Turkey : Forestry Sector Review

Turkey : Forestry Sector Review

The report identifies the challenges, and opportunities the forestry sector faces in Turkey, where twenty five percent of the country's land area is covered by forests, with significant economic, environmental, and cultural functions. The chal...

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Main Author:	World Bank
Format:	Public Expenditure Review
Language:	English en_US
Published:	Washington, DC 2013
Subjects:	AFFORESTATION AGRICULTURAL LANDS AGRICULTURAL POLICY AGRICULTURE ANIMAL SPECIES BIODIVERSITY BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION CARBON CONSERVATION OF BIODIVERSITY DEGRADED FOREST DEGRADED FOREST LANDS DEGRADED LAND DEGRADED LANDS DIVISION OF LABOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC GROWTH ECONOMIC VALUE EMPLOYMENT ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT ENVIRONMENTAL PROBLEMS ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES EROSION EROSION CONTROL EXPENDITURES EXPLOITATION EXTENSION EXTENSION SERVICES FARMERS FIREWOOD FODDER FOREST FOREST AREAS FOREST COMMUNITIES FOREST DEVELOPMENT FOREST ECOSYSTEMS FOREST ENTERPRISES FOREST INDUSTRY FOREST INVENTORIES FOREST LAND FOREST LANDS FOREST MANAGEMENT FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANNING FOREST MANAGEMENT PLANS FOREST MANAGEMENT UNITS FOREST OPERATIONS FOREST ORGANIZATIONS FOREST PLANNING FOREST POLICY FOREST PRODUCT FOREST PRODUCTS FOREST PROTECTION FOREST REGIME FOREST REGIONS FOREST RESOURCE FOREST RESOURCE MANAGEMENT FOREST RESOURCES FOREST SECTOR FOREST SERVICES FOREST VILLAGE FOREST VILLAGE COMMUNITIES FOREST VILLAGERS FOREST VILLAGES FORESTRY FORESTRY ACTIVITIES FORESTRY AGENCIES FORESTRY AGENCY FORESTRY DEVELOPMENT FORESTRY OPERATIONS FORESTRY PROGRAMS FORESTRY SECTOR FORESTRY SECTOR REVIEW FORESTS HUNTING INCOME INCOME DISTRIBUTION INCOMES LABOR COSTS LAND ALLOCATION LAND TENURE LEGISLATION LIVELIHOODS LIVESTOCK LOGS NATURAL RESOURCE NATURAL RESOURCE DEGRADATION NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT NATURAL RESOURCES NGOS PAPER INDUSTRY PLANTING POVERTY ALLEVIATION PRIVATE SECTOR PULP PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY RECLAMATION REFORESTATION REGENERATION RESERVES RESOURCE CONSERVATION ROUNDWOOD RURAL DEVELOPMENT SOIL CONSERVATION SOIL EROSION STATE FOREST STREAMS SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF FOREST SUSTAINABLE RESOURCE USE TAXATION TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE TIMBER TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS TIMBER PRODUCTION TIMBER SALES TIMBER SPECIES TREES WATER RESOURCES WATERSHED WATERSHED MANAGEMENT WATERSHED PROTECTION WILDLIFE WILDLIFE RESOURCES WILLINGNESS TO PAY WOOD WOOD FOREST PRODUCTS WOOD PRODUCTION WOOD PRODUCTS WOOD SALES FORESTRY SECTOR POVERTY REDUCTION INSTITUTIONAL FRAMEWORK CAPACITY BUILDING PARTICIPATORY FORESTRY FOREST DEGRADATION FORESTRY INDUSTRY FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT DEMAND-DRIVEN POLICY FRAMEWORK REFORM POLICY STATE-OWNED ENTERPRISES PUBLIC EXPENDITURES TIMBER EXTRACTION PROTECTED AREAS NATIONAL PARKS ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION CONSENSUS APPROACH INTEGRATED REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT TARGETED ASSISTANCE PROGRAM MANAGEMENT REGULATORY FRAMEWORK BUDGETARY PROCESS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2001/06/1561376/turkey-forestry-sector-review http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15495

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Summary:	The report identifies the challenges, and opportunities the forestry sector faces in Turkey, where twenty five percent of the country's land area is covered by forests, with significant economic, environmental, and cultural functions. The challenges identified in the review include poverty, land tenure, the need to establish multi-purpose, participatory forest management planning, and, to control soil erosion in degraded areas, including the need to restore the sector's financial viability. Following an introductory review on economic growth, urbanization, and new demands on forest resources, the study analyzes the liberalization of the policy framework, the reform of state-owned enterprises, and the public expenditure restraints. The sustained realization of forestry development goals in the context of strengthened economic discipline, should lead to the planning, and management of forest resources at both the national, and local levels; to a decrease in forest areas managed primarily for wood production; to an expansion of protected areas, and national parks, covering a wide range of Turkey's natural ecosystems; and, to reforestation levels rising significantly the degraded forest lands, supported by active communal participation. This will be achieved based on suggestions on policies, and institutional arrangements, and on consensus development on sectoral priorities. Recommendations suggest pilot approaches to biodiversity conservation; reconsideration of public sector agencies' organizational structures; integrated rural development initiatives to support poverty alleviation, including institutional target programs for the poorest forest-dependent people; and, development of community based resource management approaches, mainstreamed through supportive regulations, guidelines, and budgetary processes.