scholarly journals Forestry's Future Frustrated or A Condensed History of Canadian Foresters' Concern for Forest Renewal

1986 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 35-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. S. Fellows
Keyword(s):  
Forest Policy ◽  
National Forest ◽  
History Of ◽  
Forest Renewal ◽  
National Forest Policy

A 40-year review of the concerns of Canadian foresters over the lack of a national forest policy in general and over failure to provide adequately for forest renewal in particular, as told chiefly in the words of contemporary writings and speeches.

16 Jahre waldpolitisch relevante Prozesse im Buwal / Bafu | 16 years of processes at the SAEFL / FOEN relevant to forest policy

2007 ◽  
Vol 158 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
Werner Schärer
Keyword(s):  
Federal Government ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Forest Service ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
National Forest ◽  
Organisational Structure ◽  
Service Organisation ◽  
Federal Structure ◽  
National Forest Policy

At the level of the federal government, since 1990 there have been at least 16 important processes relevant to forest policy. These processes mainly ran in parallel, but were in part contradictory,sometimes they were complementary and synergies were also achieved. The processes are divided into three main categories (processes triggered by nature, by the surroundings and self-initiated processes). They are briefly described and evaluated from a personal, forest policy point of view. Seven points for thought are used to show what needs to be taken into account in future national forest policy. Finally the Swiss forest service organisation is compared with another federal structure of an NGO, namely the organisational structure of Pro Senectute, the author's new area of work.

National Forest Policy in India: Critique of Targets and Implementation

2010 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aditya Kumar Joshi ◽  
Pallavi Pant ◽  
Prasant Kumar ◽  
Amarnath Giriraj ◽  
Pawan Kumar Joshi
Keyword(s):  
Forest Policy ◽  
National Forest ◽  
National Forest Policy

National Forest Policy (1988): New direction in forest management

Social Change ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 33 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 192-203
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Ecosystem Functions ◽  
National Forest ◽  
Rural People ◽  
Colonial Era ◽  
Land Protection ◽  
Technological Basis ◽  
National Forest Policy ◽  
The Way

The National Forest Policy (NFP) of 1988 marked a watershed in the way forests were perceived by the State Forest Departments. Recognising the serious limitations of the exclusivist approach towards forest conservation that had been followed since independence, the NFP paved the way for bringing in more participatory means of conserving forests and biodiversity in which involvement of local people was a key ingredient. The need for meeting forest product requirements of rural people was, for the first time, given primacy over maximisation of timber revenues, which had been the primary focus of governmental forest management since the colonial era. New areas of i in the NFP included conservation of ecosystem functions such as watershed protection and biodiversity protection, restoration of degraded forests, provision of alternatives to forest produce to rural people, extension of forestry to non-forest land, protection of the rights and concessions of forest-dwelling people and institution of Environmental Impact Assessments as a prerequisite for development projects in the country. The importance given in the NFP, to development of a scientific and technological basis for interventions in the forestry sector, is also significant. The NFP forms the basis for several conservation programmes and initiatives that are being undertaken in the country today, such as Joint Forest Management (see Saigal, 2003 in this issue)-Editor.

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