scholarly journals Sustainable Forest Management in Rural Southern Brazil: Exploring Participatory Forest Management Planning

10.5772/30293 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andr Eduardo Biscaia de Lacerda ◽  
Maria Augusta Doetzer Rosot ◽  
Afonso Figueiredo ◽  
Marilice Cordeiro ◽  
Evelyn Roberta ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Southern Brazil ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Participatory Forest Management

Evaluating the transition to sustainable forest management in Ontario’s Crown Forest Sustainability Act and forest management planning manuals from 1994 to 2009

2015 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 436-443 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Robson ◽  
Troy Davis
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Policy Learning ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Forest Sustainability ◽  
Learning And Change ◽  
Crown Forest ◽  
Range Of Values

The purpose of the paper is to analyse the extent of policy change and learning in the 20 years following the implementation of Ontario’s forest sustainability legislation. Extent of policy learning and change towards sustainable forest management are measured using a combination of content, co-occurrence, and textual analysis of the previous Crown Timber Act and the new Crown Forest Sustainability Act, as well as the latter’s 1996 and 2009 forest planning manuals. There were four key findings. First, policy change towards sustainable forest management has been limited. Second, although there was an increased number of values mentioned in new legislation and planning manuals, the frequency of timber values remained dominant. Third, although integration occurred among a greater range of values, integration with timber values continued to dominate. Fourth, with respect to policy learning, the achievement of sustainable forest management is now explicit and judged based on evidence regarding the inclusion of a range of values beyond timber. The paper concludes that the transition to the more integrative and responsive policies of sustainable forest management remains a work in progress.

scholarly journals Personal and group forest values and perceptions of groups' forest values in northwestern Ontario

2006 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 512-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Lee ◽  
Shashi Kant
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Cognitive Mapping ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Aboriginal People ◽  
Statistical Tests ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
Northwestern Ontario ◽  
Forest Values

With the recent involvement of a greater diversity of groups working in forest management planning, the identification and understanding of people's forest values and their perceptions of one another's values may be a promising approach to sustainable forest management. This study identifies and analyzes the forest values and perceptions of the members of four groups, Aboriginal People, Environmental Non-Government Organizations (ENGOs), the forest industry, and the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources (OMNR), in northwestern Ontario. Conceptual Content Cognitive Mapping (3CM) was used to identify people's forest values and perceptions and dominant forest value themes were created using hierarchical clustering. Inter-group and intra-group similarities and differences among the rankings of participants' forest values and their perceptions were determined through various non-parametric statistical tests. Participants' perceptions about each group were generally similar, which included the two most prominent themes to be similar across all participants' perceptions of each group. Although the perceptions for a particular group were similar across the participant groups, they differed substantially with that participant group's personal ranking of the forest value themes. Key words: forest values, perceptions, stakeholders, cognitive mapping, sustainable forest management, collaborative decision-making

scholarly journals Bi-Level Participatory Forest Management Planning Supported by Pareto Frontier Visualization

2019 ◽  
Vol 66 (4) ◽  
pp. 490-500
Author(s):  
S Marques ◽  
V A Bushenkov ◽  
A V Lotov ◽  
M Marto ◽  
J G Borges
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Pareto Frontier ◽  
Landscape Management ◽  
Master Problem ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Decomposition Approach ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Participatory Forest Management ◽  
Interactive Decision Maps

Abstract This research addresses the problem of forested landscape management planning in contexts characterized by multiple ecosystem services and multiple stakeholders. A new methodology for participatory landscape-level forest management is proposed. Specifically, a bilevel representation is used, whereas models of subsystems are used for constructing an integrated model of the master problem. Participatory workshops and interactive visualization of the Pareto frontier are used to support the solution of the multi-objective optimization upper- and lower-level problems. The visualization is implemented by a technique—Interactive Decision Maps—that displays interactively the Pareto frontier in the form of decision maps, that is, collections of the objectives’ tradeoff curves. Since the upper-level problem may be characterized by a large number of decision variables, we compare the Pareto frontier generated by the Interactive Decision Maps technique with the Pareto frontier generated by a decomposition approach that builds from the Pareto frontiers of the lower-level subproblems. The approach supports further the negotiation between upper- and lower-level goals. Results are discussed for a large-scale application in a forested landscape in northwest Portugal.

scholarly journals Hierarchical forest management planning and sustainable forest management in the boreal forest

2001 ◽  
Vol 77 (6) ◽  
pp. 998-1005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Tittler ◽  
Christian Messier ◽  
Philip J. Burton
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Boreal Forest ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Forest Policy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Hierarchical Systems ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Planning Framework

