Forest certification has been widely adopted by Bolivian stakeholders as a result of a strong combination of policy, training, technical assistance, and economic incentives for responsible forest management. The new Forestry Law of 1996 and associated regulations, the national dependency on foreign exports, and national and international support of forest management and certification together f...

Lately, laser scanning even of huge areas has become economically sensible due to new airborne laser-scanners delivering higher resolutions and measurement frequency. In this paper we will describe a novel approach for single tree delineation based on airborne laser-scanner-data for use in forestry applications. This currently leads into the development a forestry management tool as a part of a...

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...

C Forest Management (CFM) is the youngest forestry program implemented so far, in Nepal. CFM modality in Nepal has been designed focusing on sustainable management of Terai forest. Several policies and strategies formulated and implemented in the past to manage Terai forest resulted unsuccessful. Operation Forest Management Plan (OFMP) and Community Forestry (CF) are the latest example of such ...

Conservation is defined as the management of natural resources in a way that is positive, embracing preservation, maintenance, sustainable utilisation, restoration and enhancement of the natural environment. This broader concept of conservation will only be realised if applied at all levels of social organisation and at all scales across the landscape – real conservation cannot be achieved in s...

Adapting conventional aspatial forest management tools to a geographic information system will require more than merely writing a suitable software interface. There is a conflict between the forest inventory data collected presently and the spatial requirements of a GIS. A similar conflict exists between categorical map data and statistical techniques which utilize continuous dependent variable...

The U.S. National Commission on Science for Sustainable Forestry recognized a need for effective adaptive management to support management for biological diversity. However, difficulties in implementing adaptive management in the U.S. Northwest Forest Plan led the Commission to wonder if comparisons across multiple adaptive management trials in the forest sector could provide insight into the f...