scholarly journals The Effect of Forest Policy on the Use of Forest Resources and Forest Industry Investments in Russia

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (10) ◽  
pp. 90-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timo Karjalainen ◽  
Lasse Jutila ◽  
Timo Leinonen ◽  
Yuri Gerasimov
Keyword(s):  
Forest Policy ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Forest Industry

scholarly journals REVIEW OF OPEN SOURCE QGIS FORESTRY PLUGINS

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
E. S. Podolskaia ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Forest Industry ◽  
New Developments ◽  
Forest Fire Management ◽  
Gis Tools ◽  
Spatial Coverage ◽  
Selection Of

Forest industry today has some experience of using Open Source-programs. The article describes the Open Source QGIS plugins to solve the forestry challenges for the forest fire management and forest resources in scientific and applied research. Undertaken analysis will simplify selection of tools for a forest geoinformation project in Desktop and Web versions. A general brief description of modern plugins in QGIS (version 3.18.1) is given, and forestry plugins are characterized. An analysis of external QGIS plugins for working with forest resources and forest fires showed the heterogeneity of research, which has not identified any trends yet. Development of plugins with available data as map services for territories of different spatial coverage may be an option for the future research, while the ability to access archived data is important for the forest industry. The niche of thematic forest tasks in the modern QGIS plugin repository continues to be quite narrow. Transport and environmental applications implemented in GIS tools are more numerous and can solve some tasks of a forest project. Such review of plugins’ functionality should be done on a regular basis, following new developments and new versions of QGIS software.

scholarly journals FEATURES OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF THE FOREST SECTOR IN A FOREST-POOR REGION (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE VORONEZH REGION)

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-16
Author(s):  
Irina Zinoveva ◽  
Olga Pecherskaya
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Regional Economy ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Forest Sector ◽  
Economic Activities ◽  
Voronezh Region ◽  
Forest Use ◽  
Regional Forest ◽  
The Impact

The paper considers the directions of development of the region of the forestry sector of low-forest use on the example of the Voronezh region, highlights the factors and conditions for sustainable development and regional forest policy, principles, principles of compatibility of the compatibility of the use of forest resources in one area. It is emphasized that for sparsely wooded regions it is advisable to conduct economic activities within the framework of public-private partnerships associated with ensuring the protection and protection of forests, afforestation and reforestation, that is, activities related to the creation of a resource region. It is noted that the non-resource use of forests due to the disclosure of the recreational potential of the territory contributes not only to the development of the regional economy, but also satisfies the population's need for recreation, allowing to restore the lost working capacity. Forest plots from the lands of the forest fund of the Voronezh region in 2018-2020 were provided for permanent (unlimited) use, rent, free fixed-term use. The analysis showed an increase in the number of contracts for the implementation of recreational activities, construction, reconstruction, operation of linear objects, as well as hunting. With the aim of a balanced use of forest resources, taking into account the impact on the development of the regional economy, the criteria for choosing a priority direction of forest use were determined.

Digital Mechanisms of Management System Optimization in the Forest Industry

2020 ◽  
pp. 174-198
Author(s):  
Yulia Vertakova ◽  
Saniyat Agamagomedova ◽  
Irina Sergeeva ◽  
Andrey Tarasov ◽  
Svetlana Morkovina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
System Optimization ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Nature Management ◽  
Forest Industry ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Digital Management ◽  
Automated Information System

This chapter discusses digital mechanisms for optimizing the management system in the forest industry, which includes organizational, legal, socio-economic, and environmental aspects. Efficient forest management is considered as an integral part of efficient nature management and includes the use of forest resources, their protection, and reproduction of forests. Digital management mechanisms in forest management in general and in the forest industry in particular are based on platform solutions. Platform solutions are based on the formation and processing of data on the basis of a single automated information system, which acts as the foundation for the development of digitalization in forestry. Such a digital platform is designed to provide informational, analytical, consulting, and other support to the activities of all subjects of relations in the field of use, conservation, protection, and reproduction of forest resources.

