The AA. consider the role played by forest struggles and forest intellectuals in the rewriting of India's forestpolicies. They also evaluate the utility of a moral economy framework in guiding joint forest management policies. They draw on village
-level fieldwork to highlight the value of an approach to the management of Degraded Protected Forests that offer a key role to active and informed forest citizens.
Natural forest, settlement and economical development on Czechoslovak territory. Forest protection policy and the survey of particular forest protected areas. (MS).
The area of the tropical forests has been shrinking fast in the last decades and, moreover, considerable parts of the remaining natural forests are in a process of degradation, mainly due to overexploitation, intensified pasture farming and frequent
fires. This process of decline in large parts of the tropical forest belt concerns more and more the public and politicians in the industrialized countries as well as increasingly also in parts of the developing countries. - (L'A.).
with the terms of a concession contract. Noncompliance is taken to result in deforestation. An optmal decision policy is employed to construct payoff incentives which encourage compliance.
Deforestation and forestpolicy in the Lesser Himalayan Kumaun: impacts on peasant women and tribal populations
Colonial period ; Deforestation ; Environmental management ; Forest ; Forestpolicy ; Himalaya ; India ; Kumaon ; Land use ; Mountain ; Rural community ; UttarPradesh ; Woman
More than 5000 rural settlements in the Lesser Himalayan Kumaun of India have overexploited the forests, especially since Independence. The cast of characters in this drama played out today are peasant women, the Chipko movement, the timber mafia
Third World meets First World in the West Coast region of the South Island : possum hunting and the role of social forestry in indigenous forest management
Environment ; Fauna ; Forest ; Forest resources ; Forestry ; New Zealand ; Resource management ; South Island
The radical change in forestpolicy has profound implications for the West Coast, and an alternative to the conventional forest management framework is required which recognises the Government's desire to protect the indigenous forest cover, yet
The Russian forest sector: production, consumption, and export prospects
Consumption ; Economic potential ; Export ; Forestpolicy ; Forest resources ; Forestry ; Logging ; Production ; Russia ; Stand treatment ; Wood
This sector is described at the country level of detail, including a description of the growth of the forest resource over time and of the historical utilization of the forest resource, with a focus on the shares of output allocated for domestic
consumption and for export. The resource available for the future then is presented in terms of economic accessibility. Longer- term export opportunities are identified using a scenario analysis generated by the Russian Forest Sector Assessment Model.
This paper addressed specific questions within the much broader discussion on policies to reduce tropical deforestation and degradation in developing countries. The short-to medium-run consequences of resource policies and trade liberalization
An analysis of recent state conservation policy and the complexities of local control of forest land in northern Thailand. Author holds that government agencies resist allowing ethnic minorities to have a role in conservation. The government
maintains that shifting cultivation has only a negative impact on the environment, disregarding the variety of local practices. The state has striven to extend its control over forests, and the implementation of the state's conservation policy has had many
Human impact on some forests of the Middle Hills of Nepal. Part 5. Comparisons, concepts, and some policy implications
Deforestation in this region is not recent nor was it the result of peasant ignorance, mismanagement or overpopulation. Rather, it is the Nepalese state that has seen the forest as a convertible, not a renewable, resource. - (DWG)
Re-claiming place : the Millenium Forest, Borgie, North Sutherland, Scotland
Appropriation of land ; Cultural studies ; Place ; Policy ; Scotland ; Semiotics of space ; Sense of belonging ; Space ; Territorial identity ; United Kingdom
The A. explores the metaphorical and material significance of this Forest in the context of an emerging movement for the collective purchase of private estates in the crofting areas of Scotland. The Forest is constituted as a site through which
a culture of resistance is mobilised and through which an inclusive sense of belonging to place is imagined. The A. connects the poetics of resistance of the Forest with the politics of territorial land claims of the North Sutherland Community Forestry Trust.
Simulation on the dynamics of forest area changes in Northeast China
China ; Econometric model ; Forest ; Forestry ; Land use ; North-Eastern China ; Production ; Resource management ; Simulation ; Vegetation dynamics
To explore the dynamics of forest area change in Northeast China, an econometric model is developed which is composed of three equations identifying forestry production, conversion from open forest to closed forest and conversion from other land
uses to closed forest so as to explore the impacts on the forest area changes from demographic, social, economic, location and geophysical factors. On this basis, the AA. employ the Dynamics ofLand System (DLS) model to simulate land-use conversions
between forest area and non-forest cover and the land-use conversions within the sub-classes of forest area for the period 2000–2020 under business as usual scenario, environmental protection scenario and economic growth scenario. The simulation results
show that forest area will expand continuously and there exist various kinds of changing patterns for the sub-classes of forest area.
[b2] Center for Chinese Agricultural Policy, CAS, Beijing, Chine
Economic instruments for tropical forests (the Congo Basin case)
Africa ; Central Africa ; Congo Basin ; Developing countries ; Drainage basins ; Economic policy ; Forest economics ; Forest logging ; Forest planning ; Forest resource ; Forestry policy ; Incentive ; Industrialization ; Pricing ; Private sector
; Sustainable use ; Taxation ; Tropical forest ; Tropical zone ; Wood industry
Africa ; Africa central ; Aprovechamiento forestal ; Bosque tropical ; Cuenca Congo ; Cuenca hidrográfica ; Economía forestal ; Exploitación sustentable ; Explotación forestal ; Industria madera ; Industrialización ; Países en desarrollo ; Politica
forestal ; Política económica ; Recurso forestal ; Sector privado ; Tasación ; Zona tropical
forests and especially one of its most controversial aspects: logging. Drawing on economic theory and concrete examples mainly from Central Africa but also from south-east Asia, this book provides a pragmatic and stimulating view of the forestry policy
issues bound up with these new aspects of tropical forest management at the crossroads of economics and ecology.
to reform forestry policy so that forest resource user-groups could have a greater role in management. Data on income and expenditures from a periurban fuelwood-producing village show differential access to and dependence on forest resources for livelihood.
Forest ; Forestpolicy ; Forestry ; Portugal ; Stand treatment
L'évolution de la politique forestière au Portugal depuis le XVIIe siècle ; la formation de l'idéologie de la forestation ; la situation actuelle de la forêt portugaise.