Sustainability and the Canadian forest sector

The present paper examines the efficiency of the current established criteria and indicators for sustainable development of the forest sector. The current system of criteria and indicators concentrates on the management aspects instead of objective setting. The current system is too complicated to be implemented and neglects the fact that sustainability cannot be achieved by a top-down approach but only by the people working on the ground at the local level. This paper presents a number of guidelines on the necessary steps to be taken in order to move towards what we call "a forest sector for sustainable development." Key words: sustainable forest management, criteria and indicators, institutional/legislative framework, planning, data availability

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Covid-19 Outbreak, Timber Production, and Livelihoods in Nepal

Tribhuvan University Journal ◽

10.3126/tuj.v34i0.31536 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 15-32

Author(s):

Bijendra Basnyat ◽

Sony Baral ◽

Krishna Raj Tiwari ◽

Gajendra Kumar Shrestha ◽

Bikash Adhikari ◽

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Keyword(s):

Local Community ◽

Local Level ◽

Rural Livelihoods ◽

Forest Sector ◽

Secondary Source ◽

Timber Production ◽

Telephone Interviews ◽

The People ◽

Forestry Sector ◽

Conservation Finance

The study assesses the likely consequences of COVID-19 in the forest sector of Nepal, focusing on timber production and rural livelihoods. The study conducted telephone interviews along with a review of the secondary source of information and consultations. The timber production in 2020 is likely to decrease by 80% compared to previous years, resulting in a monetary loss of NRs 647.0 million. Furthermore, local community will lose 147,447 days of employment, amounting NRs 117.9 million. This will make livelihoods of the people more vulnerable. Returning of youths from abroad can further escalate biodiversity threats. Timber import is likely to increase in the country, thus impacting on local level employment opportunities. Both long-term and short-term strategies are necessary to revive the timber production and rural livelihoods, where priority should be on increasing investment in the forestry sector. However, public-sector investment is declining. Hence there is a need to expand conservation finance portfolios to incentivise rural people on timber production and achieve synergies between conservation and livelihood outcomes.

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Advancing the cause? Contributions of criteria and indicators to sustainable forest management in Canada

The Forestry Chronicle ◽

10.5558/tfc2011-047 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 87 (04) ◽

pp. 488-493 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Peter Duinker

Keyword(s):

Forest Management ◽

Policy Development ◽

Sustainable Forest Management ◽

Forest Policy ◽

Forest Sector ◽

Full Potential ◽

Criteria And Indicators ◽

Wide Range ◽

Practical Experiences ◽

Forest Values

The aim of the paper is to take stock, based on my personal scholarly and practical experiences, of the progress made in Canada with criteria and indicators of sustainable forest management (C&I-SFM). Some developmental history is reviewed, and applications at national and local levels are summarized. In my opinion, Canada's work in developing and applying C&I-SFM has been beneficial, particularly in focussing forest-sector dialogues, in sensitizing people to the wide range of forest values, and in retrospective determinations of progress in SFM. Improvements over the next decade are needed in several areas: (a) improving data-collection programs; (b) linking C&I-SFM more directly into forest policy development; (c) shifting from retrospective to prospective sustainability analysis; and (d) applying C&I-SFM to non-industrial forests such as protected areas and urban forests. The C&I-SFM concept is sound. We have yet to tap its full potential in the pursuit of forest and forest-sector sustainability.

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Reviewing Canada's National Framework of Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management

The Forestry Chronicle ◽

10.5558/tfc81073-1 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 81 (1) ◽

pp. 73-80 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

S R.J. Bridge ◽

D. Cooligan ◽

D. Dye ◽

L. Moores ◽

T. Niemann ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Forest Management ◽

Sustainable Forest Management ◽

National Level ◽

Sustainable Use ◽

Forest Sector ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Criteria And Indicators ◽

Broad Array ◽

Canadian Council ◽

Tools And Techniques

The Canadian Council of Forest Ministers' (CCFM) framework of Criteria and Indicators (C&I) for Sustainable Forest Management, published in 1995, provide a science-based framework to define and measure Canada's progress in the sustainable management of its forest. In 2001, the CCFM launched a review of its C&I to ensure the continued relevance of the indicators to Canadian values and to improve the ability to report on indicators. This paper describes the threestep review process, which engaged a broad array of representatives of various sectors of society. First, focus groups were used to identify public values, issues and concerns with respect to the sustainable use of Canada's forest. Second, technical experts from across the forest sector revised the indicators. Third, the revised C&I were validated with users of the framework. The revised framework, released in September 2003, consists of six criteria and 46 indicators. The number of indicators has been reduced, compared to the 1995 framework, by focusing on indicators that are most relevant to Canadians' values, are most often measurable with available data, and are understandable to policy makers, forest managers and an informed public. Links between criteria are better defined and, in some cases, indicators address multiple values under different criteria. A number of tools and techniques originally developed for use at the sub-national level were adapted for use at the national level in this review. Canada's experience with reviewing its indicators may serve as an example and model to other countries now considering reviewing their national C&I frameworks. Key words: Canada, Canadian Council of Forest Ministers, criteria and indicators, C&I, sustainable forest management, review

