This Volume intends to elucidate the notion of forest sustainability in operational, Political and scientific terms. It brings together the ideas, facts and views from Africa, Asia, Europe and the Americas presented at the Conference Sustainable Forests: Global Challenges and Local Solutions. The presenters accomplished both a reality check and vision building exercise towards forest sustainability. Clearly, there are distrinct factors that cause and modify the loss of primary forests across regions.

Table of Contents:
INTRODUCTION, Editorial Summary, Formal Address; PART ONE: GLOBAL CHALLENGES, Quo Vadimus, Sustainability: The Panacea for Our Forestry Ills, Cultural Values versus Science, Sustainable Development of Forests as a Way to Preserve the Natural Basis of Foresty; PART TWO: LOCAL SOLUTIONS, Challenges to Managing Forests in Africa, Community Forest Management in Southern Asia, Predivinsk Lespromkhoz: A Case Studey on the Collaborative Restructuring of a Forest Product Based Community in Siberia, Ecologically Sustainable Land Use Planning in the Russian Lake Baikal Region, Forest Policy Evolution in Poland, Integrating a Research Station into Community Development and Area Protection in Nicaragua, Sustainable Forests: It's About Time (Montana), Partnership Building for Sustainable Development: A First Nations Perspective from Ontario, Precious Values: Integrating Diverse Forest Values into Forest Management Policy and Action (Ontario), Socio-Economic Sustainability in Forest Dependent Communities; PART THREE: SCIENTIFIC CONSIDERATIONS, An Ecological-Economic Analysis of the Role of Canadian Forests in Mitigating Global Climate Change, Value of Wilderness Protection in Saskatchewan: A Case Study of Existence Values, Sustaining Tropical Forest Biodiversity, Biodiversity values and Measures Applied to Forest Management, Values and Measures Applied to Forest Management, Characterizing and Comparing Landscape Diversity Using GIS and a Contagion Index, Artificial Nest Predation Dynamics Along a Forest Fragmentation Gradient: A Preliminary Analysis, Using Micropropagation to Conserve Threatened Rare Species in Sustainable Forests, Microbial Inoculants for Sustainable Forests; PART FOUR: PANEL DISCUSSION, Janna Kumi (Government), Hamish Kimmins (Academe), Steve Smith (Industry), Harvey Locke (Non-Governmental) Russell Diabo (First Nations) Lutz Fähser (International), Floor Discussion;