scholarly journals A COMPARISON OF ACTUAL AND POTENTIAL FOREST LAND PRODUCTION IN SASKATCHEWAN

1967 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 257-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Kabzems ◽  
J. P. Senyk
Keyword(s):  
Forest Area ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Land Form ◽  
Forest Production

A comparison is made between actual and potential forest production of a forest area in Saskatchewan. This area is described as to location, physiography, main land characteristics and broad land form — forest relationships.

scholarly journals Use of forest land for national-priority infrastructures in Nepal

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-64
Author(s):  
U. R. Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Forest Area ◽  
Forest Conversion ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Infrastructure Projects ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
National Priority ◽  
Equivalent Area ◽  
Strict Enforcement ◽  
The Government ◽  
Forest Lands

 Forest conversion has been identified as one of the several bottlenecks affecting upon the major infrastructure projects in Nepal, especially in the energy and transport sectors. Nepal’s policy requires at least 40% of its land cover under forest. This means if any forest land is converted to non-forest land, it must be compensated with an equivalent area, preferably in the similar ecotype in the nation. In addition, a specified number of trees must be planted for the number of trees felled in the project site, and the site must be managed and protected for five years by the developers. These provisions have led to growing resentment between the developers and the Ministry of Forests and Soil Conservation (MFSC), leading to delay in providing forest lands for infrastructure projects. With a view to develop mechanisms for the government to rapidly provide forest land for nationally important infrastructure projects, the Government databases were examined to analyze the forests handed over to the developers for non-forestry uses. The data showed that a total of 14,028.4 ha of forest area were handed over to the developers for non-forestry uses until the end of 2015. On an average, 263.8 ha forest area was found to be handed over to the developers between the period of 2010–2013. However, there is a declining trend of forest handed over for non-forestry purposes in the recent years. The decline could be due to the strict enforcement of the legal provision which limits the conversion of forest areas to non-forest areas except in the case of the “national priority projects”. It has been recommended that the conversion of forest for infrastructure development should be examined with a holistic perspective by taking all the related components of forest conversion into consideration, from providing forest land for replacement planting. It is recommended that the Forest Product Development Board (FPDB), a parastatal organization under the MFSC, should be entrusted with the work of plantation related to forest conversion. The fund for this work should flow directly from the developers to the FPDB. The possibility of forming a land bank to facilitate the work of the FPDB is also recommended.Banko Janakari, Vol. 27, No. 1, Page: 60-64

Forest land – causes of change and coherence of data sources

2015 ◽  
Vol 60 (11) ◽  
pp. 54-68
Author(s):  
Marek Jabłoński
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Succession ◽  
Forest Area ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Private Forests

The author presents results of study concerning changes of forest area in Polish gminas and powiats in years 2008–2013. It was recognised that changes of forest area cannot be explained by both afforestation and deforestation processes only. It is important in terms of area fluctuations, eg. of private forests is secondary succession forests on abandoned former farmland as well as heterogeneous approach to the recognition of such areas in the register of land and buildings.

scholarly journals The Conflicts of Ultilization of Forest Area in Bukit Basa Limited Production Forest, Rejang Lebong District, Bengkulu Province

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Gunggung Senoaji
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Forest Area ◽  
Main Function ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Community Forests ◽  
Crop Land ◽  
Agricultural Business

