scholarly journals Theorizing the Implications of Gender Order for Sustainable Forest Management

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeji Varghese ◽  
Maureen G. Reed
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Theoretical Discussion ◽  
Participation Of Women ◽  
The Social ◽  
Management Issues

Sustainable forest management is intended to draw attention to social, economic, and ecological dimensions. The social dimension, in particular, is intended to advance the effectiveness of institutions in accurately reflecting social values. Research demonstrates that while women bring distinctive interests and values to forest management issues, their nominal and effective participation is restricted by a gender order that marginalizes their interests and potential contributions. The purpose of this paper is to explain how gender order affects the attainment of sustainable forest management. We develop a theoretical discussion to explain how women's involvement in three different models for engagement—expert-based, stakeholder-based, and civic engagement—might be advanced or constrained. By conducting a meta-analysis of previous research conducted in Canada and internationally, we show how, in all three models, both nominal and effective participation of women is constrained by several factors including rules of entry, divisions of labour, social norms and perceptions and rules of practice, personal endowments and attributes, as well as organizational cultures. Regardless of the model for engagement, these factors are part of a masculine gender order that prevails in forestry and restricts opportunities for inclusive and sustainable forest management.

Quantifying the research impact of the Sustainable Forest Management Network in the social sciences: a bibliometric study

2010 ◽  
Vol 40 (11) ◽  
pp. 2248-2255 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicole L. Klenk ◽  
Anna Dabros ◽  
Gordon M. Hickey
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Research Output ◽  
Research Impact ◽  
Funded Research ◽  
Principal Investigators ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Standards ◽  
The Impact

This research note presents the results of a bibliometric analysis that was conducted to better understand the impact that Sustainable Forest Management Network (SFMN) funded research had in the forest-related social and Aboriginal research communities. We applied two indicators of research impact: (i) research outputs and (ii) citations. Our results suggest that the SFMN’s research outputs were highest in the fields of economics, sociology, and political science and law. The number of research articles that acknowledged the SFMN was 30% of the total research output of the SFMN-funded Principal Investigators. These articles represented 3% of the social science articles published in the Forestry Chronicle (the journal most frequently used by SFMN-funded Principal Investigators). Research output related to Aboriginal forestry indicated that the SFMN had a significant influence on the development of the field. Our citation analysis indicated that the average number of citations per SFMN-acknowledged publication in the social sciences was approximately the same as the international impact standard in the field. These results suggest that the SFMN-funded research in the social sciences compared very well with the international research standards in forest-related social sciences.

Using Social Quality as a Framework for Analyzing Social Development in Taiwan

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Lih-Rong Lillian Wang ◽  
Yun-Tung Wang ◽  
Peishan Yung
Keyword(s):  
Data Collection ◽  
Social Development ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Social Quality ◽  
The Social ◽  
Quality Framework ◽  
Social Empowerment

This study applies social quality framework to analyze the current social development of Taiwan by utilizing governmental database as secondary dataset and using meta-analysis as further check in data collection. This study found that the social development of current Taiwan society basically keeps progressing along with requirements and indicators of social quality. Among them, Taiwan’s performance of social development in dimension of social economic security goes best. And in social inclusion and social empowerment dimensions, the indicators obviously show much progressive. However, the biggest room for further improvement and development is in social cohesion.

Analysis of the relationship among stakeholders affected by sustainable forest management and forest certification

1999 ◽  
Vol 75 (6) ◽  
pp. 961-965 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc-André Côté ◽  
Luc Bouthillier
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Forest Sector ◽  
Forest Certification ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Forest Practices ◽  
Long Time ◽  
The Relationship

Supporters of sustainable forest management and forest certification are seeking to improve worldwide forest practices. Groups involved in the forest sector will have to adapt themselves to respect new environmental regulations, standards, and agreements linked to these two new concepts. Some forest stakeholders will lose several of their long-time privileges under the pressure of new actors involved in sustainable forest management. Forest managers will have to consider more social values in their planning than they used before. Sustainable forest management and forest certification thus have the potential to resolve, through public participation processes, old conflicts between stakeholders involved in forest management. However, these same processes could be the source of new conflicts. This article analyzes the ways in which relationships between forest stakeholders could be affected by new sustainable forest management rules. Key words: sustainable forest management, certification, forest stakeholder, public participation

Les Québécois perçoivent-ils le français montréalais comme une variete topolectale distincte ? Résultats d’une analyse perceptuelle exploratoire

2014 ◽  
Vol 59 (1) ◽  
pp. 109-135 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wim Remysen
Keyword(s):  
Social Economic ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Linguistic Features ◽  
Identification Task ◽  
Cultural Center ◽  
Nasal Vowels ◽  
Perceptual Test ◽  
The Social ◽  
Quebec French ◽  
Over Time

