Forest Protection Policies

The Kökyar Protection Forest

S. Missall, M. Welp, N. Thevs, A. Abliz, and Ü. Halik Faculty of Forest and Environment, Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development, Eberswalde, Germany Institute of Botany and Landscape Ecology, University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany Key Laboratory of Oasis Ecology, College of Resources and Environmental Sciences, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, China Faculty of Mathematics and Geog...

Policies for encouraging forest restoration

Throughout the 20th century, many countries created national parks, forests, nature reserves, and sanctuaries to provide benefits that are underproduced on private lands . Private lands are now especially valuable for providing ecological services that publi c lands cannot provide, due to the increasing demands for all uses and the political and economic conflicts associated with allocating pub...

Protection of human subjects: policies and procedures.

Wilmington University has a functioning committee and procedures to review and approve all research involving human subjects. All human subjects research conducted by the University is reviewed under the auspices of the Human Subjects Review Committee (HSRC) of the Faculty Senate. Wilmington University is primarily a teaching institution rather than a research institution, therefore, the HSRC p...

Contingent Valuation of Forest Ecosystem Protection

In recent decades, concerns have arisen about the proper valuation of the world’s forests. While some of these concerns have to do with market distortions for timber products or inadequate data on non-timber forest products, an additional challenge is to uncover the economic worth of nonmarket services provided by forest ecosystems (Kramer et al. 1997). This has led to a growing number of publi...

National and International Policies to Control Illegal Forest Activities