Sustainable forest management:

There is no universal agreement on a definition. However, the Ministerial onference on the Protection of Forests in Europe developed one which has since been adopted by the FAO. Sustainable Forest Management is "the stewardship and use of forests and forest lands in a way and a rate that maintains their biodiversity, productivity, regeneration capacity, vitality and their potential to fulfil, now and in the future [contribution to long-term development], relevant ecological, economic and social functions at local, national and global levels, and that does not cause damage to other ecosystems."

Integrated water resources management:

Or IWRM. It considers water as an integral part of the ecosystem, a natural resource ans a social and economic good, whose quantity and quality determine the nature of its utilisation. It specifically considers the interaction between all components of water resources and water resource users, and is mainly inter-sectoral. Adopting such a plan means regulate water courses taking into account other policies for mountain areas that are related to the management of water resources (land use planning, mountain agriculture and forestry).

Water plays a critical role for both the environment and human life and health, and is deeply interrelated with many fields of the environment (soil, nature and countryside, agriculture, forests, energy). According to this, policies ans plans should take into account pollution and flood management, prevention and control.