Foreword

I. Introduction

Elements of Sustainable Forest Management

Indonesia\'s Forests: Context, Conditions and Trends

U.S. Forests: Context, Conditions and Trends

II. Ownership, Access, and Control Over Forest Lands

Forest Tenure in Indonesia

• The National Tenure System for Forest Lands
• A Profile of Customary Forest-Tenure Systems
• The Impacts of Indonesia\'s Forest-Tenure System
• Unbalanced Rights and Responsibilities in Production Forests
• Directions and Strategies for Change

Forest Tenure in the United States

• Forest Ownership, Rights and Responsibilities in the Pacific Northwest
• Private Forest Lands
• Public Forest Lands
• Balancing Rights and Responsibilities

III. Economic Development and Forest Utilization

The Economics of Indonesia\'s Forestry Sector

• Transitions in Indonesia\'s Timber Economy
• The Distribution of Costs and Benefits
• Continuing Dependencies on Heavy Timber Harvests

The Economics of the Pacific Northwest Forestry Sector

• The Changing Timber Economy
• Concentrated Benefits and Diffuse Costs
• Dependencies and Transition

Toward Sustainable and Equitable Forest Economies

IV. The Political Economy of Forest Policy Reform

Forest Policy-making in Indonesia

• Who are the Dominant Stakeholders?
• Public Participation and Access to Information
• Structural Ignorance

Forest Policy-making in the United States

• Who Benefits from High Harvest Levels?
• A Forest Policy Process Divided Against Itself
• Influencing the Political Process
• Public Participation
• Structural Ignorance

Toward Effective Forest Policy-making

V. Conclusions and Recommendations

Reforming Forest Policy-making

Toward Sustainable Forest Economies

Revamping Forest-Tenure Regimes

References