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  • 2 - Why Forests Matter?

  • from Part I - Wicked Problems and Policies
  • Edited by William Nikolakis, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, John L. Innes, University of British Columbia, Vancouver
  • Book:
    The Wicked Problem of Forest Policy
    Published online:
    24 July 2020
    Print publication:
    30 July 2020, pp 33-58

  • Summary

    Forest policy is a wicked problem precisely because forests matter to so many different people for so many different reasons. Developing institutions to mediate among the various claimants to forest land, buyers and sellers of forest goods, and beneficiaries of forest services has proven challenging to local user groups and international negotiators alike. This chapter focuses on tropical forests, which have a disproportionately significant value for global biodiversity conservation and climate stability, as well as contributing to the livelihoods of some of the world’s poorest people. However, tropical forests are disappearing at alarming rates. There are no simple solutions to solving wicked forest policy problems, but community forestry, improved governance, changing norms, new forms of finance and technology, such as advances in remote sensing technology, are crucial to sustainably managing forests.