Scottish Forestry Strategy
The current Scottish Forestry Strategy (SFS) was launched in October 2006 after an extensive review in 2005-06. The strategy included a number of indicators under 6 key themes. The SFS Implementation Plan 2011-14 reports on progress and sets out specific action points for the coming year and following two years. The description of indicators provides background details.
The first edition of the Scottish Forestry Strategy was published in 2000, accompanied by a set of indicators.
FE Scotland key agency targets
Forest Enterprise Scotland key agency targets are provided in the FC Scotland Corporate Plans. They include quantitative targets not covered by the current SFS indicators.
SFGS Indicators
A draft set of indicators for the Scottish Forestry Grant Scheme was published in December 2002. They were mostly output indicators, to show what is directly achieved by the grant scheme, but the set included a few outcome indicators (e.g. ecological condition). Ten output indicators are now used as performance measures in the SFGS management information system.
Indicators of Sustainable Development for Scotland
See the Scottish Executive's webpages on Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development Indicators. Following the publication of Scotland's Sustainable Development Strategy in 2005, a set of 21 indicators was developed in 2006 and is updated annually. The previous set of 24 indicators was first published in 2002 and updated annually until 2005. None of these indicators specifically refer to forestry.
Scotland's Biodiversity Indicators
The Scottish Biodiversity Strategy "It's in Your Hands" was published in May 2004 along with a draft set of draft implementation plans, research strategy and indicators, based on Candidate Indicators of the State of Scotland's Biodiversity first prepared in 2003.
Scotland's biodiversity Indicators, based on the Strategy, were published in October 2007. They include S3 Abundance of Terrestrial Breeding Birds, based on annual Scottish data since 1994, including an index of woodland birds, and S7 Woodland Diversity Indicator as a baseline indicator based on 1995 National Inventory data.
More information is available on the Scottish Natural Heritage website Scotland's Biodiversity Strategy Indicators
