S4.02-00 Forest resource inventory and monitoring

Global resource assessments beyond 2001 (panel session)

Thu, 10 Aug 14:00-16:00, Room: H1

Panel members:

J. P. Lanly, FAO, Italy, T. Sarijanto, Indonesia, J. P. Malingreau, Italy, A. B. Temu, ICRAF, Kenya and T. Krug, INPE, Brazil

Each panelist will have to answer the following questions:
1. What should the scope of future global assessment be? 
   What are the global threats or concerns - environmentally, socially,       
   economically, politically?
   Should future assessments cover forest lands or all lands and why?
2. What information is needed to make better policies and decisions and why? 
   What are the variables needed for different decision-making purposes? 
   What is the spatial resolution required for them?
3. What are the possibilities to actually collect and organize this information?
4. What are your visions for how  the global assessment should be conducted?
   How should the data be collected, who should do it, and how should the 
   data be made available?
   Roles of research and remote sensing community (global change)
   Roles of nations
   Roles of NGOs and others
   Roles of United Nations