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

Outdoor recreation participation in BC forest-dependent communities

2008 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 210-220
Author(s):  
H W Harshaw
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Outdoor Recreation ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Social License ◽  
Local Residents ◽  
Recreation Participation ◽  
Recreation Use ◽  
Forest Managers

Understanding recreation behaviour can help forest managers identify public uses of forests and gauge the extent of recreation use. This paper documents recreation behaviour in nine forest-dependent communities in British Columbia and examines three questions: (1) is outdoor recreation relevant to local residents?; (2) what are the characteristics of outdoor recreation participation?; and (3) are local residents satisfied with outdoor recreation forest management outcomes and land-use planning processes? Involvement in recreation activities was varied and longstanding. Non-motorized and motorized recreation played important roles as people’s main connection to forests. Knowing about recreationists’ satisfaction with land-use planning outcomes can help forest managers assess their success in meeting land-use objectives, and may help alleviate uncertainties in forest planning and management by reducing conflict, improving quality-of-life, and contributing to the social license of forestry activities. Key words: forest recreation; sustainable forest management; recreation participation

scholarly journals The urban public and forest land-use planning: Tapping into the majority

2007 ◽  
Vol 83 (2) ◽  
pp. 221-230
Author(s):  
Scott Kidd ◽  
A. John Sinclair
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
General Public ◽  
Public Involvement ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
East Side ◽  
Forested Landscapes

Canadians desire involvement in forest management at normative or early planning phases. One way of accomplishing this is through meaningful public involvement in land-use planning efforts. The Provinces of Ontario and Manitoba have, respectively, completed or are completing the development of land use plans for large areas of forested landscapes. Both governments identified public participation as being an integral part of these processes. This paper examines how well these processes promoted participation by the general public, the vast majority of which resides in urban areas located outside the respective planning regions. It is determined that in both cases this was poorly done. Reasons are given for why and how increased participation by the urban public should be pursued. Key words: public involvement, land-use planning, forest management, urban centres, Lands for Life, East Side Planning Initiative, Canada

Forestry Policy and Legitimacy: The Case of Forest Devolution in Vietnam

2020 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 848-862
Author(s):  
Thi Kim Phung Dang
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Land Allocation ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Forestry Policy ◽  
Local Resources ◽  
Intrinsic Values ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Livelihood Improvement ◽  
Research Findings

Although forest devolution has become a key strategy of forestry reforms to mobilise local resources for sustainable forest management, there is growing concern about the legitimacy of this strategy. There have been escalating disputes between forestry agencies and local people as to who receives the rights to forests. Examining the policy of forest land allocation in Vietnam helps us to understand this legitimacy issue. Research findings from three case studies show trade-offs between the two policies’ goals, environmental protection and livelihood improvement, due to locals’ low awareness of the intrinsic values of forests and their lack of knowledge regarding the policy.

Upwards from the Plateau

1968 ◽  
Vol 44 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-13
Author(s):  
G. H. Bayly
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Land Management ◽  
Wildlife Management ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Regional Planning ◽  
Leadership Role ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
The Future

The development of the forester's leadership role in forest land management is compared to rising profile of land between a sea or lake shoreline and a range of mountains, the progression is upward but the rate of climb changes. No plateau is identified. Reference is made to forestry leadership in several fields of forest land management; administration, land use, planning, research, forest management, recreational land use and fish and wildlife management. It is noted that forest land management includes activities for which foresters were not academically trained and reference is made to the fact that non-foresters, e.g. biologists and geographers are giving leadership in forest land management and thus providing beneficial competition and stimulation. The most important leadership role in the future may relate to regional planning. The forestry profession is cautioned not to abdicate this field to those in other disciplines.

Globale Walderhaltung und -bewirtschaftung und ihre Finanzierung: eine Bestandesaufnahme | Global forest conservation and management and its financing: an appraisal

2011 ◽  
Vol 162 (4) ◽  
pp. 107-116
Author(s):  
Jürgen Blaser ◽  
Christian Küchli
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Land Use Planning ◽  
Forest Conservation ◽  
Forest Cover ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Forest Protection