In keeping with international efforts to encourage sustainable forest management, new legislation, regulations, and certification criteria have been brought into effect across boreal regions of the world in the past decade or less. These initiatives have established hierarchical systems of forest management planning that consider multiple uses of the forest and various aspects of sustainable forest management at different scales. We describe the systems established in Quebec, Ontario, Saskatchewan, Alberta, and British Columbia, Russia, Finland, and Sweden. Most jurisdictions employ some form of three-level planning framework, in which strategic, tactical, and operational plans and considerations are presented with successively greater detail and spatial explicitness. However, planning scales and time horizons vary considerably, as does the level of consideration given to biodiversity and social concerns. We examine these systems in the context of sustainable forest management, raising a number of questions to be addressed in future research, adaptive management, and policy reform. In particular, we note (1) a need of new landscape and regional planning tools to evaluate the long-term and large-scale impacts of various land uses and (2) a general lack of responsiveness to global carbon and climate change concerns. Key words: forest management planning, sustainable forest management, boreal forest, forest policy, planning hierarchies, hierarchical planning

scholarly journals Assessment of Indicators for Climate Smart Management in Mountain Forests

2021 ◽  
pp. 59-105
Author(s):  
M. del Río ◽  
H. Pretzsch ◽  
A. Bončina ◽  
A. Avdagić ◽  
K. Bielak ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Adaptive Learning ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Management Unit ◽  
Mountain Forest ◽  
Conceptual Approach ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Trade Offs ◽  
Future Challenges

AbstractThis chapter addresses the concepts and methods to assess quantitative indicators of Climate-Smart Forestry (CSF) at stand and management unit levels. First, the basic concepts for developing a framework for assessing CSF were reviewed. The suitable properties of indicators and methods for normalization, weighting, and aggregation were summarized. The proposed conceptual approach considers the CSF assessment as an adaptive learning process, which integrates scientific knowledge and participatory approaches. Then, climate smart indicators were applied on long-term experimental plots to assess CSF of spruce-fir-beech mixed mountain forest. Redundancy and trade-offs between indicators, as well as their sensitivity to management regimes, were analyzed with the aim of improving the practicability of indicators. At the management unit level, the roles of indicators in the different phases of forest management planning were reviewed. A set of 56 indicators were used to assess their importance for management planning in four European countries. The results indicated that the most relevant indicators differed from the set of Pan-European indicators of sustainable forest management. Finally, we discussed results obtained and future challenges, including the following: (i) how to strengthen indicator selections and CSF assessment at stand level, (ii) the potential integration of CSF indicators into silvicultural guidelines, and (iii) the main challenges for integrating indicators into climate-smart forest planning.

scholarly journals Current status and future directions of traditional ecological knowledge in forest management: a review

2008 ◽  
Vol 84 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-243 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne Cheveau ◽  
Louis Imbeau ◽  
Pierre Drapeau ◽  
Louis Bélanger
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
First Nations ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Traditional Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Community Values

In the last 25 years, the number of published studies that refer to traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) has constantly increased, with now more than 200 papers published each year. The objective of this review was to determine how this knowledge is used in current forest management around the world, and how local communities are involved in forest management planning. Published papers from 1983 to 2005 relating to TEK were found using the ISI Web of Science database. Despite the growing amount of literature published on TEK, we found only 21 studies that specifically address forest management per se. In these studies, TEK integration took different paths: using traditional management rules as a framework (five studies), using value maps to adapt practices in time and space (three studies), or by a zoning process that divides the land into areas in which different land uses are emphasized (six studies). Some community involvements are “active” with co-management committees composed of stakeholders (including community members), each having a voice; some are “passive” with external managers using criteria and indicators previously developed from community values and objectives. Although important changes in mentality and firm political decisions are still required before more efficient partnership between TEK and western science is reached in forest management planning, our review showed that Canadian initiatives proposed promising processes that could ensure better TEK incorporation and improved community participation. Key words: traditional ecological knowledge, TEK, sustainable forest management, community participation, first nations, forest management planning

scholarly journals Embedding science and innovation in forest management: Recent experiences at Millar Western in west-central Alberta

2008 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 301-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laird Van Damme ◽  
Peter N Duinker ◽  
Dennis Quintilio
Keyword(s):  
Forest Management ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Sustainable Forest Management ◽  
Fire Risk ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Management Planning ◽  
Forest Management Planning ◽  
Forest Management Plan ◽  
Science Innovation

Research from scientists embedded within Millar Western’s forest management planning process over the last 14 years was enabled by strong corporate leadership, cooperation by Alberta’s Ministry of Sustainable Resource Development, and funding by the Forest Resource Improvement Association of Alberta. Results of the supporting research are described in the articles that follow and are important contributions to Canada’s commitment to sustainable forest management (SFM). The process is as noteworthy as the results and is the subject of this paper. When scientists and practitioners work closely together in developing a forest management plan, as they have in this case, there is a much greater opportunity for science-based emergent strategies to be created and applied through the personal interactions among scientists and practitioners. For example, input from the science-based collaborators influenced the harvest schedule in the detailed forest management plan to minimize negative effects on water flow, biodiversity and fire risk. This approach to SFM is one of many being developed in Alberta. The diversity of input has clear benefits, not the least of which is the maintenance of innovation and intellectual enterprise in support of SFM. Key words: forest management planning, forest science, innovation, Alberta, biodiversity, timber supply, guidelines

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