scholarly journals Do partial cuts create forest complexity? A new approach to measuring the complexity of forest patterns using photographs and the mean information gain

2013 ◽  
Vol 89 (03) ◽  
pp. 340-349 ◽  
Author(s):  
Isabelle Witté ◽  
Daniel Kneeshaw ◽  
Christian Messier
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Forest Structure ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Information Gain ◽  
Structural Complexity ◽  
Secondary Forests ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Mean ◽  
Negative Impacts

Forest management generally simplifies forest structure and composition with some negative impacts in terms of biodiversity and resilience. Thus, maintaining structural complexity is increasingly cited as an objective of sustainable forest management. Different initiatives have been proposed to use partial cuts to increase the complexity of forests. Using “the length of description” of forest patterns as a novel measure of complexity in forests, the effects of two intensities of partial cuts were compared to those found in 34-year-old secondary forests and 86-year-old primary (post-fire) forests. Our results show that partial cuts increase the complexity of forest patterns as compared to mature and secondary forests.

Intensive forest management: Its relationship to AAC and ACE

2002 ◽  
Vol 78 (2) ◽  
pp. 255-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gordon Weetman
Keyword(s):  
British Columbia ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Good News ◽  
Public Confidence ◽  
Intensive Forest Management ◽  
Stable Operating ◽  
Reliable Performance ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
The Cost

Forest companies in British Columbia and Alberta have requested increases in allowable cuts on their public land tenures. The present regulatory framework about allowable cut effects is briefly outlined for each province. Seven requirements are proposed for granting an ACE, including consistent and reliable performance, risk assessments, stable operating and market conditions, robust age class distribution, government and public confidence, adequate benefits, and no unacceptable negative impacts on non-timber values. Some of the important "bad" and "good" news about allowable cuts is itemized, together with the drivers for change in sustainable forest management (SFM). It is concluded that professional and technical rigour is required in requests for an ACE. The cost of access to Crown timber has been increased by SFM and foresters and the industry are challenged to produce credible scenarios using new computer technologies, and then to carry them out. Key words: annual allowable cut, allowable cut effect, sustainable forest management, British Columbia,Alberta, forest regulation

scholarly journals Protection Forest: A New Dimension for Biodiversity Conservation, Sustainable Forest Management and Livelihood Improvement

1970 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 111-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prakash Lamsal
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Protected Areas ◽  
Biodiversity Conservation ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Participatory Approach ◽  
Landscape Approach ◽  
Protection Forest ◽  
Livelihood Improvement ◽  
Negative Impacts

Protected areas have greater role in the biodiversity conservation, sustainable forest management and livelihood improvement. Government of Nepal has different provisions for the management of such areas. Centralized conservation concept has broadened to participatory and people centred approach. Landscape approach is the latest one in this field. There are various benefits of the declaration of the protected forest, and initiatives are also being taken from the Governmental sector, but along with that several negative impacts are also being witnessed. A clear strategy is needed in this regard. This paper talks about the development of the participatory approach, government initiatives and positive and negative impacts and the challenges ahead.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/init.v4i0.5543The Initiation Vol.4 2011 111-114

Optimizing Forest Management for Atmospheric Carbon Sequestration

1969 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debra Zemanek
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Sequestration ◽  
Forest Management ◽  
Primary Productivity ◽  
Forest Structure ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Forest Biomass ◽  
Soil Nutrient ◽  
Forest Industry ◽  
Forest Disturbances ◽  
Ecosystem Carbon

Forest disturbances from logging activities in Canada’s boreal forest influence forest structure and nutrient cycling. Understanding the effect of Canadian forest industry practices on carbon uptake, storage, and release is important for forest management. Forest management is an important component of climate change mitigation through the removal of carbon from the atmosphere. Changes to forest structure and soil nutrient storage can have significant impacts on primary productivity. Primary productivity is a measure of the rate of carbon sequestration in forest biomass. Reviewing the literature on forest ecosystem carbon dynamics will inform on how to maximize carbon sequestration in forest management. Identifying forest industry practices that result in the highest rates of carbon sequestration is an important step for sustainable forest management.  

Altitudinal shifts in forest birds in a Mediterranean mountain range: causes and conservation prospects

2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-505 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOSÉ LUIS TELLERÍA
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Climate Warming ◽  
Forest Structure ◽  
Habitat Preferences ◽  
Elevation Gradient ◽  
Forest Birds ◽  
Tree Cover ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Mediterranean Mountains ◽  
The Mean

