Pakistan has only a meagre amount of forest cover, and that is depleting rapidly, with ineffective governance seen as a major reason. The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the country’s most forested province, has carried out a series of interventions with financial and technical support from various international donors. These aim to change how forests are governed, making planning and managem...

More than one-third of forested land in the United States is owned by individuals or families, making these lands a significant source of the nation’s forest resources and services. Yet investments in traditional expert-led outreach efforts, including financial incentive programs and technical assistance for management plan development, have failed to engage the vast majority of U.S. forest lan...

A forest management plan is a document that guides of formally managed forest. The general description component plan, which describes the target and focal landscape in socioeconomic ecological terms. This paper gives as part for implementation pilot REDD+ project Masito Community Forest Reserve, Kigoma, Tanzania 2012-2017. methodology used to obtain data information was literature review. give...

Monitoring is all the rage. It is considered an essential step in adaptive management and almost every meeting of a scientific society includes a session on monitoring. Monitoring is a requisite of each National Forest Land Management Plan and can be a condition for acceptance of a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP), as specified under the Endangered Species Act. Despite government mandates, incre...

Santiago, Chile has the distinction of having among the worst urban air pollution problems in Latin America. As part of an atmospheric pollution reduction plan, the Santiago Regional Metropolitan government defined an environmental policy goal of using urban forests to remove particulate matter less than 10 microm (PM(10)) in the Gran Santiago area. We used cost effectiveness, or the process of...

In Southern European countries wildfires are the most natural threat to forests and wooded areas. Over the last decade, public and scientific debates on forest fire management have increased. Helicopters and airtankers are extremely effective fire suppression means, but they are also very expensive. Studies on the improved performance of suppression for the enhancement of firefighting organizat...

six catchment areas of fars, where belong to bioclimatic zone of deciduous temperate forests of palearctic realm, first were . surveyed, and mapped (scale:1: 100,000). then, after ecological and socio economic data analysis and integration, the ecosystem map (mapping unit) of the area was depicted (makhdoum 1992). the ecological capability of catchment areas for agriculture, range management, f...

the aim of this research was to evaluate and select of appropriate indicators for different zones of baghe shadi region where it have six different zones (restricted zone, protected zone, restored zone, inhibition zone, recreational zone and other uses zone). to do so, first top-down approach and likert scale questionnaire was used for voting from 32 experts. after that using influence matrix, ...