scholarly journals One strategy at work for more than 260 reasons

2005 ◽  
Vol 81 (1) ◽  
pp. 88-91
Author(s):  
Jeff Young
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The United States ◽  
Forest Community ◽  
Policy Framework ◽  
National Forest ◽  
Management Concepts

Canadians are taking action to advance sustainable forest management with the National Forest Strategy (NFS) 2003–2008, A Sustainable Forest: The Canadian Commitment. This national policy framework reaffirms Canadians' long-term vision and defines strategic targets to be achieved by the forest community at large. Seen as an international model, the NFS serves to establish partnerships and to promote policies as encouraged by the Final Statement issued at the XII World Forestry Congress. Canada and the United States of America have national forest programmes that are advancing a sustainable North American forest and are contributing to the well-being of the global forest. Stronger mechanisms and liaisons between developed countries with such programmes will help Canada and other likeminded countries to push sustainable forest management concepts even further as they evolve. Key words: global forest convention, international network, national forest programme, National Forest Strategy Coalition, sector roundtable

scholarly journals Klimawandel als Prüfstein für die Waldbewirtschaftung | Climate change as a touchstone for forest management

2008 ◽  
Vol 159 (10) ◽  
pp. 316-325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Rigling ◽  
Peter Brang ◽  
Harald Bugmann ◽  
Norbert Kräuchi ◽  
Thomas Wohlgemuth ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Forest Fires ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Heat Waves ◽  
Early Response ◽  
Extreme Weather Events ◽  
Direct Effects ◽  
Adaptation Measures ◽  
Weather Events ◽  
Management Concepts

Climate scenarios predict for Switzerland until 2050 a general warming of 2°C. This warming is likely to feature moister winters, dryer summers and an increase of extreme weather events – hot spells like in summer 2003 could occur every few years. If these pojections become true, Swiss forests will be fundamentally altered by the direct effects of climate such as droughts, heat waves or storms. In addition, they will be affected by indirect effects such as diseases, pests or forest fires that may be even more significant than the direct effects. Large uncertainties still exist with respect to the degree and rate of the expected climatic changes. Nevertheless, forestry should not wait until absolute certainty arises, which will likely never be the case anyway. Forestry must act proactively, butin a cautious and scientifically sound manner. Based on the paradigm of adaptive forest management, we propose a concept for a stepwise alignment of forest management practices with the overall aim to increase the resistance and resilience of Swiss forests and to support ongoing early response processes. The measures proposed can be divided into 1) the analysis of the current state of the forests, 2) short-termed adaptation measures of forest management, and finally 3) the development of adapted management concepts that explicitly take into account climatic change.

scholarly journals Private Forest Owners’ Social Economic Profiles Weakly Influence Forest Management Conceptualizations

Forests ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 956 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrej Ficko
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Latent Variables ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Forest Owner ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Private Forest ◽  
Private Forest Owners ◽  
Forest Owners ◽  
Management Concepts

Although several private forest owner studies have dealt with how private forest owners understand forest management, little is known about the determinants of specific forest management concepts. The study expands previous latent variable models of the perception of forest management by European private forest owners by looking at how age, income, education, annual cut, and holding size and type influence specific understandings of forest management. We applied a multiple indicators multiple causes (MIMIC) structural equation model on a representative sample of 754 private forest owners from Slovenia. The MIMIC model confirmed the influence of six covariates on three concepts of forest management: the maintenance concept, the ecosystem-centered concept, and the economics-centered concept. The strongest determinants of perception were education and holding type. The maintenance concept was predominantly associated with less educated older full-time or part-time farmers working on smaller family farms and doing regular cuts. The perception of forest management as an economics-centered activity increased with increased education and dependence on income from intensive cuts. The ecosystem-centered concept was most strongly associated with younger, better-educated owners with smaller holdings and, surprisingly, not to non-farmers but to small-scale family farmers. However, the proportion of the variance of latent variables explained by the six covariates was low, ranging from 2.4% to 5.1%. Taking into account the influence of education and holding type on private forest owners’ perception of forest management, by increasing the level of education and raising the proportion of absentee owners in Europe, we expect a shift from the maintenance concept toward either an economics-centered or ecosystem-oriented concept for forest management. Despite the weak influence of private forest owners’ social economic profiles on forest management conceptualizations, governments should be aware of the trend and actively seek to prevent the polarization of forest management concepts.

scholarly journals Forest Management for Carbon Sequestration and Climate Adaptation

