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Résumé :
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This Discussion Paper provides a constructive critique of indicators for sustainable forest management and aims to show their value and their limitations. According to the interpretation of the definitions, the way to collect data, and the ecological and economical context, the realities described by these indicators are not homogeneous and comparable at the inter-regional level. By applying the same set of indicators with the same protocols scientifically based in eight Atlantic regions, the authors obtained various results extracted from the regional studies, and demonstrated the variability in the quality of indicators and the limits of their comparability. In this paper, therefore, the aim is to illustrate the diversity of indicators to assess Sustainable Forest Management, the weaknesses of the existing ones and the benefits of new ones that were tested during the FORSEE project.
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