Bukit Basa Limited Production Forest covers 125 hectares, located in Rejang Lebong District, Bengkulu Province, Indonesia.  The main function of limited production forest is to yield forest products, timber and non timber.  In Bukit Basa Limited Production Forest, there has been a change of land use from forest land to a crop land.  There has been conflict in this forest area. The objective of this study was to describe the characteristics of communities cutivating forest land and to suggest conflict resolution of this forest area. The data were collected by field observation, and interview.  The accidental sampling technique was used to select 42 respondents. Legal approaches were  used to find solutions to the tenurial conflict. The results showed that land use of Bukit Basa Limited Production Forest, in 2017 was entirely crop land. All of this forest areas have been illegaly occupied by people.  The average land area of occupied by a household was 1.24 ha. The people acquired their land by buying (4.76%), renting (21.43%), clearing the forest (42.86%), and inheriting (30.95%). The dependence of this community on the forest area was quite high. Only 38.10% of them had agricultural land outside the forest area; 61.9% depended on the land in the forest area. The contribution of farmers' incomes from agricultural business in forest land was 77.22% of their total income. The legalization of the use of limited production forests as crop lands must be enforced through policy schemes of community-based forest management, such as community forests, village forests, community plantations forest, or partnerships.

scholarly journals Global analysis of the slope of forest land

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mikael Lundbäck ◽  
Henrik Persson ◽  
Carola Häggström ◽  
Tomas Nordfjell
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Forest Cover ◽  
Global Analysis ◽  
Forest Area ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Digital Elevation ◽  
Total Forest Area ◽  
Cent Point ◽  
Elevation Model ◽  
Country Specific

Abstract Forests of the world constitute one-third of the total land area and are critical for e.g. carbon balance, biodiversity, water supply and as source for bio-based products. Although the terrain within forest land has a great impact on accessibility, there is a lack of knowledge about the distribution of its variation in slope. The aim was to address that knowledge gap and create a globally consistent dataset of the distribution and area of forest land within different slope classes. A Geographic Information System (GIS) analysis was performed using the open-source QGIS, GDAL and R software. The core of the analysis was a digital elevation model and a forest cover mask, both with a final resolution of 90 m. The total forest area according to the forest mask was 4.15 billion hectares whereof 82 per cent was on slope < 15°. The remaining 18 per cent was distributed over the following slope classes, with 6 per cent on a 15–20° slope, 8 per cent on a 20–30° slope and 4 per cent on a slope > 30°. Out of the major forestry countries, China had the largest proportion of forest steeper than 15° followed by Chile and India. A sensitivity analysis with 20 m resolution resulted in increased steep areas by 1 per cent point in flat Sweden and by 11 per cent points in steep Austria. In addition to country-specific and aggregated results of slope distribution and forest area, a global raster dataset is also made freely available to cover user-specific areas that are not necessarily demarcated by country borders. Apart from predicting the regional possibilities for different harvesting equipment, which was the original idea behind this study, the results can be used to relate geographical forest variables to slope. The results could also be used in strategic forest fire fighting and large-scale planning of forest conservation and management.

scholarly journals The Enforcement of Criminal Law in the Utilization and Management of Forest Area Having Impact Toward Global Warming

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 157
Author(s):  
Ifrani Ifrani ◽  
Yati Nurhayati
Keyword(s):  
Global Warming ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Forest Area ◽  
Illegal Logging ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Capacity Strengthening ◽  
Human Resource Capacity ◽  
Analytical Research ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Resource Capacity

The rampant corruption is in the utilization and its influence on global warming. It is expected in the future, in addition to the availability of maps of forest area easily accessible with some clear regional boundaries, there are also institutional and human resource capacity strengthening in the areas permitting the process to prevent corruption in the management of forest areas in Indonesia resulted in the destruction of natural resources, especially forests. Various activities in that sector become a critical point of the occurrence of corruption cases. In addition to the inadequacy of the forest area maps, unclear set of area boundaries, and the violations of licensing criteria, the cases of illegal logging become the factors that cause damages to the forest land in Indonesia. The purpose of this paper is to find out the relationship between corruption in the permitting conversion of forest land field of the ministry. The method used in this study was descriptive analytical research describing and analyzing the available facts in accordance with the issue that became the object of the research study.

scholarly journals Estimation of tax receipts from the use of forest land in the conditions of decentralization of authority

