1Institute of Forest Ecology and Environmental Protection, Chinese Academy of Forestry, Beijing 100091, PR China 2Liaoning Academy of Forestry, Shenyang 110032, PR China 3School of Agriculture and Biology, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, PR China 4School of Forestry, Beijing Forestry University, Beijing 100083, PR China 5Ontario Forest Research Institute, Ontario Ministry of Nat...

2 Director, Forestry and Land Use programme, International Institute for Environment and Development, Edinburgh, UK 3 Assistant Professor, Faculdade de Agronomia e Engenharia Florestal, University of Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique 4 Coordinator Planning, National Forestry Authority, Kampala, Uganda 5 Coordinator, Civic Response, Accra, Ghana 6 Assistant Director of Forestry, Department of...

Publishing agro-environmental resources to a linked open data (LOD) cloud requires publishers to adopt a set of universally recognized linked data principles. These principles, along with semantic annotations based on shared domain ontologies can ensure the semantic integration of agro-environmental resources. In this paper we present a resource-publishing system, called AGROPub, that we develo...

This paper poses and tests a new model of the location of plants that process ubiquitously supplied ‘von Thünen’ inputs such as raw farm output. The new model rationalizes why agro-industry is city-located but resource-oriented. It demonstrates the significance of relative transport costs in agroindustry location. Furthermore, we present a unprecedented direct test/empirical confirmation of est...

This paper examines the origins, spread and practices of professional forestry in Southeast Asia, focusing on key sites in colonial and post-colonial Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand. Part 1, in an earlier issue of this journal, challenged popular and scholarly accounts of colonial forestry as a set of simplifying practices exported from Europe and applied in the European colonies. We showed th...

Neurological findings were examined in 186 forestry workers with a mean exposure to chain saw vibration of 16.6 hours. The prevalence of active vibration induced white fingers was 5%, parethaesias of the hands 53%, and muscle weakness 13%. Clinical polyneuropathy was observed in 16 forestry workers in the hands (7.5%) which did not correlate with alcohol consumption. Seventy nine forestry worke...

Agro-forest management policy is one of the most trending issues in Indonesia under dynamics circumstances regional autonomy. Regional autonomy has been recognized formal governance system Republic through Governance Law 5/1972 and Village 5/1979. A strong political reform following deep economic crisis 1998 forced Indonesian President Suharto to step down, new government accommodate agendas, i...

this study determined the situation of rural tourism and agro-tourism in tehran province as well as the expected economic impacts of agro-tourism development on it. in this research, we used documental research method and field research based on questionnaires and face-to-face interview. it was found out that despite different tourist attractions in rural areas of tehran province, tourist arriv...