CONTENTS

FRENCH FOREST
5 EDITORIAL
PIERRE COUVEINHES
7 FOREWORD
A new challenge for the French forest
Michel BARNIER, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries
8 INTRODUCTION
French forests, inventory
Renaud ABORD de CHATILLON


THE LEGAL AND REGULATORY FRAMEWORK: HOW TO MOBILIZE AVAILABLE RESOURCES
11 History of a forest torn between Colbert and liberalism
Jean-Louis GUERIN
19 The private forest, an unknown potential
Michel de GALBERT
24 The communal forest, in the service of sustainable forest management and local development
Jean-Claude MONIN
29 Property rights are there, too, in the forest?
Vincent OTT
35 To mobilize the resources of the French forest
Jean-Marie BALLU


FOREST IN THE WORLD
43 French forests and forest policy in Europe
Ségolène HALLEY des FONTAINES
49 The timber industry in Europe and the world
Daniel GUINARD
56 The forestry to the conquest of the planet, "Mimicking nature, hasten his work"
Marie-Jeanne LIONNET


FOREST: A MAJOR PLAYER AND AN ASSET FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
63 Forest certification, major strategic tool for the implementation of a sustainable management policy
Renaud ABORD de CHÂTILLON et Matthieu LESNE
69 The Charter of the Morvan Forest
Anne-Catherine LOISIER
75 The French forests: a biodiversity rich and threatened
Daniel VALLAURI et Emmanuelle NEYROUMANDE
82 The damage to forests due to storms or droughts: the plagues on the rise
Philippe RIOU-NIVERT
89 To produce more and better preserve the resource: logging companies
Jacques DUCERF
95 The wood energy sector
Jean François BONTOUX
101 Perspectives on "sustainable management" of forests in France
Bernard ROMAN-AMAT
105 Experience delegate forests
Henri PRÉVOT