Forest sector indicators : an approach for Central America
Linddal, Michael | Winograd, Manuel | Farrow, Andrew | Aguilar, Marta
This paper, Forest sector indicators: an approach for Central America, presents an outline and discussion for developing national indicators for the forest sector in Central America, focusing on Honduras as a country case study. It is intended to present an example of how indicators in a sector can be developed on available data. Rather than a comprehensive analysis of the forest sector in Central America based on empirical data, the paper is primarily aimed at demonstrating an approach for a selected sector as an input to a larger project on rural sustainability indicators in the region. The objective of this forest sector example is to demonstrate how policy-relevant issues can be addressed at the regional and national level through the use of available forest sector information derived from existing data sources. The sector example does not attempt to reach the local level where the key sector issues are related to management. Moreover, it is not an attempt to develop indicators where information is not available or relatively easy to retrieve. The forest sector paper is organized in five main chapters: 1. Introduction, including objectives and a brief description of the rural sustainability indicator project for Central America; 2. Key conceptual issues in the development and application of forest indicators; 3. The regional view for Central America; 4. The national level, with examples based on geo-referenced and tabulated indicators from the forest sector in Honduras; and 5. Further examples of possible developments of advanced forest indicators.
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