Investigating social acceptability for public forest management policies as a function of social factors

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 148-155 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nikoleta Jones ◽  
Chrysi Gleridou ◽  
Panayiotis G. Dimitrakopoulos ◽  
Konstantinos I. Evangelinos
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Social Acceptability ◽  
Management Policies

scholarly journals Narrating disturbance : risk, power, and Mountain Pine Beetles

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Elizabeth Waterbury Prentice
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Environmental Change ◽  
Mountain Pine Beetle ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Natural World ◽  
Mountain Pine ◽  
Pine Beetle ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
Cultural Shifts ◽  
The Way

Beginning in the mid 1990's, an outbreak of Mountain Pine Beetle (Dendroctonus ponderosae) in northern Colorado affected over 3.4 million acres of primarily lodgepole pine forest. Mountain Pine Beetle are native to these forests, but the outbreak occurred at an unprecedented scope and scale, reflecting the legacy of forest management policies since the early days of European settlement and evoking new experiences and understandings of landscape in the resource-dependent region. Like much of the American West, this region is in the midst of a transition away from traditional extractive economies towards economies rooted in natural amenities and aesthetic landscape consumption. This transition is accompanied by demographic and cultural shifts, and has implications for the way that natural spaces are understood and ideas about what activities should orient people's relationships to the natural world. Across the disturbance affected area, three sites were selected to represent economic ideal types, ranging from high amenity resort destinations to small rural communities with strong roots in extraction. With data drawn from local newspapers, local and regional organizational publications, state and federal forest service documents and 26 interviews with subjects representing actor groups across the region, local narratives of environmental change were explored through the lens of green governmentality to understand how experiences of environmental change were contextualized by ongoing economic restructuring and cultural shifts. The meaning of the changing image of the landscape, the history of the timber industry in the state and competing narratives of industry decline, and the historic implications of forest management policies in disturbance-dependent forests are explored to shed light on the way that perceptions of landscape are anchored in complex social terrain and how nature can evoke new understandings of nature.

Ontario's Forestry Research Partnership: Progress and next steps

2008 ◽  
Vol 84 (5) ◽  
pp. 756-763 ◽  
Author(s):  
James A Baker ◽  
F. Wayne Bell ◽  
Al Stinson
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Adaptive Management ◽  
Research Partnership ◽  
Organizational Goals ◽  
Phase Approach ◽  
Self Evaluation ◽  
Forestry Research ◽  
Intensive Forest Management ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
Crown Lands

This paper provides a synthesis of a 2-phase approach used by the Canadian Ecology Centre – Forestry Research Partnership (CEC-FRP) to implement adaptive management on 6 forest management units in northeastern Ontario. It also provides a summary of a self evaluation of the partnership using a set of attributes deemed necessary to successfully implement adaptive management (i.e., leadership; alignment with organizational goals; commitment, will, and capacity to act; and formal and explicit documentation). We conclude that the adoption of the 2-phase approach, rather than direct implementation of adaptive management, provided the partners with the means to identify and address critical uncertainties related to intensifying forest management on Crown lands in Ontario, focus research and transfer activities, develop and test new landscape- and stand-level models, and adjust forest management policies and practices. Key words: adaptive management, intensive forest management, knowledge transfer

scholarly journals Habitat selection of Ortolan Buntings Emberiza hortulana on forest clear-cuts in northern Sweden

Ornis Svecica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 89-103
Author(s):  
Julianna Anne Percival ◽  
Svein Dale
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Habitat Selection ◽  
Bare Soil ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Northern Sweden ◽  
Clear Cut ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
Emberiza Hortulana ◽  
Ortolan Bunting ◽  
Selection Of

Ortolan Buntings Emberiza hortulana in Sweden used to occur mainly in farmland. Nowadays, a large proportion of the remaining population is found on forest clear-cuts in northern Sweden. Few studies have identified the types of clear-cuts that Ortolan Buntings prefer and whether these habitats are used for both breeding and foraging. We recorded presence and abundance of ortolan buntings on clear-cuts in Västerbotten County, northern Sweden. We sampled 123 clear-cuts (present N = 48, absent N = 75; total of 93–100 territories) and our results showed that clear-cut size, the number of remaining trees, bare soil percentage (≥10%) and narrow-leaved grass vegetation had a positive influence on ortolan bunting occupancy. The number of territories on clear-cuts was positively related to clear-cut size and number of remaining trees. Proximity to nearby farmland did not influence occupancy on clear-cuts. Behavioural observations indicated that the forest clear-cuts were used for both nesting and feeding. We discuss these results in relation to forest management policies and conservation of the ortolan bunting.

Forest Management Policies and Resource Balance in China

2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvie Démurger ◽  
Hou Yuanzhao ◽  
Yang Weiyong
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Management Policies

Crossing the Divide: Engaging scientists and policy-makers in adapting forest management to climate change in British Columbia

2014 ◽  
Vol 90 (01) ◽  
pp. 89-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindy E. Prescott ◽  
Kristine Weese
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Time Allocation ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
Interdisciplinary Teams ◽  
Provincial Government ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Scientific Excellence ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
Support Research

The Future Forest Ecosystems Scientific Council (FFESC) was created in 2008 following a one-time allocation of funding from the BC provincial government to support research that would inform adaptation of BC’s current forest management policies to a changing climate. A key goal of the council was to maximize the utility of the research to inform provincial policy. The eightstep process that we developed to achieve this goal is described in this paper. In roughly chronological order, the eight steps were: determining the research needed to inform policy, connecting scientists and policy-makers, requiring interdisciplinary teams including both natural and social scientists and relevant stakeholders, assessing proposals for their value to inform policy, fostering scientific excellence, fostering ongoing communication between scientists and policy-makers, tailoring communication to policy-makers, and disseminating the policy-relevant outcomes in a timely and targeted manner. Based on the FFESC experience, we suggest best practices for engaging policy-makers in research and scientists in policy development and adaptation.

scholarly journals Northern Forest Management: Ends and Means

1970 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 210-213
Author(s):  
Peter H. Pearse
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Economic Incentives ◽  
Northern Forest ◽  
The Public ◽  
Total Capital ◽  
Management Policies ◽  
The Government ◽  
Forest Values ◽  
The One

Forest management is a means to an end, not an end in itself. In the past, there has been much confusion among foresters over the objectives of forest management; our conventional wisdom has been based, variously, on the goals of full utilization, maximum wood growth, and equal annual harvests. These are technological goals, and our profession is beginning to recognize that they are not adequate guides to the design of forest management policies in the public interest.Forests are part of the total capital stock of our society. In the context of our economy as a whole, forests, along with all our other resources, contribute to our standard and quality of life. Good management involves using forests, and investing in them, in such a way and to such a degree that they will contribute the most social benefit.Maximization of the values generated by forest resources provides the only consistent and workable criterion for judging the appropriateness of management policies and practices. In the light of this objective, problems relating to the best standards of utilization, siviculture, and rates of harvest can be analyse using well established economic techniques. Optimum management will thus very widely in different circumstances, and will require flexibility of standards.In Canada's northern forests there is still time to avoid the mistakes we have made in management policies elsewhere. The framework of public policy within which private harvesters must operate is important; not only because forests are so important to our economy but also because the government is the landlord over most of our forests. Tenure policies must take account of the need for assured supplies of timber to justify heavy investment in utilization plant on the one hand, and the economic value of private competition for public timber on the other. Stumpage charges should be designed to encourage efficient utilization standards. Once the objective of maximizing forest values is accepted, the economic incentives of private harvesters can be harnessed to serve the public interest.

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