Not by timber alone: economics and ecology for sustaining tropical forests

Introduction and overview

Tropical forest resources and the timber trade

Natural forest management

Undervaluation of tropical timber

Non-timber forest products: a major component of forest total value

Environmental services: another major component of forest value

The economics of multiple-use management

Silviculture and logging technology for multiple-use management

Plantation forestry

Conservation of genetic resources

Institutional constraints and options: customary rights vs. state ownership

Government policies

International cooperation

An agenda for the future.