With the international community’s increasing concern for social and environmental problems, the fulfilment and disclosure of corporate social responsibility (CSR) has been advocated and promoted across the world. Forestry companies, which are particularly sensitive to environmental and social issues, are increasingly developing and improving their levels of CSR disclosure. However, information...

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1 Natural Resource Policy Advisor, US Department of Agriculture/US Agency for International Development, 1325 G street NW, Washington, DC 20005, U.S.A. 2 Class of 1946 Visiting Professor of International Environmental Studies, Center for Environmental Studies, Williams College, Kellogg House, P.O. Box 632, Williamstown, MA 01267, U.S.A. 3 Research School of Environmental Studies, Charles Darwin...

We examined the risk factors for heatstroke among forestry workers in Japan during the summer. We distributed a questionnaire to 124 forestry workers to determine heatstroke symptoms, degree of sweating and hydration, as well as perceived hotness and amount of sunlight at work sites. Forty of the workers (32.3%) reported experiencing heatstroke symptoms. Thirteen and 21 of them reported such sy...

Forest resource is the material basis of forestry production and forestry sustainable development. Nowadays the concept of “Digital Forestry” is put forward and 3S technology is used in forestry. Therefore the embedded system of forest resource information acquisition has been designed which integrated embedded technology with GIS, 3G wireless communication technology and GPS. After analyzing t...

Sustainable forest management requires new tools to analyze spatial and temporal forest dynamics and to examine those forest parameters that are related to sustainability. We built a prototype system for data analysis and decision-making at forest enterprise level by integrating a forest ecosystem model EFIMOD-PRO (long-term prediction of forest growth and soil development) with an interactive ...