The Impact of Uncertainty Concerning Historical Burned Area Estimates on Forest Management Planning

2013 ◽  
Vol 59 (5) ◽  
pp. 578-588 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Savage ◽  
B. Mike Wotton ◽  
David L. Martell ◽  
Douglas G. Woolford
2005 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 401-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Len M Hunt ◽  
Peter Boxall ◽  
Jeffrey Englin ◽  
Wolfgang Haider

This paper assesses the impact that the routine application of Ontario's forest management planning process has on the revenue generation of sport fishing tourism sites. The analysis employs a hedonic pricing model to examine jointly these effects on revenue for three tourism experiences. These tourism experiences offer different degrees of remoteness, and as a consequence, require different levels of effort and cost to visit. Modelling the relationship between price and attributes of sites such as remoteness permits the analysis to forecast the revenue generation potential of sport fishing tourism sites under a range of forest management schemes. The results show that the extent of forest harvesting had no statistical relationship with prices charged for fishing packages at road-, boat-, or train-accessible sites and a negative but small impact on the prices charged for fishing packages at sites accessible by float plane.


2009 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 27-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bal Krishna Jamarkattel ◽  
Sindhu Prasad Dhungana ◽  
Srijana Baral ◽  
Bishwas Rana ◽  
Hari Dhungana

The Government of Nepal has had a high interest in the Terai forest in order to harness its enormous revenue potential. However, the policies and plans formulated to this end have not attained the intended results, as these have failed to fully understand the emerging complexities in the Terai. Accordingly, policy response has often been ad hoc, inconsistent and unstable, leading to confusion and conflict on Terai forest management. Drawing on the cases of three districts of Lumbini zone in the Western Terai of Nepal, this paper discusses the forest management context of Nepal Terai, and identifies key innovations that have emerged at district and local levels. It argues that these innovations have the potential for a creative transformation of forest management planning process at district and local level, and for their wider replication and diffusion. This paper also discusses key issues that need further attention so as to maximise the impact of these innovations by putting them into practice. It highlights that emerging complexity of Nepal Terai requires much wider stakeholder engagement in order to facilitate forest management planning and implementation that benefit both the government and the people. Full text is available at the ForestAction websiteDOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jfl.v8i2.2306 Journal of Forest and Livelihood 8(2) February 2009 pp.27-38


1990 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 391-404 ◽  
Author(s):  
David A. MacLean

Impact of forest pests and fire on stand growth and timber yield is reviewed, with emphasis on spruce budworm (Choristoneurafumiferana (Clem.)). Damaging agents reduce tree growth, kill trees, destroy the commercial value of stands, and sometimes reduce yield in subsequent rotations. Sustainable harvest may be reduced by up to 60% by a severe spruce budworm outbreak and up to 40% by a 1% per annum loss to fire. Serious overestimation of future timber supply can therefore result from the failure to allow for catastrophic or continual small losses caused by fire or biotic agents. Current efforts in New Brunswick to explicitly incorporate effects of spruce budworm defoliation into forest management planning are described, including research studies into protection planning and delivery, damage detection, and defoliation-based growth forecasting. An improved understanding of the impact of insects, disease, and fire on stand yield and methods to incorporate this information into timber supply analyses are essential to reduce uncertainty about future timber supply.


2008 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emin Zeki Baskent ◽  
Salih Terzioğlu ◽  
Şağdan Başkaya

FLORESTA ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 433
Author(s):  
José Das Dores De Sá Rocha ◽  
José Arimatéa Silva ◽  
Vitor Afonso Hoeflich ◽  
Francisco Carneiro Barreto Campello

As instituições dos estados do Nordeste que assumiram a gestão florestal foram diagnosticadas pelo Ministério do Meio Ambiente em 2009. Decorrente deste estudo regional, o presente trabalho tem como objetivos: i) Caracterizar os instrumentos de política e de gestão florestal no estado do Maranhão; ii) Analisar o atual modelo de gestão florestal estadual. Os dados foram obtidos de fontes secundárias na rede mundial de computadores e através da aplicação de questionários em dois Seminários realizados no próprio estado. Os instrumentos de política e gestão florestal foram classificados segundo suas características legais, econômicas e administrativas afetas ao tema. O modelo de gestão florestal foi analisado com base no modelo de excelência em gestão pública, adaptado para o estudo. As principais conclusões foram: há conflitos legais de competências da gestão florestal no estado, entre a SEMA e a SEAGRO; a SEMA é responsável pela política e pela gestão florestal maranhense; uma Superintendência de Gestão Florestal, ainda não institucionalizada, estava, na prática operando a gestão florestal; planejamento, execução e controle da gestão florestal foram avaliados, de modo geral, em situação insatisfatória, tanto pelo público interno da SEMA quanto pelos seus usuários.Palavras-chave: Modelo de gestão florestal; descentralização; Nordeste do Brasil. AbstractForest management in the State of Maranhão, beyond decentralization. The institutions in the Northeastern states that assumed forest management were diagnosed by the Ministry of Environment in 2009. Due to this regional study, this paper aims to: i) characterize the fundamentals of policy and forest management in the state of Maranhão, ii) analyze the current model of state forest management. Data were obtained from secondary sources on the World Wide Web and through questionnaires in two seminars held within the state. The fundamentals of policy and forest management were characterized on the basis of legal instruments, administrative and economic sympathetic to the issue. The forest management model was analyzed based on the model of excellence in public management, adapted for the study. The main conclusions were: conflicts of legal jurisdiction in the state of forest management, and between SEAGRO and SEMA.SEMA is responsible for forest management policy and Maranhão, a Superintendent of Forest Management, not yet institutionalized, was in practice the operating forest management, planning, execution and control of forest management were evaluated, in general, an unsatisfactory situation, both the public and internal SEMA by its users.Keywords: Forest Management model; decentralization; Northeast of Brazil.


2009 ◽  
Vol 128 (3) ◽  
pp. 305-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Maltamo ◽  
P. Packalén ◽  
A. Suvanto ◽  
K. T. Korhonen ◽  
L. Mehtätalo ◽  
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