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The aim of Sustainable Forest Management and Eucalyptus is to inform society of the reality of a tree which is often criticised but about which little is actually known in terms of its extraordinary function and characteristics, aspects which make it a unique resource in terms of generating wealth and environmental benefits. Through mass fixing of carbon and the corresponding oxygen production, eucalyptus plantations create the renewable raw material which is used to produce pulp and energy: cultivated wood and the forest residue, which also have many other industrial and consumer-related applications. Above all, however, eucalyptus is a tree with a great environmental value: efficient in the use of water, its sustainable growth is conducive to biodiversity, reduces the risk of forest fires, provides new natural spaces, recovers degraded or unusable soils and enriches the landscape. All of which is, of course, hugely beneficial to the environment and to society. This well-managed asset becomes a driver of economic and social development, and also provides us with one of the best options for curbing the deforestation of natural woodland. Sustainable forest management thus becomes an appropriate means of extracting the potential wealth and prosperity offered by cultivated woodland, while also providing us with an efficient means of fighting climate change. Sustainable Forest Management and Eucalyptus follows the work ENCE: Creating jobs and wealth, which provides a summary of the social and economic value of woodland and the Group’s production of pulp and renewable energy in 2008 in Spain: 6,150 direct and indirect jobs and 5,070 induced jobs, in addition to 630 million euros in industrial and forest purchases and investments, and 361 million in tax, Social Security contributions and salaries. This new work focuses mainly on eucalyptus and the environmental and industrial benefits arising from sustainable forest management. Its content is based on the compiling of independent reports and studies prepared by prestigious scientists in research centres worldwide, whose results are guaranteed, and whose most important conclusions are gathered and presented here in a didactic and summarised form.