However, in 1988 the National Forest Policy heralded a significant shift in forest policy by acknowledging the needs and interests of local communities concerning their utilization of forest resources, and involving them in the protection and regeneration of forests. However, deforestation and violation of local community interests continued, due to the conflict between conserving endangered na...

OF THESIS The preface and introduction, describe the method of study and discuss the general scope and outline of the thesis. The objective of the thesis is to provide a comparison of forest policy and forest management practices in Scotland and British Columbia. The first part of the thesis aims at providing a background to the comparison by recounting, in summarised form, the forest histories...

This paper deals with optimal forest rotation age and silvicultural investment under policy or regulatory uncertainty to which wasteful deforestation and lack of reforestation and afforestation efforts in the developing countries and loss of old growth forests and biodiversity in the developed countries are attributed. Incorporating a stochastic uncertainty factor into the familiar deterministi...

w f a Paul W. Adams, Extension forest watershed specialist; and Anne B. Hairston, graduate student in forest hydrology; Oregon State University. olicy making usually is more art than science, creating policies from a shifting palette of social, political, legal, conomic, and environmental concerns. However, policy ecisions increasingly involve scientific or technical issues. echnology has grown...

Threats associated with climate change may damage forests. To encourage adaptation in countries with a lot of privately owned forest, policy measures directed at private forest owners may be implemented. By means of policy scenarios, the present study examined the effects of two hypothetical policies: an advice and an economic incentive, on climate change adaptation among private forest owners ...

India’s Joint Forest Management (JFM) policy, in which government forest agencies and local communities jointly manage forests, has been touted as a successful strategy in helping both forests and people. Its efficacy in the field, however, is uneven. Although government forest departments are charged with implementing JFM, very little is known about their perspectives on this policy. Assessmen...

A scenario-based approach to the impacts of land use and climate change can help in identifying future policy directions. This study models the impacts of different land use and climate change scenarios on the forest ecosystems of South Korea to identify national-scale forest policy options. Climatically suitable forest areas for 1,031 climate vulnerable plant species were identified for curren...