Mats Sandewall,^* Bo Ohlsson,^** Silavanh Sawathvong<sup>***


*</sup>Mats Sandewall is a forester and senior research officer based at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences since 1977. He has previous experience as advisor on forest inventory and planning to the Bai Bang Pulp and Paper Mill, Vietnam 1981–1983 and 1986–1987 and the Lao National Forest Inventory 1989–1993. His address: SLU, Department of Forest Resource Management and Geomatics, SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden. Mats.Sandewall@resgeom.slu.se
^**Bo Ohlsson is a sociologist and doctoral candidate at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. He was a lecturer at the University of Malaya 1972/73. He has been visiting professor at the Australian National University 1986. Since 1984, he has worked in Laos and Vietnam on local management of forest land and policy and strategic issues. His address: SLU, Department of Forest Resource Management and Geomatics, SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden. Bo.Ohlsson@resgeom.slu.se
^***Silavanh Sawathvong is a Lao forester, who is doing postgraduate research at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Umeå. Previously deputy director Department of Forestry, National Team Leader TFAP, Director of the National Programme on Shifting Cultivation Stabilisation and a member of the National Committee for Land Management and Forest Land Allocation. He also represents Southeast Asia in the external advisory group to IUCN. His address: Department of Forestry, Vientiane, Lao P.D.R.