The Great Restoration:
The Potentials for Forest Protection to 2050

Purpose: To examine the potential for concentrating production of forest products into a small area of the world's forests, leaving the rest for other purposes such as preservation of biodiversity, carbon sequestration and protection of water catchments.

Site contents: (updated 7 November 2000)

• Foreign Affairs magazine publishes a summary of the Great Restoration project. See "Restoring the Forests" , David G. Victor and Jesse H. Ausubel, Foreign Affairs 79(6): 127-144, 2000.
• Project Overview
• Planning Meeting, 17 June 1999
• Discussion Paper
• Group Meeting Digest
• Overview of Phase I Research, 11 Nov. 1999
• Project Meeting, 20-21 January 2000, Washington D.C.

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• How much will feeding more and wealthier people encroach on forests?
  Paul Waggoner and Jesse Ausubel.
• Long-Term Changes in the Location and Structure of Forest Industries
  Michael Bazett.
• Indigenous Peoples and the new 'Global Vision' on Forests: Implications and Prospects
  Marcus Colchester.
• The Role of Forest Protected Areas in the Landsacpe
  Nigel Dudley, Adrian Phillips, and Sue Stolton.
• What Roles Can International Law and Institutions Play in Restoring the World Forests?
  David G. Victor.
• Industrial Roundwood Demand Projections 20 2050: A Brief Review of the Literature
  Rebecca U. Weiner and David G. Victor.
• Macro Trends in Fibre Supply
  Gary Bull.
• Forest Cover Trends and Inventories
  Pekka Kauppi, Jari Liski, and Ranga Myneni.
• The Vision (New Pie Charts).
  MS Word Document

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For more information, contact:

David G. Victor
Robert W. Johnson, Jr., Fellow in Science and Technology
Council on Foreign Relations
58 East 68th Street, New York, NY 10021

Other sites, articles of interest:

• "Searching for Leverage to Conserve Forests: The Industrial Ecology of Wood Products in the U.S."
  Iddo K. Wernick, Paul E. Waggoner, and Jesse H. Ausubel
  Journal of Industrial Ecology 1(3):125-145 (1997).
• "Temperate Forests Gain Ground"
  Anne Simon Moffat
  Science Volume 282, Number 5392 Issue of 13 Nov 1998
• "Kyoto Shell Game"
  David G. Victor
  Op-Ed, The Washington Post Friday, November 20, 1998; Page A29.
• "Lightening the Tread of Population on the Land: American Examples"
  Paul E. Waggoner, Jesse H. Ausubel, Iddo K. Wernick
  Population and Development Review 22(3):531-545 (September 1996)
  
• "Strategies for cutting carbon"
  David G. Victor
  Nature October 29, 1998
• "The Environment Since 1970"
  Jesse H. Ausubel, David G. Victor, Iddo K. Wernick
  Consequences 1(3):2-15, 1995.
• "The Liberation of the Environment"
  Jesse H. Ausubel, in Technological Trajectories and the Human Environment
  J.H. Ausubel and H.D. Langford, eds., National Academy, Washington DC, 1997, pp. 1-13.
• World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development
• Nilsson et al.: How Sustainable are North American Wood Supplies?
• Global Observation of Forest Cover (GOFC) study

Affiliates:

The Council on Foreign Relations

The World Bank / WWF Forest Alliance

World Resources Institute

The Program for the Human Environment, The Rockefeller University