Economics of REDD+ and Community Forestry

Promoting Community Forestry Enterprises in National REDD+ Strategies: A Business Approach

Community forestry and related small and medium forest enterprises (SMFEs) can contribute towards the achievement of REDD+ goals, since they can promote sustainable use and conservation of forests and, therefore, a reduction in forest-related carbon emissions. Additionally, they can improve the quality of life of forest-dependant people by generating alternative sources of income and employment...

langauge needs analysis of undergraduate business management and economics students

the aim of conducting this study was to investigate the foreign language learning needs of undergraduate economics students and business management students in faculties of social sciences of alzahra and azad naragh university. in the study, which was designed on the basis of a qualitative-quantitative basis using interviews and questionnaires, 146 female undergraduate business management as we...

Forestry Economics and Development in Malaysia

The study attempts to fill a gap in Malaysian forestry economics, an area relatively less probed compared to the other important primary commodities of Malaysia. The core of the thesis are two econometric studies. The first concerns estimating supply and demand elasticities of the three main Malaysian wood products sawlogs, sawnwood and plywood. Demand is split up into export and home demand to...

Professionalisation and Knowledge in Nepalese Community Forestry

Comparing Community Forestry in Canada and Mexico

Th e popularity of community-based natural resource management has grown both within British Columbia’s forests and around the world. It is oft en assumed that increased local control of resources will enable more ecologically sensitive forestry practices, but this is not necessarily the case. Th rough case study examples of “earlier” community forest models in British Columbia and Mexico, the ...