a Department of Forestry and Natural Resource Management, State University of New York, College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry (SUNY-ESF), One Forestry Drive, Illick Hall 340, 13210 Syracuse, NY, USA b Department of Electrical Engineering and Director, Center for Research in Energy and Energy Conservation (CREEC), Faculty of Technology, Makerere University Uganda, P. O. Box 7062, Kampal...

Abstract: Explaining land use change in Mexico requires understanding the behavior of the local institutions involved. We develop two theories to explain deforestation in communities with and without forestry projects, where the former involves a process of side payments to non-members of the community and the latter of partial cooperation among community members. Data collected in 2002 combine...

This paper investigates issues confronting forest management and sustainability, focusing on the governance of community user group (CFUG) initiative in Nepal. The begins with a literature review to give general overview historical current situation It explores impacts unsustainable logging Nepal World Bank Report, which both investigated explored avenues for improving situation, including fore...

The multiplicity of forest products and their uses, and the conflicts it may cause among the stakeholders and various interests makes forestry planning in India to be considerably complex. The particular features of forestry, namely: its long gestation period and investment horizon (often not matching with the social time preference); the difficulty to distinguish between forest capital and inc...

Abstract Successful stand regeneration is one of the keystone elements sustainable forest management. It ensures that ecosystems submitted to stand-replacing disturbances return a forested state so they can maintain provision wood fiber, biodiversity, carbon sequestration, and other ecosystem services. This chapter describes how plantation forestry, including tree breeding, novel tools, such as...

land use planning is a science that determines the type of land use through studying the ecological character of the land as well as its socio-economic structure. it is possible to plan for the appropriate use of the land and to enhance the present management of the land use by utilizing geographical information system (gis). to this end, our investigators identified and took steps toward devel...