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Conseil canadien des ministres des forêts : Champions de la gestion durable des forêts

The Forestry Chronicle ◽

10.5558/tfc79752-4 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 79 (4) ◽

pp. 752-756

Author(s):

André H Rousseau

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Management ◽

Sustainable Forest Management ◽

Well Being ◽

Forest Sector ◽

Forest Resource ◽

Criteria And Indicators ◽

Canadian Council ◽

International Issues ◽

National Framework

The Canadian Council of Forest Ministers (CCFM), established in 1985, is composed of the federal, provincial and territorial Ministers responsible for forests. Its role has evolved into one that stimulates the development of policies and initiatives for strengthening the forest sector, including the forest resource and its use. One of the most important functions of the CCFM is that it sets the overall direction for the stewardship and sustainable management of Canada's forests by addressing issues and stimulating joint initiatives. Under its guidance, four successive National Forest Strategies and three Forest Accords have been developed. Another major achievement has been the development of the CCFM Criteria and Indicators Framework: Defining Sustainable Forest Management - A Canadian Approach to Criteria and Indicators. Today, the CCFM works under five strategic themes: sustainable forestry; international issues; forest communities; science and technology; and information and knowledge. The ongoing, positive cooperation between the two levels of government helps maintain healthy and productive forests and their sustained contribution to Canadians' economic, environmental and social well-being over the long term. Key words: stewardship, governments, collaboration, national framework, for action, criteria and indicators, integrated information

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Sustainable Development Goals and the Forest Sector—a Complex Relationship

Forests ◽

10.3390/f10020152 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 10 (2) ◽

pp. 152 ◽

Cited By ~ 14

Author(s):

Rupert J. Baumgartner

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Sustainable Development Goals ◽

Sustainable Forest Management ◽

Future Research ◽

Forest Sector ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Core Element ◽

The Sustainable Development ◽

Agenda 2030 ◽

Development Goals

The United Nations adopted the Agenda 2030 with its core element, the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), in September 2015. In order to achieve these goals within the coming years, intense efforts are required by all political and societal actors. Although the first definitions of sustainable development referred to the forest sector, the question remains: what contribution can forestry make to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals? Therefore, the direct positive and negative effects of forestry itself on sustainability are analyzed, and it is discussed how sustainable forest management could contribute to achieving other Sustainable Development Goals in addition to SDG 15. This analysis reveals that forestry plays a dual role, i.e., forestry can achieve positive sustainability effects but can also have negative impacts. It is thus recommended to use integrated assessment approaches to analyze whether a specific forest-related policy or strategy is contributing to sustainable development. Beside quantitative integrated assessments, the use of qualitative frameworks like the Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development is proposed. It is also suggested to operationalize the concept of second-order sustainability performance for the forest sector in future research.

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Institutional vacuums in Canadian forest policy: Can criteria and indicators and certification of sustainable forest management fill the void?

The Forestry Chronicle ◽

10.5558/tfc85277-2 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 85 (2) ◽

pp. 277-284

Author(s):

M.K. (Marty) Luckert ◽

Peter C Boxall

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Forest Management ◽

Property Rights ◽

Sustainable Forest Management ◽

Forest Policy ◽

Forest Industry ◽

Criteria And Indicators ◽

Current Thinking ◽

Policy Frameworks ◽

Forest Lands

This paper discusses the potential of certification and criteria and indicators (C&I) of sustainable forest management (SFM) for filling voids in forest policy in Canada. These processes have promised advances towards SFM that the current property rights conveyed on the forest industry, through existing systems of tenures, may simply not allow. In general, the broad social welfare approach that current thinking in sustainable development supports, and that certification and criteria and indicators appear to employ, is not consistent with the incentives, rights, and responsibilities that private forestry firms currently hold. There is a fundamental mismatch between the property rights that have been conveyed to private firms operating on public forest lands and what the policy frameworks of certification and C&I are expected to deliver. The conclusion is that if the voids in forest policy are to be successfully filled by certification and C&I, the underlying property rights currently held by firms will need revision. Key words: sustainable forest management, criteria and indicators, certification, Canadian forest policy, forest tenures

