ABSTRACT
For many reasons, forests in developing countries have been poorly managed for many decades. As a consequence, deforestation and forest degradation have been widespread. This has been at a cost to a variety of ecosystems, the services these ecosystems provide to humans and the associated use values. These losses have affected both poor and rich people, but the poor depend much more heavily on forest resources for their livelihoods. Moreover, as forests become viewed more and more as global public goods that can protect biodiversity and sequester carbon, thus mitigating climate change, the loss of forests in developing countries has become a concern for rich and poor countries alike.
