Forest-Fire-Related Environmental Issues in Indonesia

Trade and Environmental Issues in Forest Production

Trade policy influences the environment directly and indirectly, while environmental policies have an impact on competitiveness. In the past, trade's potential role to contribute to sustainable forest management has been largely unexplored. This paper is aimed at assessing the possible impacts of various policy instruments on trade and the environment. Although the Latin American and the Caribb...

Social and Environmental Impacts of Forest Management Certification in Indonesia

In response to unsustainable timber production in tropical forest concessions, voluntary forest management certification programs such as the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) have been introduced to improve environmental, social, and economic performance over existing management practices. However, despite the proliferation of forest certification over the past two decades, few studies have eva...

Optimal Forest Rotations with Environmental Values and Endogenous Fire Risk

Estimating fire-related parameters in boreal forest using SPOT VEGETATION

The majority of burning in the boreal forest zone consists of stand replacement fires larger than 10 km occurring in remote, sparsely populated regions. Satellite remote sensing using coarse resolution (c 1 km) sensors is thus well suited in documenting the spatial and temporal distribution of fires in this zone. The purpose of this study was to investigate the utility of the SPOT VEGETATION (V...

A Spatio-Temporal Analysis on the forest Fire Occurrence in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia

Fire is a disaster that causes adverse effects to forests, ecosystems and human life in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Enhancing technologies that monitor fires could reduce the occurrence of these disasters. In order to develop a robust fire monitoring system, a deep understanding of fire behaviour is needed. This study focuses on the investigation of spatial and temporal factors influencing f...