Urban Forestry Legislation in Ontario

Quality legislation: lessons for Ontario from abroad.

While the Excellent Care for All Act, 2010 (ECFA Act) provides a comprehensive approach to stimulating quality improvement in healthcare, there are other examples of legislations articulating strategies aimed at the same goal but proposing different approaches. This paper reviews quality of care legislations in the Netherlands, the United States, England and Australia, compares those pieces of ...

Urban Forestry Research in Europe: an Overview

Community forestry and its implications for Northern Ontario

Lcs gouvcrnements provinciaux du Canadas' inleressent de plus en plus a la forestcric communautair~. Dc nombreuses colIcctivite.'i a vocation unique vivcnt cntourees dc forets dans Ics regions scptenlrionales des provinces et se lournent mainlcnant vers les ressources forestieres pour diversifier leur Cconomie et aueindre unc CCrlainc stabilite. En mcme lemps qu'augn1Cnle I'intcrel pour cclle q...

Ontario ’ s Forestry Research Partnership : Progress and next steps

This paper provides a synthesis of a 2-phase approach used by the Canadian Ecology Centre – Forestry Research Partnership (CEC-FRP) to implement adaptive management on 6 forest management units in northeastern Ontario. It also provides a summary of a self evaluation of the partnership using a set of attributes deemed necessary to successfully implement adaptive management (i.e., leadership; ali...

Applying Ecosystem Management to Urban Forestry

During the 1990s, the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service shifted from commodity production management to ecosystem-based management (Overbay, 1992). Although definitions of ecosystem-based mana-gement vary by objectives, the principle had four primary elements: (1) maintaining viable populations of native species, (2) representing native ecosystems across their range of natu...