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 65-72
Author(s):  
Ivan Openko ◽  
Yanina Stepchuk ◽  
Oleg Tsvyakh
Keyword(s):  
National Level ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Forest Area ◽  
Information Support ◽  
Entrepreneurial Activity ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Economic Mechanism ◽  
Rational Use ◽  
Forested Areas ◽  
Forestry Production

Introduction. The financial and economic mechanism rational use and protection of land forestry should be based on realization national land relations policy, which envisages comprehensive state support for efficient use of nature through financing of appropriate organizational measures and introduction of economic instruments, incentives for rational use of forest resources. The main levers of such a mechanism are fiscal, monetary, budgetary and other elements of influence on economic entities. Aims and tasks. To realization the delivered goal it is necessary to solve a number of tasks, namely: to determine the actual area of forest land within the respective united territorial communities in Ukraine, to determine the possible economic income from the use of these forested areas, to calculate the volumes of fiscal receipts to the budgets of united territorial communities from forestry enterprises. Results. With the help of geoinformation approach was installed, it was established that the forest area in the united territorial communities were concentrated in Zhytomyrskа (788.5 thousand ha), Chernihivska (583.6 thousand ha), Volynska (432.9 ha), Rivnenska (282, 8 thousand hectares), Sumska (216,0 thousand hectares) regions. Whereas the smallest forest area within the boundaries of the united territorial communities is concentrated in Kirovohradska, Zakarpatska, Mykolaivska, Zaporizka, Vinnytska, Donetska, Luhanska, Odeska, Khersonska regions. Conclusions. Besides, in the case of use of forest areas within united territorial communities utility companies, they pay 18% income tax, which comes fully to the budget of the united territorial communities. We have made calculation of such fiscal receipts by areas where forestry production it is profitable. Therefore, our proposed scientific approach to the development of a financial and economic mechanism for regulating the rational use of forest land use should be based on the totality of fiscal budgetary relationships between forest resources and subjects entrepreneurial activity, which are based on the application of the geospatial approach of accounting of forest areas as an integral part of information support for the effective functioning of the economic system as a whole. On the whole, due to the proposed financial and economic mechanism, the total amount of tax revenues to united territorial communities in Ukraine can be increased by 10.2% of the actual receipts from their own resources of the united territorial communities in Ukraine for 2015 – 2016, or 6.01% of total volume taxes on individuals' income the united territorial communities in 2018. At the same time, the forest area within the united territorial communities at the national level is only 18.95% as of 2019.

Evaluasi Pelaksanaan Redistribusi Tanah Eks Kawasan Hutan di Kabupaten Musi Rawas

Tunas Agraria ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Agung Anugra Putra Dempo ◽  
M Nazir Salim ◽  
Abdul Haris Farid
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Method ◽  
Forest Area ◽  
Ideal Condition ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Technical Standards ◽  
Official Report ◽  
Land Redistribution ◽  
Boundary Setting ◽  
Descriptive Approach ◽  
Land Use Plan

In 2019, Musi Rawas Regency carried out land redistribution on ex-forest land. The issuance of Presidential Regulation Number 86 in 2018 is expected to accelerate the implementation of agrarian reform. This regulation requires the provision of technical standards, institutional, and stage of activity that run in ideal condition. Therefore, it is necessary to conduct research to explain the extent of the suitability of that components applied in its implementation. This research uses qualitative method and descriptive approach. The result of this research are in the form of mechanism for change of status of forest   area   through forest   area   inauguration and   the   implementation of that land redistribution is carried out according to procedure. Constraints encountered include the relinquishment of the forest area which is still at the official report of the boundary setting area  which  is still at the official report of the boundary setting  stage,  the revision of land use plan (RTRW) is still in progress, and some administrative deficiencies can be resolved appropriately with good coordination between that stakeholders involved.Pada tahun 2019, Kabupaten Musi Rawas melaksanakan redistribusi tanah dari tanah eks kawasan hutan. Terbitnya Peraturan Presiden Nomor 86 Tahun 2018 diharapkan dapat mempercepat pelaksanaan reforma agraria. Regulasi ini mensyaratkan adanya standar teknis, kelembagaan, dan tahapan kegiatan yang berjalan dalam kondisi ideal. Oleh karena itu perlu dilakukan penelitian untuk menjelaskan sejauh mana kesesuaian komponen tersebut diterapkan dalam pelaksanaanya. Penelitian ini menggunakan metode kualitatif dengan pendekatan   deskriptif. Hasil penelitiannya menunjukkan bahwa mekanisme perubahan status kawasan hutan dilakukan dengan pengukuhan kawasan hutan dan pelaksanaan redistribusi tanah tersebut dilaksanakan sesuai prosedur. Kendala-kendala yang ditemui, yakni pelepasan kawasan hutan yang baru sampai pada tahap berita acara tata batas, revisi Rencana Tata Ruang Wilayah (RTRW) sedang berjalan, dan beberapa kekurangan kelengkapan administrasi yang seharusnya bisa diselesaikan dengan tepat dengan koordinasi yang baik antara stakeholder yang terlibat