2019 ◽  
Vol 118 (1) ◽  
pp. 86-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Todd A Ontl ◽  
Maria K Janowiak ◽  
Christopher W Swanston ◽  
Jad Daley ◽  
Stephen Handler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Climate Adaptation ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Climate Impacts ◽  
Forest Carbon ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Carbon Management ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Management Actions ◽  
Management Concepts

Abstract The importance of forests for sequestering carbon has created widespread interest among land managers for identifying actions that maintain or enhance carbon storage in forests. Managing for forest carbon under changing climatic conditions underscores a need for resources that help identify adaptation actions that align with carbon management. We developed the Forest Carbon Management Menu to help translate broad carbon management concepts into actionable tactics that help managers reduce risk from expected climate impacts in order to meet desired management goals. We describe examples of real-world forest-management planning projects that integrate climate change information with this resource to identify actions that simultaneously benefit forest carbon along with other project goals. These examples highlight that the inclusion of information on climate vulnerability, considering the implications of management actions over extended timescales, and identifying co-benefits for other management goals can reveal important synergies in managing for carbon and climate adaptation.

scholarly journals Kurzumtriebsplantagen – Ergänzung oder Widerspruch zur nachhaltigen Waldwirtschaft? | Short-term rotation plantations – supplement or in contradiction to sustainable forest management?

2008 ◽  
Vol 159 (6) ◽  
pp. 152-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter A. Schmidt ◽  
Denie Gerold
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Management Strategy ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Agricultural Landscape ◽  
Agricultural Land ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Agricultural Landscapes ◽  
Intensive Management ◽  
Short Term ◽  
Management Concepts

Sustainability in forestry does not only cover wood production but it serves all functions of the forest. The increasing demand for wood urges a reconsideration of management concepts. To further ensure the principle of sustainability with the forest as a natural tool for resources, all potentials of the cultural landscape for woody biomass production are to be considered with the strategies for a sustainable development. Such a potential is offered by short-rotation plantations at agricultural sites. Management of such plantations in the agricultural landscape must meet minimum standards in respect to ecology and economy but cannot fulfill all criteria for a sustainable forest management. The less intensive management of such plantations compared to other agricultural land-use systems, has favorable effects on the ecosystem services of the landscape, ecological efficiency of the natural environment and biodiversity. According to a differentiated management strategy for woody stands in forest and agricultural landscapes, short-term rotation plantations as an intensive management strategy for woody ecosystems as well as strictly protected areas for nature conservation and forest regulation consider the concept of partial segregation. The allocation of wood by short-term rotation plantations reduces the pressure on the sustainable, ecologically oriented forest management as an integration strategy which should be implemented on the predominant forested area in the future.

scholarly journals Forest Management as an Element of Environment Development

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 17-27
Author(s):  
Roman Jaszczak ◽  
Piotr Gołojuch ◽  
Sandra Wajchman-Świtalska ◽  
Mariusz Miotke
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Environment Protection ◽  
Forest Environment ◽  
Forest Model ◽  
Historical Outline ◽  
Management Concepts ◽  
Forest Utilization

Abstract The implementation of goals of modern forestry requires a simultaneous consideration of sustainable development of forests, protection, needs of the environment development, as well as maintaining a balance between functions of forests. In the current multifunctional forest model, rational forest management assumes all of its tasks as equally important. Moreover, its effects are important factors in the nature and environment protection. The paper presents legal conditions related to the definitions of forest management concepts and sustainable forest management. Authors present a historical outline of human’s impact on the forest and its consequences for the environment. The selected aspects of forest management (eg. forest utilization, afforestation, tourism and recreation) and their role in the forest environment have been discussed.

scholarly journals An ecological rationale for sustainable forest management concepts at Riverside Forest Products, southcentral British Columbia

2004 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-348 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert G D'Eon ◽  
Daryll Hebert ◽  
Stephen L Viszlai
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Ecological Theory ◽  
Forest Products ◽  
Ecological Indicators ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Management Concepts ◽  
Landscape Level ◽  
Forest Managers

Riverside Forest Products (Kelowna, British Columbia) has embraced a sustainable forest management approach for the management of one its forest tenures—Tree Farm License 49. This document discusses the rationale behind many of the concepts within this approach in the context of current ecological theory. We focus specifically on the following concepts: (1) forest retention, (2) ecosystem representation, (3) ecological contributions from unharvested forests, (4) zoning and the TRIAD approach, (5) stand-level habitat elements and landscape-level features, and (6) ecological indicators. This document provides an example of the application of current ecological theory within a commercial forestry operation in Canada and is thus broadly applicable to foresters, forest managers, and researchers in most jurisdictions. Key words: British Columbia, criteria and indicators, ecological representation, forest retention, sustainable forest management, Riverside Forest Products, TRIAD

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