Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Agriculture and Rural Development -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- A User's Guide to the Forests Sourcebook -- What is not Covered by the Forests Sourcebook -- The Quick Reference Matrix -- Introduction: Opportunities and Challenges in the Forest Sector -- Introduction -- Why the Potential of Forests has not been Fully Harnessed -- Unlocking Forests' Potential -- The World Bank's Approach to the Forest Sector -- The World Bank's 2002 Forests Strategy and Operational Policy -- The Forests Strategy course for implementation -- Operational policies for World Bank-supported investment projects -- The World Bank's Lending to the Sector -- Overall lending profile -- Regional lending profile -- Progress to Date -- The Challenge Ahead -- Key global challenges -- Key Regional Challenges -- Key Challenges for the World Bank -- Purpose of the Forests Sourcebook -- Notes -- References Cited -- PART 1 Priority Themes and Operational Aspects -- CHAPTER 1 Forests for Poverty Reduction -- Introduction -- Past Activities -- Key Issues -- Future Priorities and Scaling-up Activities -- Selected Readings -- References Cited -- Cross-Referenced Chapters and Notes -- Note 1.1: Mainstreaming the Role of Forests in Poverty Alleviation: Measuring Poverty-Forest Linkages -- Operational Aspects -- Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Practitioners -- Selected Readings -- References Cited -- Cross-Referenced Chapters and Notes -- Note 1.2: Community-Based Forest Management -- Operational Aspects -- Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Practitioners -- Selected Readings -- References Cited -- Cross-Referenced Chapters and Notes -- Note 1.3 Indigenous Peoples and Forests -- Operational Aspects -- Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Practitioners -- Note -- Selected Readings -- References Cited.

Cross-Referenced Chapters and Notes -- Note 1.4 Property and Access Rights -- Operational Aspects -- Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Practitioners -- Selected Readings -- References Cited -- Cross-Referenced Chapters and Notes -- Note 1.5: Making Markets Work for the Forest-Dependent Poor -- Operational Aspects -- Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Practitioners -- Note -- Selected Readings -- References Cited -- Cross-Referenced Chapters and Notes -- CHAPTER 2 Engaging the Private Sector in Forest Sector Development -- Introduction -- Past Activities -- Key Issues -- Future Priorities for Activities -- Notes -- Selected Readings -- References Cited -- Cross-Referenced Chapters and Notes -- Annex 2A World Bank Analytical and Advisory Activities and Economic and Sector Work Related to Governance Reform -- Note 2.1: Company-Community Partnerships -- Operational Aspects -- Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Practitioners -- Note -- Selected Readings: Reviews -- Selected Readings: Country Cases -- References Cited -- Cross-Referenced Chapters and Notes -- Note 2.2: Small and Medium Enterprises -- Operational Aspects -- Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Practitioners -- Notes -- Selected Readings -- References Cited -- Cross-Referenced Chapters and Notes -- Annex 2.2A Checklist of Key Issues to Determine SME Program Direction and Feasibility -- Note 2.3: Innovative Marketing Arrangements: Payments for Environmental Services -- Operational Aspects -- Identifying and quantifying environmental services -- Charging service users -- Paying service providers -- Creating the institutional framework -- Ensuring the poor benefit -- Other operational considerations -- Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Practitioners -- Selected Readings -- References Cited.

CHAPTER 3 Meeting the Growing Demand for Forest Products: Plantation Forestry and Harvesting Operations in Natural Forests -- Introduction -- Past Activities -- Key Issues -- Future Priorities and Scaling-up Activities -- Notes -- Selected Resources -- Selected Readings -- References Cited -- Cross-Referenced Chapters and Notes -- Note 3.1: Mainstreaming Conservation Considerations into Productive Landscapes: Applying High-Conservation-Value Tools -- The HCV Concept-Why It IS Useful for Integrating Conservation and Production -- Operational Aspects -- HCV process: Implementing HCV assessment and defining management prescriptions -- Good practice in HCV assessment and management -- Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Practitioners -- Notes -- Selected Readings -- References Cited -- Cross-Referenced Chapters and Notes -- Note 3.2: Forest Certification Systems -- Overview and Considerations of Interest for World Bank Activities -- Operational Aspects -- Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Practitioners -- Barriers to certification -- Support to certification system development -- Note -- Selected Readings -- References Cited -- Cross-Referenced Chapters and Notes -- Note 3.3: Forest Plantations in World Bank Operations -- Overview and Considerations of Interest for World Bank Activities -- Operational Aspects -- Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Practitioners -- Recommended Reading -- References Cited -- Cross-Referenced Chapters and Notes -- CHAPTER 4 Optimizing Forest Functions in a Landscape -- Introduction -- Past Activities -- Key Issues -- Future Priorities and Scaling-Up Activities -- Notes -- Selected Readings -- References Cited -- Cross-Referenced Chapters and Notes -- Note 4.1: Integrated Forest Landscape Land-Use Planning -- Operational Aspects -- Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Practitioners -- Notes.

