A Framework for Successful Policy Formulation and Implementation

Abstract

The previous Chapters have shown that there is enormous variation between countries in the condition of their forests and in the importance attached to forest resources and how they should be managed. Most countries now have a policy for forestry, but these also vary considerably from being fairly general statements of principle to quite specific prescriptions, with priorities and targets. It is also clear that the existence of a policy is no guarantee that the aims of the policy will be realised in practice and many examples have been given which show that the existence of an evidently good policy is no guarantee that it is implemented.