Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Application of Criteria and Indicators to Support Sustainable Forest Management: Some Key Issues -- 3 Policy Inflation, Capacity Constraints: Can Criteria and Indicators Bridge the Gap? -- 4 Between Voodoo Science and Adaptive Management: the Role and Research Needs for Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management -- 5 'Whose Forest is this, Anyway?' Criteria and Indicators on Access to Resources -- 6 Representing the Future: A Framework for Evaluating the Utility of Indicators in the Search for Sustainable Forest Management -- 7 SFM Indicators as Tools in Political and Economic Contexts: Actual and Potential Roles -- 8 Legal Frameworks in Criteria and Indicator Approaches -- 9 Collaborative Action and Technology Transfer as Means of Strengthening the Implementation of National-level Criteria and Indicators -- 10 Inventory and Forecasting Productive Capacity for Natural Forests -- 11 Indicators for Sustained Productive Capacity of New Zealand and Australian Plantation Forests -- 12 Indicators to Guide Management for Multiple Forest Use -- 13 Impacts of Environmental Stress on Forest Health: the Need for More Accurate Indicators -- 14 Guiding Concepts for the Application of Indicators to Interpret Change in Soil Properties and Processes in Forests -- 15 Catchment and Process Studies in Forest Hydrology: Implications for Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management -- 16 The Role of Forests in the Global Carbon Cycle -- 17 Ecosystem-level Forest Biodiversity and Sustainability Assessments for Forest Management -- 18 Assessing the Success of Off-reserve Forest Management in Contributing to Biodiversity Conservation -- 19 Spatial Patterns and Fragmentation: Indicators for Conserving Biodiversity in Forest Landscapes.

20 An Approach to Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management at the Sub-national Level in European Forestry -- 21 Conclusions -- Index.