Prof. Gérard BUTTOUD, ENGREF, Nancy, France

• WHAT THE INTERNATIONAL DIALOGUE ON FORESTS HAS CHANGED IN THE ROLE OF

PRODUCTION IN PROMOTING SFM?

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)

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)

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)

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?)

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

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

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