The impact of agriculture, forestry and metal mining on the quality of fine-grained sediment (<63 μm) was investigated in the Quesnel River Basin (QRB) (~11,500 km(2)) in British Columbia, Canada. Samples of fine-grained sediment were collected monthly during the snow-free season in 2008 using time-integrated samplers at replicate sites representative of agriculture, forestry and mining activit...

• Non-linear dynamics modelling description for simulating the behaviour of forestry cranes 2014 • Modeling an industrial flotation process: A case study at the mining company Boliden AB 2012 • Modeling dynamics of an electro-hydraulic servo actuated manipulator: A case study of a forestry forwarder crane 2012 • Underactuated mechanical systems: Contributions to trajectory planning, analysis, a...

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...

Appropriate utilization of forest resources is important for improving rural household livelihoods and conservation in the forest rich areas of developing countries. Using a survey of 1074 rural households in 20 administrative villages in the four southern mountainous townships in Zhouzhi County, Xian, China, we find that there are four forestry-related livelihood activities in our survey site....

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...

Carbon leakage can be a problem when seeking to reduce carbon emissions through forest policy. International market leakage is mainly caused by supply and demand imbalances in the timber market. This paper selects China, which is implementing forestry policy changes, as the research object. We begin by offering a brief analysis of China’s forestry policy changes, such as the logging quota and S...

Carbon sequestration through forestry has the potential to play a significant role in ameliorating global environmental problems such as atmospheric accumulation of GHG's and climate change. This chapter provides an overview of various aspects related to carbon sequestration through forestry. It describes the main concepts of carbon fixation; the trends in global environmental policy are discus...

Extension Forestry has long acted as a medium for landowner education and engagement through a variety of programs that encourage peer learning. We describe recent trends and innovations in Extension Forestry programming by reporting the results of surveys and focus groups with the managers of 39 (of 42 identified) Extension Forestry master volunteer and other peer-learning programs. These prog...

A major problem being faced by human society is that the global temperature is believed to be rising due to human activity that releases carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, i.e., global warming. The major culprit is thought to be fossil fuel burning, which is releasing increasing amounts of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The problem of increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide can be addressed a n...