Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management

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C&I for SFM
Start date: 2003
Scope: Europe
Policy area: Forest and forestry
Type of instrument: Informational
Form of instrument: Qualitative and quantitative indicators
Language: English
URL: C&I for SFM website
Format: html
Access: Free
Publisher: C&I for SFM Liaison Unit
Country(ies): France, Finland, Portugal, Austria, Poland, Norway, Spain
Date: 9.10.2011

The pan-European Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management (C&I for SFM) are an internationally agreed policy instrument for evaluating and reporting on SFM at the pan-European and national levels.

Objective To monitor, assess and report on progress towards sustainable forest management.
Target Forest resources and carbon, health and vitality, productive functions, biodiversity, protective functions, socio-economic functions
Policy and/or legal framework United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (1992); Chapter 11 of the Agenda 21; Ministerial Conference on the Protection of Forests in Europe (1998,2002)
Linkage(s) to policy processes, instruments and institutions National Forest Programmes
Keywords Sustainable forest management, criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management, monitoring, reporting, Europe
FOREST EUROPE criteria FOREST EUROPE indicators ToSIA indicators
All All No ToSIA indicators for this Policy instrument