SummaryMediterranean mountains are biodiversity hotspots where northern species occur surrounded by drier and warmer lowlands. In this context, global warming is pushing these species to higher elevations. This paper assesses whether forest birds have experienced a shift upwards over the elevation gradient in the last 35 years in the Guadarrama Mountains (600–2,400 m asl; central Spain). Alternatively, the paper tests whether the reported shifts are related to changes in forest structure resulting from rural abandonment and/or forest management. To do this, sampling carried out from 1976 to 1980 along the elevation gradient was repeated in 2014–2015. In addition, the habitat preferences of birds were used to test if the elevation shifts were related to changes in forest structure. Results show that the mean range position of birds associated with tree cover shifted downwards, a trend supported by an increase in tree-dependent birds at mid-elevations. These trends suggest that an increase in tree cover has buffered the altitudinal shifts of forest birds predicted by climate warming. Results also suggest that proper forest management may improve the resilience of forest bird communities to the pervasive effects of climate warming.

scholarly journals On the development of a new approach to calculating parameters of the annual allowable cut for sustainable forest management

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 4-20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrey Victorovich Korosov ◽  
Andrey Victorovich Rodionov ◽  
Vladimir Evgenyevich Golubev ◽  
Alexander Juryevich Zarodov ◽  
Alexander Vladimirovich Markovsky
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
New Approach

scholarly journals The forest environmental frontier in Russia: Between sustainable forest management discourses and ‘wood mining’ practice

AMBIO ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Denis Dobrynin ◽  
Natalya Yakusheva Jarlebring ◽  
Irmeli Mustalahti ◽  
Metodi Sotirov ◽  
Elena Kulikova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Forest Conservation ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Resource Depletion ◽  
Primary Forest ◽  
Secondary Forests ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Intensive Forest Management ◽  
State Actors ◽  
Change Mitigation

AbstractWith 20% of the world’s forests, Russia has global potential in bioeconomy development, biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation. However, unsustainable forest management based on ‘wood mining’ reduces this potential. Based on document analysis, participant observations and interviews, this article shows how non-state actors—environmental NGOs and forest companies—address forest resource depletion and primary forest loss in Russia. We analyse two key interrelated forest discourses driven by non-state actors in Russia: (1) intensive forest management in secondary forests as a pathway towards sustained yield and primary forest conservation; (2) intact forest landscapes as a priority in primary forest conservation. We illustrate how these discourses have been integrated into policy debates, institutions and practices and discuss their relation to relevant global discourses. The article concludes that despite successful cases in conserving intact forest landscapes, there is still a frontier between sustainable forest management discourses and forestry practice in Russia.

BUNUK: PENGETAHUAN DAN PRAKTEK ATONI-METO DALAM TATA KELOLA HUTAN

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-96
Author(s):  
Yohanes Victor Lasi Usbobo
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Customary Law ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
Community Members ◽  
The Earth ◽  
Knowledge And Practice ◽  
West Timor

The implementation of todays forest management that based on formal-scientific knowledge and technical knowledge seems to fail to protect the forest from deforestation and the environmental damage. Decolonialisation of western knowledge could give an opportunity to identify and find the knowledge and practices of indigenous people in sustainable forest management. Forest management based on the indigenous knowledge and practices is believed easy to be accepted by the indigenous community due to the knowledge and practice is known and ‘lived’ by them. The Atoni Pah Meto from West Timor has their own customary law in forest management that is knows as Bunuk. In the installation of Bunuk, there is a concencus among the community members to protect and preserve the forest through the vow to the supreme one, the ruler of the earth and the ancestors, thus, bunuk is becoming a le’u (sacred). Thus, the Atoni Meto will not break the bunuk due to the secredness. Adapting the bunuk to the modern forest management in the Atoni Meto areas could be one of the best options in protecting and preserving the forest.

Nachhaltigkeit im Wald – vor und hinter der Welle der Globalisierung | Sustainable Forest Management – In Front and Behind the Wave of Globalization

2000 ◽  
Vol 151 (12) ◽  
pp. 502-507
Author(s):  
Christian Küchli
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Essential Element ◽  
Specific Situation ◽  
The South ◽  
The North ◽  
Time Space ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The Impact

Are there any common patterns in the transition processes from traditional and more or less sustainable forest management to exploitative use, which can regularly be observed both in central Europe and in the countries of the South (e.g. India or Indonesia)? Attempts were made with a time-space-model to typify those force fields, in which traditional sustainable forest management is undermined and is then transformed into a modern type of sustainable forest management. Although it is unlikely that the history of the North will become the future of the South, the glimpse into the northern past offers a useful starting point for the understanding of the current situation in the South, which in turn could stimulate the debate on development. For instance, the patterns which stand behind the conflicts on forest use in the Himalayas are very similar to the conflicts in the Alps. In the same way, the impact of socio-economic changes on the environment – key word ‹globalisation› – is often much the same. To recognize comparable patterns can be very valuable because it can act as a stimulant for the search of political, legal and technical solutions adapted to a specific situation. For the global community the realization of the way political-economic alliances work at the head of the ‹globalisationwave›can only signify to carry on trying to find a common language and understanding at the negotiation tables. On the lee side of the destructive breaker it is necessary to conserve and care for what survived. As it was the case in Switzerland these forest islands could once become the germination points for the genesis of a cultural landscape, where close-to-nature managed forests will constitute an essential element.

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