scholarly journals Farmer’s Household Economy working on conflict areas in The Meru Betiri National Park

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 112
Author(s):  
Purwanto Purwanto ◽  
Sigit Andy Cahyono ◽  
Casimerus Yudi Lastiantoro ◽  
Nana Haryanti
Keyword(s):  
Democratic Party ◽  
National Park ◽  
Central Government ◽  
Forest Area ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Land Conflicts ◽  
Land Conflict ◽  
The People ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

Forest land conflict in Meru Betiri National Park is considered as one of the kind of land conflicts in the forest conservation of Indonesia. The conflict has been taking place between MBNP and the people who live around the forest area (Wonoasri, Sanenrejo, Andongrejo, Curahnongko, and Kandangan) since 1998. The purpose of this research is to know the history of land conflict in Meru Betiri National Park and the impact of land rehabilitation on farmer's income This study was conducted in 2016. Qualitative research was conducted to obtain the historical information of MBNP land conflict and the survey was done to collect data of contribution of cultivation activities in the rehabilitation land (conflict area) on the income of farmers. The forest land conflict took place due to the vacant authority of the central government in 1998 which spread to the local government, so the government is not able to control the illegal harvesting of forest resources and forest area encroachment conducted by the public. In 1999, the local politicians of Indonesian Democratic Party proposed to the Ministry of Forestry in order the conflicted area of MBNP can be cultivated by the people around the area. In 2000, The Forestry Minister issued regulations stated that the assigned land is a rehabilitation zone. The rehabilitation zone must be planted with Multiple Purposes Tree Species (MPTS) and seasonal crops by using agroforestry system. The purpose of MPTS planting is for reforestation and the seasonal crops plantation is addressed for increasing the income of the farmers.  After implementing the program for 15 years, the income generated from the rehabilitation land only Rp. 3,517,100,- (US $ 1 = Rp. 13,400,-) per year or 14,49% of the total income of the farmers. The income from the rehabilitation land contributed as the third source of incomes b esides the non land-based sources of income and the income from migrated remittance.

Forest cover in territorial profiles in Poland

2017 ◽  
Vol 62 (5) ◽  
pp. 62-78
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Ciesielska ◽  
Mariusz Ciesielski
Keyword(s):  
Forest Cover ◽  
Forest Area ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Land Area ◽  
Urban Agglomerations ◽  
Administrative Division

The aim of the article is to present changes in forest cover within 2002—2014 in different territorial profiles. The analysis was conducted on the basis of CSO data concerning forest land, population and changes in administrative division, which were compared in relation to gminas, voivodships and urban agglomerations. The results indicate an increase in forest land area by 290000 ha in the period analysed, which implies an increase in the forest cover indicator by 0.9% across the country. The forest area per 1000 inhabitants also increased (on average by 5.7 ha in Poland). The differences in both indicators were the most visible at a lower territorial level.

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