1: The importance for forestry of changes in the socio-economic environment, J L Innes and H F Hoen 2: The emerging role of forest quality in setting perspectives in forest management, N Dudley, Equilibrium Consultants, UK 3: Making value compromises in an efficient economy: efficiency as value dialogue, M Farmer, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, and A Randall, Ohio State University, USA 4: An intergenerational perspective on effects of environmental changes: Discounting the future's viewpoint, C Price, University of Wales, UK 5: Deforestation processes in temperate and tropical forests - an economic perspective, O Hofstad, Agricultural University of Norway, Norway 6: The application of forest zoning as an alternative to multiple use forestry, C R Nitschke, University of British Columbia, Canada, and J L Innes 7: Capital management - the forests in countries in transition - welfare impacts, P Csoka, Ministry of Agriculture and Regional Development, Hungary 8: Certification of forest management and wood products, J L Innes and G M Hickey 9: How will new large-scale nature reserves in temperate and boreal forests affect the global structural wood products sector? J M Perez-Garcia, University of Washington, USA 10: The establishment of large-scale reserves in temperate and boreal forests: some experiences of the US and prospects for Finland, R A Sedjo, Resources for the Future, Washington, USA 11: The new planning approach and criteria used for sustainable forest management in Turkey, UE Asan, University of Istanbul, Turkey 12: Application of criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management to a GIS-based multiple criteria decision making approach for forest conservation planning in the Kinabalu Region, Sabah, Malaysia, M H Phua and M Minowa, University of Tokyo, Japan 13: Social revolutions in forest management, J Romm, University of California, USA 14: Recent developments in decision analysis for forest management, G A Mendoza, University of Illinois, USA