Farmland abandonment takes place across the world due to socio-economic and ecological drivers. In Europe agricultural and environmental policies aim to prevent abandonment and halt ecological succession. Ecological rewilding has been recently proposed as an alternative strategy. We developed a framework to assess opportunities for rewilding across different dimensions of wilderness in Europe. ...

Green Infrastructure (GI) can be used as a framework for planning human settlements and guiding development away from natural areas that possess high ecological value and provide important Ecosystem Services for society’s development. In this paper, we present a GI Plan for Yesan County (Yesan GI Plan), a small shrinking city in the Republic of Korea. Yesan possesses very rich, but still fairly...

Green Infrastructure (GI) can be used as a framework for planning human settlements and guiding development away from natural areas that possess high ecological value and provide important Ecosystem Services for society’s development. In this paper, we present a GI Plan for Yesan County (Yesan GI Plan), a small shrinking city in the Republic of Korea. Yesan possesses very rich, but still fairly...

The implementation of social forestry, particularly at the local level, must ensure ecological, economic, and sustainability. sustainability level assessment from various Social Forestry Perhutanan Sosial (PS) schemes is crucial to recognize, evaluate, improve its level. Therefore, this study aims assess identify lever indicators Village Forest or Hutan Desa (HD) Community Kemasyarakatan (HKm) ...

The article substantiates the theoretical and methodological approaches to determining economic assessment of ecological social functions (services) forest resources in relation timber valuation, as well main directions for its use context sustainable spatial forestry. A variant classification is proposed, peculiarity which follows: are considered format resource space management space; present...

В статье анализируется состояние лесов Тверского лесничества на примере Кулицкого участкового лесничества. Выполнена интегральная оценка экологического состояния. При помощи ГИС-технологий и методов дистанционного зондирования земли были составлены проанализированы тематические карты. Интегральная степени преобразованности свидетельствует об удовлетворительном состоянии леса The article analyze...

in the recent years, increasing of green house gases, degradation of environment, deforestation alongside with the limitation and decreasing of ecological foot print of the earth for supplementation of human needs are the main problems of the world. the carbon dioxide gas as a main factor of world climate change, carry out the 60 percent of the global heating or greenhouse effect. the main sour...

Ecological indicators are needed to evaluate natural biodiversity and to estimate environmental change. I used bird community composition as an environmental indicator to evaluate forest disturbance (at the community level) in areas of Western Mexico. Surveyed bird and vegetation composition data at 79 sites within regions of the Sierra Madre del Sur and Transvolcanic Belt Provinces of Central ...

The major purpose of this study is to assess the perception of managers in the Forest, Range and WatershedOrganization. It is an applied study by using descriptive–correlative method. A questionnaire was developedand data collected from 105 respondents. The validity and reliability of questionnaires was verified. Theresults of study show that there was a relationship between educational level, ...

The need for new criteria and indicators for the assessment of biodiversity conservation as part of sustainable forest management of tropical forests has been identified as a priority by many international organisations. Those biodiversity criteria and indicators which formed part of a much broader initial assessment by the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) (Prabhu et al. 1996)...