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Showing 1 to 18 of 18 for “"sustainable forestry"”.
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Adoption of sustainable forestry practices by Non-Industrial Private Forest owners in Virginia
The concept of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) has been promoted in the past few decades all over the world. Non-industrial private forest (NIPF) owners play an important role in that aspect in the U.S. because of their number (about 16 millions), the size of forest land under their control …
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Horticultural utilization of waste products from sustainable forestry practices in the Pinelands National Reserve
Forestry operations in the Pinelands National Reserve (PNR) produce significant quantities of plant residues, commonly referred to as flailed slash. The residues consist of needles, bark and wood from a variety of pine species that include: pitch pine, Pinus rigida, virginia pine, Pinus virginiana, …
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The Estonian forest sector in transition to sustainability? : Capturing sustainability with the help of integrated assessment
… how forest sector can better contribute to sustainable development in Estonia. The first aim is addressed in a theoretical section that provides an overview and categorization of the existing tools and methods for assessing sustainability. In the case study a transition analysis of the …
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The practice of Islamic environmental ethics: a case study of Harim and Hima
… Ethics is by exploring the concept of Sustainable Development. In the context of this research, sustainable forestry has been chosen to illustrate in more detail the concept of Sustainable Development, which indirectly will represent the practical dimension of Environmental Ethics. The …
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Harvesting Encounter: An Interpretive Research Center at Pack Forest
… focus on the negative impacts of forestry and the built environment focuses on the sustainable qualities of a renewable resource, wood has become divorced from timber. Harvesting Encounter proposes an interpretive research center at the University of Washington's Center for …
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Using climate policies and carbon markets to save tropical forests : the case of Costa Rica
… incentives to Costa Rica to finance its forestry reforms because of political decisions that favor forest protection in developed over developing countries. To be effective, the international climate regime needs to generate a substantial financial investment for avoided deforestation in …
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Economic incentives for the sustainable management and conservation of tropical forests
… community and governments.<br/><br/>Sustainable forestry, therefore, depends on a combination of domestic governance progress to control illegal logging and the rent-seeking powers of vested interest groups, global governance regulations which create markets for environmental …
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Public Ecology: Linking People, Science, and the Environment
… conservation biology, restoration ecology, sustainable forestry, environmental toxicology, and others) produces specialized knowledge that is used to achieve specific social and environmental goals. For example, the peer-reviewed, scientific analyses published in Conservation Biology are …
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Financial Investment Management for Forest Sustainability
… are available to make the forest projects more sustainable. A few relevant questions to ask are: who are the main actors in the implementation of FLR projects; which steps have to be taken; and, which financial options would more suitable and would be feasible to implement. There are three main …
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Canopy transpiration of beech forests in Northern Bavaria – Structure and function in pure and mixed stands with oak at colline and montane sites
… context of climate change, forest conversion and sustainable forestry. Very few investigations to date have quantified the canopy transpiration of mixed forest stands, and particularly of mixed stands of European beech and sessile oak. This study shows results of transpiration on different …
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Soil-plant dynamics of water, nitrogen and sulfur: A study on indigenous and exotic tree species in Munessa Forest, Ethiopia
… the destruction of tropical montane forests. Sustainable forestry requires comprehensive knowledge of tree effects on site conditions and nutrient cycling, but substantial information is lacking even for widely-planted species. In my work, I aimed at identifying such plant effects on ecosystem …
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OPPORTUNITIES AND CONSTRAINTS TO COMMUNITY FORESTS FOR LOCAL INCOME GENERATION AND LIVELIHOOD: A CASE STUDY OF FOUR COMMUNITY FORESTS IN BUMTHANG DISTRICT, BHUTAN
Bhutan has had an active community forestry program since 2000. A key feature of the nationally organized program is the devolution of forest management and use to local residents who participate in a “Community Forestry Management Groups” (CFMG) for managing nearby community forests (CF) according …
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OPPORTUNITIES AND CONSTRAINTS TO COMMUNITY FORESTS FOR LOCAL INCOME GENERATION AND LIVELIHOOD: A CASE STUDY OF FOUR COMMUNITY FORESTS IN BUMTHANG DISTRICT, BHUTAN
Bhutan has had an active community forestry program since 2000. A key feature of the nationally organized program is the devolution of forest management and use to local residents who participate in a “Community Forestry Management Groups” (CFMG) for managing nearby community forests (CF) according …
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The Next Generation of Residential Construction: Adoption of Green Building Programs, Environmentally Certified Wood Products and the Transparency of Environmental Friendliness
… forests. Reacting to the recent push for sustainable forest management, forest certification standards such as the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) allow for third-party audits of forest lands to determine if sustainable forest management and …
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Sustainable management of indigenous forests on private land in New Zealand
… forests on private land in New Zealand. Today, sustainable forest management is the approach to integrate both ecosystem conservation and the production of indigenous timber. The first objective of this dissertation is to study people's understandings and interpretations of what constitutes …
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Mechanisms of nutrient limitation and nutrient acquisition in managed and unmanaged forest ecosystems
<p>Understanding the interactions between global change, human and natural disturbances, and other factors on biogeochemical processes in forests is necessary to ensure the sustainability of forest management. Here I report the results of several investigations into nutrient acquisition processes …