AbstractGiven its status as the social, economic, and cultural center of Quebec, the metropolitan area of Montreal plays a rather important role with respect to the sociolinguistic dynamics of the province as a whole. For instance, certain changes that have affected Quebec French over time are believed to have appeared in Montreal before having spread to other regions of the province. Such a scenario entails that Quebeckers perceive certain linguistic features as being part of Montreal French — sometimes without even being aware of it — and that these dialect markers take on social values that are prone to their further diffusion. This article aims to look further into this hypothesis by presenting the results of an exploratory dialect identification task. The perceptual test is part of a research program whose scope is to study the distribution of nasal vowels in Montreal French in general and that of the nasal vowel /ã/ in particular.

scholarly journals Identification of students' expectations regarding higher education in the new social context: a meta-analytic study

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 222-245
Author(s):  
Cristine Do C.S. B. de Moraes ◽  
Maria Imaculada De Lima Montebelo ◽  
Rosana Borges Zaccaria ◽  
Graziela Oste Graziano Cremonezi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Meta Analysis ◽  
Marketing Strategies ◽  
Review System ◽  
Scientific Methods ◽  
Blind Review ◽  
The Social ◽  
Education Personnel

Objective: This study sought to identify the main aspects related to students' expectations regarding higher education.Method: The research was conducted in the Capes (Coordination for Improvement of Higher Education Personnel), in the last 10 years, through blind review system. The scientific methods used were SLR (Systematic Literature Review), meta-analysis (Cooper, 2016) and content analysis (Bardin, 2011).Originality / Relevance: Despite recent surveys on higher education, the originality of the study can be justified by the lack of studies addressing the expectation on higher education using meta-analysis.Results: The article identifies the gaps that exist between the offer made by the HEIs (Higher Education Institutions) and what is really expected by students towards higher education. Such comprehension can contribute to improve the marketing strategies, as well as the management of the HEI services, by understanding the factors that may affect the student behavior.Theoretical / Methodological Contributions: This research contributes to the understanding of the changes that have affected the education field, especially higher education, in which is noticed the increasing dropout and mismatch between the objectives of the subjects involved, as well as the profound ongoing changes in the social, economic and technological contexts. Therefore, it serves as a subsidy for marketing studies, especially on consumer behavior, as well as to surveys related to the higher education.

scholarly journals Outdoor recreation and forest management: A plea for empirical data

2007 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-238 ◽  
Author(s):  
H W Harshaw ◽  
S.R.J. Sheppard ◽  
R A Kozak
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Outdoor Recreation ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Forested Landscapes ◽  
Public Recreation ◽  
Recreation Use

For many people, outdoor recreation provides one of the main opportunities to experience, interact with, and learn about forested landscapes. Yet public recreation use of forests in Canada is not yet well understood; knowing more about this important forest stakeholder group would help to address aspects of social sustainability in forest management. Four considerations for explicitly addressing outdoor recreation interests in forest land-use planning and for the collection of recreation data are presented: (1) normative; (2) pragmatic; (3) economic; and (4) governance. Approaches for the collection of recreation-use characteristics are also discussed. Key words: outdoor recreation, data collection, sustainable forest management, social values

scholarly journals Open source solutions to improve the quality of sustainable forest management

2019 ◽  
Vol 290 ◽  
pp. 11003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iulian Alexandru Bratu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Information Technology ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Green Energy ◽  
Special Role ◽  
Social Functions ◽  
Individual Perception ◽  
The Social

Climate change is becoming more acute, including in terms of individual perception. Forest, as an ecosystem, has a special role to play in mitigating climate change, protecting the soil, water and air. There are forests of scientific interest, preservation of the Eco fund and forest Geno fund, as well as recreational forests, so that the ecological functions are fulfilled in the optimum. Also, alongside the social function, green energy generation is one of the main attributes of the forest. In addition to preserving biodiversity, the forestry administration has as objectives the provision of the necessary resources for the short, medium and long-term development of local communities. Forest management that harmoniously combines ecological, economic and social functions cannot be sustained, at least in the information age, without relying on information technology. This article aims to address the issue of information technology in the forest administration, identifying needs and providing viable, high quality, open source solutions.

Sustainable management of old-growth boreal forests: Myths, possible solutions and challenges

2010 ◽  
Vol 86 (1) ◽  
pp. 70-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Héloïse Le Goff ◽  
Louis De Grandpré ◽  
Daniel Kneeshaw ◽  
Pierre Bernier
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Boreal Forests ◽  
Sustainable Management ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Social Values ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Forest Sector ◽  
Old Growth ◽  
Good Opportunity ◽  
Management Framework

Old-growth boreal forests serve as focal points for many issues affecting the forest sector such as sustainable forest management and the development of a conservation network. They also challenge the implementation of an adaptive management framework and participative natural resources management. Old-growth boreal forests thus provide a good opportunity for the forest sector to develop transparent management that integrates the diversity of social values associated with old-growth boreal forests. In this paper, we review the different issues related to the sustainable management and conservation of old-growth boreal forests and present these issues in terms of myths and solutions. Finally, we identify and discuss the current limits of our understanding of these issues and we propose research priorities to bridge these knowledge gaps. Key words: sustainable forest management, old-growth boreal forests, biodiversity, social values, adapted silvicultural systems

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