Emerging international forest and forest related issues: challenges to foresters for future forestry sector development in Malaysia

Mohd. Jinis Abdullah, . and Jeffri Abd. Rasid, . and Harry Yong, . (2015) Emerging international forest and forest related issues: challenges to foresters for future forestry sector development in Malaysia. [Proceedings Paper]

The issues of environment and forest get the world;s attention since the Forestry Conference of the United Nations UN on the Environment and Man in Stockholm Sweden in 1972. It became more pronounced and was warmly debated during the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development UNCED in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. It was the beginning of an era in which forestry issues were discussed at a global arena in a comprehensive and integrated manner. Issues in forestry matters are cross-cutting and are discussed at many international processes as well as at regional and national levels. Malaysia is a party to various international conventions on forests and environmental related agreements. These international processes either directly or indirectly touch on forestry issues that are related to sustainable forest management biodiversity conservation environmental protection and lately trade. To add to complication NGOs have established their own platforms and mechanisms to discuss similar forestry matters. Furthermore in an increasing liberalized and borderless world where trans-boundary and global environmental impacts of forest and forest-related activities are also the concern of other nations. This paper attempts to highlight the challenges confronting foresters in addressing forest and forest-related issues in formulating future strategies for forest sector development in Malaysia.

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Abstract

The issues of environment and forest get the world;s attention since the Forestry Conference of the United Nations UN on the Environment and Man in Stockholm Sweden in 1972. It became more pronounced and was warmly debated during the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development UNCED in Rio de Janeiro in 1992. It was the beginning of an era in which forestry issues were discussed at a global arena in a comprehensive and integrated manner. Issues in forestry matters are cross-cutting and are discussed at many international processes as well as at regional and national levels. Malaysia is a party to various international conventions on forests and environmental related agreements. These international processes either directly or indirectly touch on forestry issues that are related to sustainable forest management biodiversity conservation environmental protection and lately trade. To add to complication NGOs have established their own platforms and mechanisms to discuss similar forestry matters. Furthermore in an increasing liberalized and borderless world where trans-boundary and global environmental impacts of forest and forest-related activities are also the concern of other nations. This paper attempts to highlight the challenges confronting foresters in addressing forest and forest-related issues in formulating future strategies for forest sector development in Malaysia.

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Item Type:	Proceedings Paper
AGROVOC Term:	Forestry
AGROVOC Term:	Forests
AGROVOC Term:	Forest management
AGROVOC Term:	Foresters
AGROVOC Term:	Forest resources
AGROVOC Term:	Resource conservation
AGROVOC Term:	Forest ecology
AGROVOC Term:	Environmental factors
AGROVOC Term:	Legislation
AGROVOC Term:	Climate change
Geographical Term:	MALAYSIA
Depositing User:	Ms. Suzila Mohamad Kasim
Last Modified:	24 Apr 2025 05:16
URI:	http://webagris.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/13734

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