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UNU Update | |
The newsletter of United Nations
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Issue 28: November-December 2003 |
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New forest strategies for The challenges faced by countries with economies in transition (CITs) in developing forest policy will be discussed at an international symposium in Belgrade November 21-23. The first report on Forests in Transition, published by UNU Press and focusing on the role of research and higher education in developing national forest programmes in CITs, will be launched at the symposium. The primary aim of the event is to discuss new strategies for developing the mechanisms and instruments to building a knowledge-based, innovative framework to formulate and implement forest policy in rapidly changing socio-economic and environmental conditions. The need to
incorporate
science, research and capacity building in forest policy formulation and
implementation at the national as well as the international level was
emphasized at the Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in
The Belgrade symposium will address these issues within the context of the on-going
rapid transformations in countries with economies in transition.
Discussions will continue the dialogue among experts from transition
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