Overview:

These criteria are concernced with policy as it relates to the environment.

Analysis:

no analysis available

Indicators:

48. The extent to which the legal framework clarifies property rights, provides for appropriate land tenure arrangements, recognizes customary and traditional rights of indigenous peoples, and provides means of resolving property disputes by due process
    
49. The extent to which the legal framework provides for periodic forest-related planning, assessment, and policy review that recognize the range of forest values, including coordination with relevant sectors
50. The extent to which the legal framework provides opportunities for public participation in policies and decisions related to forest, and supports public access to information
51. The extent to which the legal framework encourages "best practices" codes for forest management
52. The extent to which the legal framework provides for the management of forests to conserve special environmental, cultural, social, and/or scientific values
53. The extent to which the institutional framework supports the capacity to provide involvement activities and public education, awareness, and extension programs, and make available forest related information
54. The extent to which the institutional framework supports the capacity to undertake and implement periodic forest-related planning, assessment, and policy review process, including cross-sectional planning and coordination
55. The extent to which the institutional framework includes the capacity to develop and maintain human resource skills across relevant disciplines
56. The extent to which the institutional framework has the capacity to develop and maintain an efficient physical infrastructure, in order to facilitate the supply of forest products and services and support forest management
57. The extent to which the institutional framework has the capacity to enforce laws, regulations, and guidelines
58. The extent to which investment and taxation policies and the regulatory environment recognize the long-term nature of investments in forests, and the extent to which these policies and regulations permit capital to flow in and out of the forest sector in response to market signals, non-market economic valuations, and public policy decisions, in order to meet long-term demands for forest products and service
59. The extent to which the institutional framework supports nondiscriminatory trade policies for forest products
60. The availability and extent of up-to-date data, statistics, and other information important to measuring or describing indicators associated with criteria 1-7
61. Scope, frequency, and statistical reliability of forest inventories, assessments, monitoring, and other relevant information
62. Compatibility with other countries in measuring, monitoring, and reporting on indicators
63. Development of the scientific understanding of forest ecosystem characteristics and functions
64. Capacity to develop methodologies to measure and integrate the environmental and social costs and benefits of forest management into markets and public policies; and also the capacity to reflect forest-related resource depletion or replenishment in national accounting systems
65. Capacity to develop new technologies and to assess the socioeconomic consequences associated with the introduction of new technologies
66. Capacity to enhance the ability to predict the impacts of human intervention on forests
67. Capacity to predict the impacts of possible climate change on forests