Book Reviews

2010 ◽  
Vol 48 (1) ◽  
pp. 178-183
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Dynamic Models ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Policy Instruments ◽  
Resource Economics ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Natural Resource Economics ◽  
Forest Economics ◽  
Life Cycle Models ◽  
The University

Ramon Lopez of University of Maryland at College Park reviews “Economics of Forest Resources” by Gregory S. Amacher, Markku Ollikainen, Erkki Koskela,. The EconLit Abstract of the reviewed work begins “Provides a technical survey of forest resource economics, concentrating on developments within the past twenty-five years. Discusses the history of forest economics thought; the Faustmann rotation model; Hartman models of timber and amenity production; two-period life-cycle models; design of forest policy instruments; deforestation--models and policy instruments; conservation of biodiversity in boreal and temperate forests; forest age class models; uncertainty in life-cycle models; risk of catastrophic events; stochastic rotation models; and dynamic models of forest resources. Amacher is Julian N. Cheatham Professor of Forest and Natural Resource Economics at Virginia Polytechnic and State University. Ollikainen is Professor of Environmental and Resource Economics at the University of Helsinki. Koskela is Professor of Public Economics at the University of Helsinki and Academy Professor of Economics at the Academy of Finland. Name and subject indexes.”

scholarly journals Perceived Injustices in Forest Policy Interventions are Causes of Forest Resources Degradation and Loss in Ghana: A Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (03) ◽  
pp. 171-191
Author(s):  
Richard Kyere-Boateng ◽  
Michal V. Marek ◽  
Mikuláš Huba ◽  
Tatiana Kluvankova
Keyword(s):  
Forest Policy ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Policy Interventions

ECONOMIC INDICATORS OF THE TIMBER PROCESSING COMPLEX OF THE URALS DURING THE GREAT PATRIOTIC WAR

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 121-126
Author(s):  
IVAN ZYKIN ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Soviet Union ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Industry Structure ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Forest Industry ◽  
The Urals ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Fixed Assets ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
The Cost

During the Great Patriotic War, the forest industry of the Urals played an important role in the economy of the region and the Soviet Union. Based on the statistical data put into circulation by researcher A.A. Antoufiev, an analysis of the dynamics of the cost of production fixed assets and gross products in the forest industry of the Urals, including per worker, was undertaken. Due to the enemy’s seizure of part of the western territories of the country, thanks to the availability of forests available for operation, enterprises built and reconstructed in the years of the first five-year plans, equipment evacuation, and the fulfillment of defense orders, the share of this sector of the Urals in the production and value of the country’s forest industry increased. However, in the cost of gross products of the region, the share of the forest industry decreased due to the active development of engineering, metallurgy, and arms production. In the forest industry structure, the higher values of production funds and products per worker were in the pulp and paper and plywood industries, the lowest in the field of forest resources. Conclusions were made about an increase in the cost of funds in the Ural forest industry, a slight decrease in the cost of gross products, a lag in the actual labor productivity of workers from the indicators of industry in the region and the Soviet Union.

MASYARAKAT HUKUM ADAT PASKA PUTUSAN MAHKAMAH KONSTITUSI 35: ANTARA REKOGNISI DAN MARGINALISASI

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 123-132
Author(s):  
L.R Wibowo ◽  
M Budi Mulyawan ◽  
Yustina Ambarini M ◽  
Ismatul Hakim
Keyword(s):  
Indigenous Peoples ◽  
Legal Status ◽  
Profit Sharing ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Forest Industry ◽  
Cultural Relations ◽  
Land Area ◽  
West Kalimantan ◽  
Customary Land ◽  
The Right

The Kandayan Dayak  is one of the customary community (MHA) which has been hereditary living in the forest area of ​​West Kalimantan province. The Kandayan has rules and local wisdom in managing  natural resource  that have long been inspired by the ancestors, but their legal status of their residence and  customary land area overlaps with the area of ​​forest timber forest product utilization (UPHHK-HTI) and oil palm plantations. The uncertainty of the ulayat rights made the Kandayan customary  to move to areas outside the limited production forest controlled by UHHK-HTI. The limitations to access natural resources make these indigenous peoples have tocollaborate with local entrepreneur through  profit-sharing mechanism. Along with this partnerships,  they are losing the livelihood resources that have so far sustained their survival and  they are also uprooted from the bonds of cultural relations with their land. In other words their sovereignty over the right of forest resources becomes eroded by excessive capitalization by the modern forest industry

scholarly journals Investigating the Optimal Location of Potential Forest Industry Clusters to Enhance Domestic Timber Utilization in South Korea

