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Showing 1 to 20 of 68 for “"Forest resources"”.
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Essays on the Non-market Valuation and Optimal Control of Bio-invasions in Urban Forest Resources
This dissertation consists of three essays, of which, two involve assessing the value of tree cover in urban communities and the other evaluates cooperative management of an invasive species by urban communities. The first chapter summarizes the three topics and briefly describes the motivation, …
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Study of West Virginia wood industry roundwood consumption in 1999
… and soft hardwood species are the preferred forest resources for manufacturing these products. Reduction in available softwood forest resources from the Western states has forced a shift to use of more soft hardwood species in the Northeast. What impact this shift may have on the forest …
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Assessment of Natural Resources Management in Zanzibar:A Case of Forest Resource in North Pemba
… the factors contributing to the mismanagement of forest resources in North Pemba as relating to Zanzibar Environmental Policy. This study was conducted in Micheweni, Kiuyu Maziwang’ombe, Konde and Mapofu wards in Micheweni district and Mchangamdogo, Mtambwe, Kojani and Shenge juu wards from Wete …
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Sustainable livelihoods of forest fringe communities: forests, trees and household livelihood strategies in southern Ghana
Forests play fundamental roles in supporting rural livelihoods in Ghana. They form an integral part of the rural economy, providing subsistence goods and services as well as items of trade. Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) contribute in many ways to improving diets, combating hunger and …
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Spatiotemporal Informatics for Sustainable Forest Production Utilizing Forest Inventory and Remotely Sensed Data
… humans is primordial. As pressures on natural resources grow and become more complex this innate connection drives an increased need for improved data and analytical techniques for assessing the status and trends of forests, trees, their products, and their services. Techniques for using …
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Wetlands Characterization in the Congo River Basin Using Multi-source Remotely Sensed Data and Field Survey
… This map is then combined with vegetation and forest cover change maps published in Potapov et al. (2012) to derive a map including forested wetlands as a thematic class. Using population density data, we investigated whether high terra firma population density and low percent remaining terra …
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An Investigation into Sustainable Forest Policies and Practices in Syria
Appreciation of how forest land can be managed in a sustainable way in arid and semi-arid zones (ASAZs) of centralized countries is limited. Accordingly, this thesis seeks to analyse the role of government and communities, including women, in the formulation and implementation of sustainable forest …
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State Forest Management, Society and Environment in Eastern Highlands, Zimbabwe, c.1890-2023
This thesis reconstructs the history of state forest management in the plantation-rich Eastern Highlands of Zimbabwe from 1890, when the country was colonised, to 2023, when the government adopted a new forestry policy. It examines how shifting political and economic policies have shaped state …
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Forests and Farming: An analysis of rural livelihood programs for poverty reduction in eastern Zambia
… paper investigates the effectiveness of Joint Forest Management (JFM) and agricultural programs at reducing rural poverty in Zambia. Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) programs in Africa have been aimed at improving livelihoods, creating tangible benefits, and increasing …
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Forests and Farming: An analysis of rural livelihood programs for poverty reduction in eastern Zambia
… paper investigates the effectiveness of Joint Forest Management (JFM) and agricultural programs at reducing rural poverty in Zambia. Community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) programs in Africa have been aimed at improving livelihoods, creating tangible benefits, and increasing …
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Economic analysis of participatory forest management in Kenya
… top down approach to management of common pool resources such as forests led policy makers and donors to conclude that devolution of forest management to local communities can be the only solution to such failures. Developing countries have thus resorted to devolution of forest management to …
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Roots of empire: State formation and the politics of timber access.
… of territorialization to control access to forest resources for naval shipbuilding, affecting state and local relations, the politics of resource accessibility, and forest management practices all over Spain. This dissertation analyzes this process over the course of two centuries, explores …
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Smallholder Fire Prevention and Burning Activities Under the Threat of Accidental Fire: A Household Model Application from the Tapajós National Forest in the State of Pará, Brazil
… to large scale wildfires that threaten mature forests, agricultural plantations, and settlement areas. Our purpose is to examine labor devoted to fire prevention (firebreak establishment) and burning for crop production for subsistence smallholders in the Tapajós National Forest in Pará, …
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A Political Ecology of Oil Palm in the Peruvian Amazon
… also as keepers of diverse cropping systems and forest resources. As such, environmentalist and developmentalist discourses either over-simplify, or ignore smallholder oil palm development. Using ethnographic methods, this study examines the social and environmental perceptions of smallholders, …
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The potential for trickle up : how local actors' experiments influence national forest policy planning
The loss of forests in Vietnam encouraged central government policy makers to consider new ways to manage forest resources. A major forest policy shift -- moving away from state-led management -- began in earnest in pilot provinces in 1998, with the handing over of forest land and management …
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Rehabilitation and sustainable use of degraded community forests in the Bale Mountains of Ethiopia
… is closely linked to the utilisation of natural resources, particularly forests. However, the exclusion of local people from decisions relating to the use and management of the forests has resulted in a situation whereby they utilise the forest resources illegally and feel no responsibility for …
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‘Betek, Tali ngan Atap’ ‘Knots, String and Blades’: Production and Use of Organic Utility Objects by the Orang Ulu of Sarawak
… in the north-east of the State in highland rainforest areas and are both swidden farmers and hunter-gatherers. Many of the utility objects they use are manufactured locally from forest resources. As communications in the area have improved, new materials and technology have arrived and are …
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Wood Magic Program: A Distance Education Perspective
… the use and sustainability of America's forest resources. Elementary school students receive only a general foundation in the area of wood science and many elementary school resources have shown to be inadequate. Virginia Tech and a few other universities have adopted Wood Magic …
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No More Shade: Deforestation and Rural-Urban Migration in Nigeria
… and cultural conflicts. However, as the deforestation crisis has not improved and Nigeria has maintained its spot as the country with the most deforestation on Earth, access to critical forest resources may be in danger. In light of this crisis, this paper attempts to determine if …
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