Over the last decades, Vietnam has seen substantial shifts in forest landscape uses and associated livelihoods. We document livelihood transformations Nam Dong, a mountainous district of Central Vietnam, where land have changed from utilisation products natural forests shifting cultivation (swidden agriculture) to acacia tree-dominated plantation forestry. Forestry policies (forestland allocati...

Abstract Social forestry is one of the programs delivered by Indonesian government to distribute forest ownership society. The program consisted village forest, customary community a people plantation, and partnership for forestry. This study merely focused on in Indonesia. purpose this research analyze context problems during implementation process permit delivery forests Gunungkidul, Yogyakar...

A multi-agent model of social and environmental complexity of deforestation was developed for the Caparo Forest Reserve, Venezuela. It includes three types of agents: settlers, government, and lumber concessionaires. Settlers represent people of limited economic resources that deforest and occupy reserve land to grow crops and eventually claim property rights of this land. Their agricultural pr...

We present an in-depth analysis of natural forest management practices in Costa Rica based on a new historical forestry GIS database encompassing five conservation regions in the country where selective logging has been prevalent for the last 18 years. Natural forest management refers to the selective logging practices for the production of timber in natural forest ecosystems. The study conside...

In this article, we introduce China's major forest types and discuss the historical development of forest management in China, including actions taken over the last decade toward achieving SMF. Major challenges are identified, and a strategy for SFM implementation in China is presented. China's forests consist of a wide variety of types with distinctive distributional patterns shaped by complex...

Dramatic or mundane, passive or active, confrontations and negotiations, over natural resources, between the colonizer and the colonized manifest repudiation, uprisings, rebellions and even organized violent confrontationist movements. The basis of scientific forestry that allowed the state to commercially exploit the forests, putting curbs on the local use of subsistence, led to the formation ...

Karim Saei was born in 1910, in Mashhad, north eastern Iran, where he got his diploma. He left behind his homeland for Karaj city to study at the Faculty of Agriculture of Tehran University. He passed his course very successfully and received his B.Sc. degree in 1931 followed by a scholarship to study for 2 years at Agronomic Institute in Montpellier, France. He graduated M.Sc. with excellent g...

a Department of Forestry and Natural Resource Management, State University of New York, College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry (SUNY-ESF), One Forestry Drive, Illick Hall 340, 13210 Syracuse, NY, USA b Department of Electrical Engineering and Director, Center for Research in Energy and Energy Conservation (CREEC), Faculty of Technology, Makerere University Uganda, P. O. Box 7062, Kampal...