ABSTRACT
It is now time to pull together the different pieces in this final chapter of the book.The plan of the five sections is to move gradually towards the formulation of recommendations: which policies, strategies and actions might improve land-use patterns in-and outside our group of study countries, and which are likely to prove blind alleys? First, different background factors and preconditions will be evaluated across the sample to frame the validity of the conclusions. Second, we shall compare the analytical results, including a synthesis of the ten partial links between oil wealth and forests from Chapter 3.We will examine the five primary cases and, where relevant, the secondary cases from Chapter 9.Third, we shall turn to an explicit policy analysis, including some cross-cutting political-economy factors in oil countries. Fourth, conclusions and policy recommendations, from both a forestconservation viewpoint and an economic development perspective, will be outlined. Finally, a section looking beyond mineral wealth, with parallels to related issues (debt relief, structural adjustment, etc.), will close the book.
