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Created: Feb 22, 2008
Updated: Oct 19, 2009
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National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry NCSSF
(a.k.a.: National Council for Science and the Environment)
( Non Governmental Organization )
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The National Commmission on Science for Sustainable Forestry (NCSSF) has the mission of improving the scientific basis for the development, implementation and evaluation of sustainable forestry practices in the United States.
The Commission is conducting a program to build a better scientific underpinning for assessing and improving sustainable forest management practices. The program strives to produce information and tools that are both of the highest technical quality and greatest relevancy to the urgent needs of policymakers, forest managers and practitioners. The NCSSF program includes syntheses and surveys, research and assessments, tool development, and communicaton and outreach activities.
The initial five-year phase of NCSSF’s program focuses on the relationships between biodiversity and forest management practices (Criteria 1 of the Montreal process). The program scope includes addressing the information needs for managed forest-lands, industrial and non-industrial, in the continental United States.
NCSSF Approach
The NCSSF program is results oriented and science based to provide practical information and approaches that serve the needs of policymakers, forest managers and practitioners. The program emphasis is on developing the knowledge and tools most directly relevant to improving sustainable forestry practices over the next five to ten years.
The advancement of sustainable forestry and biodiversity conservation are limited by:
1. crucial gaps in the scientific understanding
2. insufficient transformation of research results into usable information
3. lack of tools to measure and evaluate progress; and
4. inadequate communication between researchers and practitioners.
The Commission is conducting a program to build a better scientific underpinning for assessing and improving sustainable forest management practices. The program strives to produce information and tools that are both of the highest technical quality and greatest relevancy to the urgent needs of policymakers, forest managers and practitioners. The NCSSF program includes syntheses and surveys, research and assessments, tool development, and communicaton and outreach activities.
The initial five-year phase of NCSSF’s program focuses on the relationships between biodiversity and forest management practices (Criteria 1 of the Montreal process). The program scope includes addressing the information needs for managed forest-lands, industrial and non-industrial, in the continental United States.
NCSSF Approach
The NCSSF program is results oriented and science based to provide practical information and approaches that serve the needs of policymakers, forest managers and practitioners. The program emphasis is on developing the knowledge and tools most directly relevant to improving sustainable forestry practices over the next five to ten years.
The advancement of sustainable forestry and biodiversity conservation are limited by:
1. crucial gaps in the scientific understanding
2. insufficient transformation of research results into usable information
3. lack of tools to measure and evaluate progress; and
4. inadequate communication between researchers and practitioners.