Forests ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (9) ◽  
pp. 936
Author(s):  
Heesung Woo ◽  
Hee Han ◽  
Seungwan Cho ◽  
Geonhwi Jung ◽  
Bomi Kim ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
South Korea ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Optimal Location ◽  
Transportation Costs ◽  
Forest Industry ◽  
Optimal Size ◽  
Industry Clusters ◽  
Gis Modeling ◽  
Logistic Analysis

South Korea has abundant forest resources capable of supplying the domestic wood demand. Despite the extensive forest resources, there is continued uncertainty about the nature, quantity, and quality of the timber contained in any particular forested area. Additionally, some technical, logistic, and economic challenges act as barriers to the expansion of domestic timber utilization. To overcome these limitations and to enhance the domestic timber utilization in South Korea, this study investigated the optimal location of potential forest industry clusters. The potential forest availability was estimated based on localized allometric equations. The integration of the analytical hierarchy process and GIS modeling, including a supply chain that minimizes transportation costs, allowed the identification of optimal forest industry clusters locations that balanced the economic, environmental, and social dimensions within the forest industry supply chain. The study reveals that the estimated potential forest resources availability presented approximately 1 billion m3, including sawlog (474 million m3) and pulpwood grade (541 million m3). Additionally, 45 percent of the sawlogs and 48 percent of the pup grade wood were produced from the Gangwon and Gyeongsangbuk-do regions. Furthermore, the logistic analysis indicates that ten potential forest industry clusters are best aligned with the optimal socio-economic impacts with minimized timber transportation costs. To identify the optimal size and number of potential forest industry clusters, further studies that consider fixed and variable costs for maintaining the forest industry clusters are required.

Obstacles to Silviculture in Canada

1985 ◽  
Vol 61 (2) ◽  
pp. 91-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter H. Pearse
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Property Tax ◽  
Raw Material ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
Forest Industry ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Forest Tenure ◽  
Timber Markets

As the source of raw material for Canada's forest industry shifts from the frontier of original timber to managed crops, the policy framework influencing investments in silviculture assumes critical importance. Opportunities for economically beneficial silviculture are probably substantial, but policy makers have been provided with surprisingly little evidence of the kind they need to allocate budgets appropriately. Moreover, governments have created serious obstacles to silviculture through property tax systems that generate disincentives to forest enhancement, through forest tenure arrangements that are insecure or dampen regional timber markets, and through regulations that impede or distort silvicultural effort. Removal of these obstacles, and provision of information and guidance about silvicultural opportunities, would give considerable stimulus to improved forest management in Canada and undoubtedly at less cost than new governmental silvicultural programs. Key words: forest policy economic opportunities, incentives and obstacles for forestry, silvicultural investments, forest regulations.

Community stability and forest policy in British Columbia

1978 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 61-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. N. Byron
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Economies Of Scale ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Forest Industry ◽  
Community Stability ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Total Employment ◽  
Wood Processing ◽  
Forest Policies ◽  
Sustained Yield

Many jurisdictions including British Columbia have adopted sustained-yield forest management as the cornerstone of their forest policies. It has been argued that one consequence is 'community stability.' This paper examines the origins of the argument and its validity in the current context. It is concluded that the permanence or survival of forest industry centres is neither assured by nor solely dependent upon the perpetual maintenance of nearby forests at or near sustained-yield levels. Rather the size and distribution of wood-processing centres seems to be determined by technological economies of scale and location with respect to means of transportation. Secondly, even-flow regulations perse cannot achieve short-term stability of employment or incomes when the forest industry of a region produces primarily for volatile export markets.Evidence is presented to show that the logging, processing, and associated occupations are unstable, relative to other occupational groups, in each of the forest industry centres examined. The instability of total employment seems much greater in a single-industry town than in a diversified city. Much of the short-term employment instability is correlated with changes in the price of lumber destined for export markets. Some means of reducing the instability are discussed.

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