Electronic-nose (e-nose) instruments, derived from numerous types of aroma-sensor technologies, have been developed for a diversity of applications in the broad fields of agriculture and forestry. Recent advances in e-nose technologies within the plant sciences, including improvements in gas-sensor designs, innovations in data analysis and pattern-recognition algorithms, and progress in materi...

The study identified the community strategies for conservation and preservation of forest resources in Nsukka agricultural zone of Nigeria. Nsukka agricultural zone is one of the three agricultural zones in Enugu state and is made up of six Local Government Areas (LGAs). A purposive sampling technique was used to select 48 respondents from two LGAs Nsukka and Uzo-Uwani based on their involvemen...

Over the past two decades forestry in the United States has diverged into two approaches with quite different objectives and scientific priorities. The management focus of most industrial lands is on increasing productivity of wood fiber via plantations and various cultural tools, especially genetic selection, fertilization, and control of noncrop vegetation. Federal forest management has shift...

A multiple of stakeholder goals, regarding natural resource utilisation, are integrated into an overall provincial strategic forest and fisheries utilisation decision support system providing a platform for defining tactical forest planning objectives within a 10-year planning horizon. The case study area is a 5362 ha mangrove forest enterprise, divided into a buffer zone and a full protection ...

Forest and forest product certification systems have grown rapidly in recent years, developing in parallel with the many international, national, and regional initiatives attempting to define and promote sustainable forest management (SF M ) (C arbarle et al. 1995, L awes et al. 1999). T he area certified under the most widely adopted international system, the Forest Stewardship C ouncil, is no...

This case study provides an overview of the process and effects of forest certification in Estonia. The discussion regarding forest certification was initiated in Estonia in the mid-1990s as environmental NGOs started to highlight the potential benefits of certification. The issue was discussed further in the working groups of the National Forest Development Program, bringing it to the attentio...

a Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, P.O. Box 5003, NO-1432 Ås, Norway b School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Yale University, 360 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06511-2189, USA c Biospheric Sciences Branch, Code 614.4, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA d Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedis...