFM (economic sustainability)
• The need for integration production choices
  subject to an analysis of their social and
  ecological impacts
• The use of wood -and not only the production-
  contributes to sustainability (market issues)

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How wood production and use may help in
integrating dev. env.?

• A first approach The full value of forests
• The market gives only one part of the value of
  the forest
• A need for internalising the externalities
  (environmental services)
• Wood production itself has a bigger value than
  its market price (carbon storage)

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How wood production and use may help in
integrating dev. env.?

• A second approach the wake effect of timber
  production
• All the utilities are equal, but one is more
  equal than the other ones (timber production)
• Focus on which production is able to draw more
  the other utilities (timber for construction?)

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How wood production and use may help in
integrating dev. env.?

• A third approach The ecosystem management
• a framework for integration of various utilities
  with minimum conflict and cost
• need of impact analysis (acceptable limits, side
  effects) on both ecological and social utilities

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How wood production and use may help in
integrating dev. env.?

• A fourth approach Basing on utilisation
• The certification issue (the consumers
  decisions?)
• The rationale of users (disconnection with the
  resource)
• The logic of the wood-chain the timber price as
  a residue

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For a  mixed  approach?

• A need for a concrete and pragmatic approach
  (depending on situations)
• A need for an adaptive management
• A need for combining expertise and communication
  (for an adapted decision making process)
• A need for a multi-theoretical framework