The aim of this research was to measure the relative efficiency of forest management plans in north of Iran. In order to fulfill the research, data of 12 forest management plans were collected from the financial balance sheets of Shafaroud Forest Company during a ten years period. First of all, basic Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models (BCC and CCR) were used to determine the efficiency. The...

An introduction and overview of the Special Issue on Evidence-based Best Practices in the Public Vocational Rehabilitation Program that Lead to Employment Outcomes is provided and briefly discussed.

Assessing areas affected by forest fires requires comprehensive studies covering a wide range of analyzes. From an economic standpoint, assessing the affected area in monetary terms is crucial. Determining the degree of loss in the value of natural resources, both those of a tangible and intangible nature, enables knowing the residual value remaining after a fire, i.e., it enables determining t...

This study aimed at determining the community structure and diversity of soil bacteria in several land-use changes as an environmental bioindicator. research was conducted areas intensive agriculture (PI), monoculture abandoned old-coffee plantation (KTT), mixed-young coffee (HLS), secondary forest/reference site (RS) UB Forest (UBF) area, Malang, Indonesia. Soil samples were taken a composite ...

• Widespread soil erosion occurred in the hilly-gully region of Loess Plateau. Reclamation and deforestation 1950–1970s caused severe erosion. The increased vegetation coverage since 1990s efficiently reduced Restoring forest is more appropriated measure for mitigation. Convex micro-topography mitigate loss sloping fields. Soil strongly threatens sustainability natural ecosystems over world, es...

We describe a method for human parsing that is straightforward and competes with state-of-the-art performance on standard datasets. Unlike the state-of-the-art, our method does not search for individual body parts or poselets. Instead, a regression forest is used to predict a body configuration in body-space. The output of this regression forest is then combined in a novel way. Instead of avera...

this study was done to investigation forest cover changes in the mazandaran province in topographic zones. for doing that in the first matched topographic zones and land-use map. after that distribution of forest cover was investigated in plain, lowland, middle land and high land. forest cover changes analyzed in a period of 132 years since the beginning of the destructive activities in the for...

Abstract Decadal changes in land use/land cover for Balachaur watershed in Nawanshahar district, Punjab, India were studied using black and white aerial photographs for March 1984 on approximately 1:20,000 scale and multidate geocoded false colour composites (FCC) of IRS-1D LISS-III on 1:50,000 scale for March 2002, September 2002, and May 2003 and interpreted visually to prepare land use/land...