Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Forestry in the Long Sweep of History (Keynote Address) -- 2 International Dialogue on Forests: Impact on National Policies and Practices (Keynote Address) -- 3 New Trends in Forest Policy and Management: an Emerging Postmodern Approach? -- 4 Utilizing Issue Network Analyses to Assess Potential Policy Implications of Sustainable Forest Management in the United States -- 5 Private Sector Participation on Public Forestlands: Challenges and Policy Issues -- 6 Planning Private Native Forest Use in Australia -- 7 The Three Impediments: Time, Fire and Taxes (Keynote Address) -- 8 Global Initiatives, Public Policies and Private Forestry in Bolivia: Lessons to Date and Remaining Challenges -- 9 Today and Tomorrow of Private Forestry in Central and Eastern Europe -- 10 Redesigning Forest Policy Tools Under a Transitional Economy Setting -- 11 Private Land and Public Goods: Process Lessons from Habitat Conservation Planning -- 12 Ensuring the Application of Sound Forest Practices on Private Forests: Challenges Facing the Design and Implementation of State Compliance Monitoring Programmes -- 13 Spatial Assessment of a Voluntary Forest Conservation Programme in North Carolina -- Appendix -- 14 Policy Developments Affecting Demand, Supply and International Trade of Forest Products: a European Perspective (Keynote Address) -- 15 Private Forest Management and Investment in the US South: Alternative Future Scenarios -- 16 An Economy-wide Assessment of a Forest Carbon Policy in the USA* -- 17 Forestry Implications of Agricultural Short-rotation Woody Crops in the USA -- 18 Management of the Forest Biodiversity: Feasibility, Efficiency and Limits of a Contractual Regulation -- 19 Case Studies Examining the Economic Impacts of New Forest Practices Regulations on NIPF Landowners.

20 Effect of the Federal Estate Tax on Rural Landholdings in the USA -- 21 Global Trade Liberalization and Forest Product Trade Patterns -- 22 Gaining Leverage: NGO Influence on Certification Institutions in the Forest Products Sector -- 23 Company Choices on Sustainable Forestry Forest Certification: the Case of JD Irving, Ltd -- 24 Improving Forest Management Through the Supply Chain: an Assessment of Wood Procurement Management Systems in the Forest Products Industry -- 25 Perspectives on Forest Certification: a Survey Examining Differences Among the US Forest Sectors' Views of their Forest Certification Alternatives -- 26 Certification: a Comparison of Perceptions of Corporate and Non-industrial Private Forestland Owners in Louisiana -- 27 Forest Certification in the Heart of Dixie: a Survey of Alabama Landowners -- Index.