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| | | Article Name : | | | Forest Enterprises in Pakistan: Past to Future
| | Author Name : | | | MUHAMMAD ZADA, CAO YUKUN1 | | Publisher : | | | Bridge Center | | Article URL : |  | | | Abstract : | | | The dominant economic theme in human?forest relationships
over the past two millennia, but especially during the last two
centuries, has been one of value abstraction and increasingly intensive
management. Humans have depended on forests for a remarkable
variety of enterprise products, services, and benefits. With rapid
economic growth and technological changes, they have refined and
added to the values forests make available. Pakistan suffers far more
severe forest scarcities than most countries. Its natural forest asset is
very small - covering less than five per cent of the total land area.
Forest or woodland area per person is one of the world’s lowest, at onethirtieth of a hectare - and most forests are slow-growing. Yet
Pakistan’s demands on forests are high and getting higher: population
is growing at 3 per cent per year, and industrial growth at about 6 per
cent demands more and more construction wood, fuel wood, and water
from forested watersheds. Pakistan’s government now recognizes that
there is a broad group of people who are affected by, and who have the
power to influence, forestry decisions. The term stakeholder has
recently become widely used. But policies to encourage responsible
stakeholder forestry in natural forests are not well formulated, and are
not integrated with policies for farm forestry and timber imports. This
paper is a contribution to the Forestry Outlook for Pakistan. The
expectation is that this would be used extensively in all areas of policy
and strategic planning for forestry including development of the
Pakistan Forestry Vision 2030, review and formulation of national,
provincial and other sectoral policies, and legal and institutional frameworks of forestry. This paper will also help in prioritization for
investment planning through development and implementation of
forestry programmes and projects. | | Keywords : | | | Pakistan, forest, investment planning, economic
development |
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