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METHODOLOGY FOR DEFINING SUSTAINABLE SPATIAL FORESTRY

Economic innovations ◽

10.31520/ei.2019.21.3(72).71-78 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 21 (3(72)) ◽

pp. 71-78

Author(s):

Ye.V. MISHENIN ◽

I.Ye. YAROVA

Keyword(s):

Sustainable Development ◽

Forest Management ◽

Sustainable Forest Management ◽

Sustainable Use ◽

Spatial Development ◽

Forest Sector ◽

Forest Resource ◽

Resource Potential ◽

Rational Use ◽

Methodological Basis

Topicality. The current change in the ideology of forest management in Ukraine towards sustainable spatial development of forestry is due to the promising importance of ecosystem, economic and social values of forest resources, their multifunctional and intersectoral nature of the use of resource and ecological potential of forests, as well as the growing needs of society regarding the quality of the natural environment. Structural negative changes taking place in the forest sector during the transformation of the economy focus on the problem of sustainable spatial forestry. In particular, the restructuring of forest ownership forms, fiscal policy in the sector, forest management functions and integrated multi-purpose forest use are not consistent with the requirements of sustainable spatial development and a market-oriented model of forestry economics. More active implementation of institutional, ecological and economic, organizational and managerial mechanisms for ensuring sustainable spatial forestry requires conceptual and methodological reflection on the spatial approach to forestry.Aim and tasks. The purpose of the article is deepening the conceptual and methodological principles of sustainable spatial forestry in the context of modern environmental and economic problems of rational use of forest resource potential. Conceptually-methodological understanding of forestry requires: the disclosure of the substantive content of the spatial forestry; definition of features of formation and development of forest management; formation of criteria (classification) signs of the forestry space.Research results. The conceptual and methodological basis for the formation of forestry space is proposed in order to ensure sustainable development of the forestry complex. The basic economic-organizational principles of spatial development of forestry systems are considered. The content basis of sustainable forest management, in contrast to the forestry (in the broad sense), includes a wider range of organizational and technological components of forest-ecological, environmental, economic and social trends that are associated with sustainable use and the reproduction of forest resource potential and forestry space. Forestry space represents a combination of components of forest resource potential and socio-economic environment within a certain forestry region with their links and diverse relationships that are necessary for the sustainable development of society. The natural, informational, economic, financial, and intellectual components of forestry complement the institutional, which outline the legal norms for forest management. Forestry within the understanding of forestry space includes aspects of socio-ecological and economic equilibrium of forestry systems of different hierarchical levels of the organization.Conclusion. Research of the economic space of forestry goes beyond the substantive basis of the forestry economy, the theoretical and methodological basis of the regional economy, therefore, there is a problem of the formation of a new direction in the implementation of sustainable spatial forestry, which requires the consolidation of research into a coherent whole. It is the formation and development of an environmentally balanced, economic forestry space that is a prerequisite for rational use, reproduction and conservation of forest resource potential on an ecosystem basis.

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Can Top Down Participatory Budgeting Work? The Case of Polish Community Fund

Central European Public Administration Review ◽

10.17573/cepar.2018.2.09 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 179-192 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Dawid Sześciło ◽

Bartosz Wilk

Keyword(s):

Local Governments ◽

Central Government ◽

Local Level ◽

Collaborative Management ◽

Participatory Budgeting ◽

Top Down ◽

Polish Experience ◽

Legislative Framework ◽

Local Initiatives ◽

Legislative Model

The article addresses the participatory budgeting (PB), which is one of the most recognised governance innovations of recent decades. This global phenomenon represents in practice a shift towards participatory and collaborative management of public resources at the local level. The purpose of this article is to determine when top down approach to PB might be welcomed, taking into account the characteristics of PB schemes all around the world that they emerged as local initiatives, instigated either by civil society groups or local governments. The analysis is based on the description of the PB example as introduced via country-wide legislation, exhaustively regulating PB procedure. The article examines Polish experience in the field of functioning top down approach to PB. It demonstrates that top down PB can effectively work, if it is accompanied with significant incentives and grants, as well as the extensive autonomy and flexibility of local communities. Polish experience suggests that such an initiative might be relatively successful, yet there is a number of conditions that has to be met in order to ensure the dissemination of legislative model of participatory budgeting. The results have practical implications to central government institutions that consider introduction of some legislative framework for participatory budgeting at the local level. The originality of the research is in the analysis of one of successful stories of the PB introduced via country-wide legislation, and determining when this approach can work, also in other countries.

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