Selected Readings -- References Cited -- Cross-Referenced Chapters and Notes -- Note 4.2: Assessing Outcomes of Landscape Interventions -- Operational Aspects -- Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Practitioners -- Selected Readings -- References Cited -- Cross-Referenced Chapters and Notes -- Note 4.3: Using Adaptive Management to Improve Project Implementation -- Overview and Considerations of Interest for World Bank Activities -- Operational Aspects -- Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Practitioners -- Notes -- Selected Readings -- References Cited -- CHAPTER 5 Improving Forest Governance -- Introduction -- Past Activities -- Key Issues -- Future Priorities and Scaling-Up Activities -- Notes -- Selected Readings -- References Cited -- Cross-Referenced Chapters and Notes -- Note 5.1: Decentralized Forest Management -- Operational Aspects -- Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Practitioners -- Selected Readings -- References Cited -- Cross-Referenced Chapters and Notes -- Note 5.2: Reforming Forest Institutions -- Operational Aspects -- Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Practitioners -- References Cited -- Cross-Referenced Chapters and Notes -- Note 5.3: Strengthening Legal Frameworks in the Forest Sector -- Operational Aspects -- Working with the law -- Improving capacity and law through good process -- Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Practitioners -- Selected Readings -- References Cited -- Cross-Referenced Chapters and Notes -- Annex 5.3A A Checklist of Potential Issues for the Forest Law Adviser -- Tenure -- Public forest management -- Private forest management -- Decentralization and devolution of authority -- Sustainability and environmental protection -- Commerce and trade -- Finance and taxation -- Institutional reform -- Offenses and enforcement.

Annex 5.3B Six Drafting Principles for Creating Better Forest Laws -- Principle 1: Avoid legislative overreach -- Principle 2: Avoid unnecessary, superfluous, or cumbersome licensing and approval requirements -- Principle 3: Include provisions that enhance the transparency and accountability of forest decision-making processes -- Principle 4: Enhance the stake of local nongovernment actors in the sustainable management of forests -- Principle 5: The drafting of law needs to be a broadly participatory process -- Principle 6: Increase the effectiveness of direct law enforcement mechanisms set forth in forestry legislation -- Note 5.4: Strengthening Fiscal Systems in the Forestry Sector -- Operational Aspects -- Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Practitioners -- Selected Readings -- References Cited -- Cross-Referenced Chapters and Notes -- Annex 5.4A A Summary of the Different Types of Charges Used in Fiscal Systems in the Forestry Sector -- Note 5.5: Addressing Illegal Logging and Other Forest Crime -- Operational Aspects -- Understanding causes of illegal logging and other forest crime -- Framework to combat illegal logging and other forest crime -- Lessons Learned and Recommendations for Practitioners -- General lessons -- Country-level lessons -- Risks -- Opportunities -- Notes -- Selected Readings -- References Cited -- Cross-Referenced Chapters and Notes -- Annex 5.5A Drivers of Illegal Logging and Other Forest Crime: Motive, Means, and Opportunity -- Annex 5.5B Typical Contexts of Illegal Logging: Drivers and Potential Responses -- CHAPTER 6 Mainstreaming Forests into Development Policy and Planning -- Introduction -- Past Activities -- Key Issues -- Future Priorities and Scaling-up Activities -- Immediate measures -- Medium-term measures -- Notes -- Selected Readings -- References Cited -- Cross-Referenced Chapters and Notes.

Annex 6A Timescale of Impacts of Energy Sector Reform on Forests and Forest Industries.