Around one third of the earth's surface is under forest cover which is distributed more or less equally between industrialised and developing countries. Whereas forest areas in the temperate and boreal climate zones are more or less stable or on the increase, the scale of deforestation and forest degradation in the tropics remains dramatic. This situation is likely to continue in the decades to come because the world's ever-growing population needs new agricultural land and the pressure on resources (forest products, land, water, minerals) continues to increase as a result of globalisation and global change. Moreover, sustainable forest management has not yet become standard practice in many southern countries because forest management can rarely compete with other forms of land use in terms of economic returns. The protection and sustainable management of forest resources is basically the responsibility of each individual country and cannot be regulated and financed globally. However, enormous financial resources, i.e. on a scale of tens of billions of Swiss francs per year, are required for the introduction of comprehensive land-use planning in developing countries incorporating suitable protection of natural forests and sustainable forest management. New approaches for the valorisation of services provided by forests such as carbon sinks (e.g. REDD+) offer significant potential for improving forest protection and sustainable forest management. It augurs well that the economic internalisation of the forest and its services is in full swing at global level and that, based on the REDD+ resolutions passed at the last climate conference in Cancún, many countries have opted for the path of forest conservation and sustainable forest management.

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

scholarly journals Open geo-spatial data for sustainable forest management: Lithuanian case

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daiva Tiškutė-Memgaudienė ◽  
◽  
Gintautas Mozgeris ◽  
Algis Gaižutis ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Forest Monitoring ◽  
Private Forest ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Private Forest Owners ◽  
Forest Owners ◽  
Privately Owned

In Lithuania, forests are managed by Lithuanian State Forest Enterprise, municipalities, ministries, etc. and private forest owners. About 50% of all forest land is State importance, privately owned forests cover 40% of forest land, and about 10% of forest land belongs to forests reserved for restitution. Forest management of private ownership force many challenges, because private forest owners are people, who have purchased or received the property after restitution, and often lacks knowledge about forest resources, its dynamics and sustainable forest management. As remote sensing is a valuable source for forest monitoring, because it provides periodic data on forest resource and condition status, these methods are gaining increased attention worldwide. In this context, more scientific efforts are made at developing remote sensing derived geo-spatial data services for sustainable forest management through a web service platform, which would integrate geo-information into daily decision making processes and operation for private forest owners. This article presents a review of privately owned forests’ statistics, questionnaire-based survey about GIS usage and demand for forest owners in Lithuania and links available sources of open geo-spatial data useful for sustainable forest management.

Enhancing sustainable forest management in Indonesia

1996 ◽  
Vol 61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pratiwi ◽  
N. Lust
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Forest Resources ◽  
Forest Land ◽  
Land Area ◽  
Degraded Land ◽  
Population Number ◽  
Deforestation Rate ◽  
Forest Functions ◽  
Long Time

This  paper gives an overview of the problems of forest management and proposed  strategy to enhance sustainable forest management in Indonesia. The increase  of the population number leads to need of land to support their activities,  particularly for agriculture, pasture, settlement, etc. Since forest is the  major land-use in Indonesia, deforestation is inevitable. Deforestation rate  in Indonesia increased, from 0.3 percent in 1970s to 0.6 percent of total  land in 1980's, causing socio-economic and ecological consequences. Based on  the awareness of the multiple forest functions concerning the ecological,  social and economical aspects, declined forest land area might lead to local  and global catastrophes. Hence forest resources should be stabilized or even  the area should be increased through declining deforestation, increasing  reforestation areas on degraded land, etc. In addition the forest should be  maintained based on the principles of sustainable forest management. Efforts  in sustaining forest existence and forest management in Indonesia have been  started since long time, but the success of these efforts is still to be  increased by enhancing sustainable forest management.

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

scholarly journals Certification Programme For Sustainable Forest Management

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Pudji Muljono
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Social Sustainability ◽  
Timber Production ◽  
Forest Certification ◽  
Economic Sustainability ◽  
Socially Responsible ◽  
Management Standards ◽  
Certification Programme

The article describes about cerlification programme for sustainable forest management. Concern for forest problems has increased dramatically over last decade. Sustainable forest management is an inherent aim of certification. It is the ultimate goal to which certified forest should aspire, but such a goal is reached only through a period of transition, during which management standards are progressively established and fine-tuned. The explicit aim of certification is to improve the quality of forest management so as to reach this goal. The aim of certification systems is to make timber production more ecologically and socially responsible and economically viable by grading sources so that consumers can choose on these grounds. The argument is that environmentally aware consumers will be prepared to pay more for products if they know where these come from and how they have been produced. Higher prices will motivate timber companies to implement sustainable forest management principles. There are certain general principles of sustainability which have been agreed, these include emvironmental sustainability social sustainability and economic sustainability. This article describes focus on certification in context, certification in practice, views on certification, overall trends in the certification debate, the sticky issues differing views that need resolving, and the forest certification programme in lndonesia.

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