the major purpose of this study is to assess the perception of managers in the forest, range and watershedorganization. it is an applied study by using descriptive–correlative method. a questionnaire was developedand data collected from 105 respondents. the validity and reliability of questionnaires was verified. theresults of study show that there was a relationship between educational level, ...

The major purpose of this study is to assess the perception of managers in the Forest, Range and WatershedOrganization. It is an applied study by using descriptive–correlative method. A questionnaire was developedand data collected from 105 respondents. The validity and reliability of questionnaires was verified. Theresults of study show that there was a relationship between educational level, ...

This paper analyzes how sustained yield (SY) forestry is defined and implemented in Sweden and Russia, two countries with different forest-industrial regimes. We first compare definitions of SY forestry in national legislation and policies. Then we study forest management planning in two large forest management units with respect to: delivered forest products and values, how the harvest level o...

Issue For a variety of reasons, community forestry is not always well suited to existing forest certification schemes. Using the case of Nepal, this paper considers the extent to which promoting the trade in non‐ timber forest products can complement, or even provide an alternative to, forest certification for timber while promoting sustainable community forestry. The paper develops recent work...

and Adrian Whiteman of the Forest Policy Service of FAO, together with Herman Savenije and Kees van Dijk . It summarises the experiences and lessons learned from two projects in Latin America. These projects produced assessments of the status, experiences and prospects for financing mechanisms in 19 Latin American countries. A synthesis of these results is available in: Dijk, Kees van, and Herm...

The JMA will foster achieving sustainable development pathways with lower carbon emissions in the forestry sector and ecosystems; which means that joint mitigation and adaptation outcomes to climate change are reached as a result of the support and strengthening of the sustainable management of the forests, and therefore mitigation and adaptation cannot be considered as ends by themselves but m...

Proposing a suitable soil quality index for natural, secondary and rehabilitated tropical forests in Malaysia A. Arifin*, D. S. Karam, J. Shamshuddin, N. M. Majid, O. Radziah, A. H. Hazandy and I. Zahari Department of Forest Production, Faculty of Forestry, Universiti Putra Malaysia, 43400 UPM Serdang, Selangor, Malaysia. Laboratory of Sustainable Bioresource Management, Institute of Tropical F...

This study aims to introduce the potential applicability of traditional ecological knowledge and community forestry in Northeast Asia, including China, Japan, and South Korea. In ancient Northeast Asia, forest policies and practices were based on Fengshui (an old Chinese concept regarding the flow of vital forces), with which forests were managed under community forestry. However, these traditi...

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 ...

The Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention Program is a comprehensive effort to address the long-standing problem of underparticipation of African Americans in forest management. We conducted rapid appraisal baseline research for pilot projects in this program in three Southern states using a carefully selected purposive sample to enhance our understanding of minority landowne...