Forestry Information Centre

The Forestry Library of the FAO Forestry Department, located at FAO headquarters in Rome and now part of the David Lubin Memorial Library, is a specialized library that holds approximately 6,000 books and over 600 current periodical titles, yearbooks and other serial titles on forestry and related areas. It also has a large collection of grey literature - including documentation on FAO forestry projects and papers and reports from various FAO Forestry meetings - much of which is not readily available anywhere else.

Subjects

Subjects covered include:

  • sustainable forest management
  • fire management
  • arid zone forestry
  • forest health
  • planted forests
  • genetic resources
  • wood energy
  • harvesting
  • industries
  • trade and forests
  • non-wood forest products
  • biodiversity
  • climate change
  • desertification
  • environment
  • utilization alien invasive species
  • forests and water
  • participatory processes
  • forests and poverty reduction
  • gender
  • small-scale enterprises
  • conflict management
  • forest law compliance and governance
  • national forests programmes
  • global forest resource assessment
  • and other related subjects

See also

  • World Forestry Congress
  • Unasylva: FAO's international journal of forestry and forest industries

References


External links

  • FAO Homepage
  • FAO Forestry Department Homepage
  • FAO Library Catalogue Online

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