MacGregor, Donald G.; Seesholtz, David N. 2008. Factors influencing line officers’ decisions about National Environmental Policy Act project design and development. Gen. Tech. Rep. PNW-GTR-766. Portland, OR: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 27 p. Prior to the existence of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), Forest Service district ran...

Parks and Protected Areas (PPA) have become increasingly important for societal well-being in Europe and the United States. Urbanization, detachment from nature, and demographic changes are fostering discussions about strengthening the social and cultural dimensions of management. The complexities and subtleties of incorporating PPAs into existing government and societal contexts are explored w...

John Sterling is a partner and co-founder of Smock Sterling – Strategic Management Consultants, located in Lake Forest, Illinois ([email protected])). The Žrm specializes in strategic planning and management. Sterling’s previous Strategy & Leadership case study (Vol. 30 No. 6, November/December 2002) explained how Rubicon Technology, a high tech start-up, successfully practices strate...

1 Community forests (CFs) in northern Burma have been gaining momentum since the mid-2000s, spearheaded by national NGOs, mostly in response to protect village land from encroaching agribusiness concessions. While the production of these new CF landscapes represents the material resistance against state-sponsored rubber, in effect it produces contested state authority by formalizing control of ...

In the era of research infrastructures and big data, sophisticated data management practices are becoming essential building blocks of successful science. Most practices follow a data-centric approach, which does not take into account the processes that created, analysed and presented the data. This fact limits the possibilities for reliable verification of results. Furthermore, it does not gua...

The multiplicity of forest products and their uses, and the conflicts it may cause among the stakeholders and various interests makes forestry planning in India to be considerably complex. The particular features of forestry, namely: its long gestation period and investment horizon (often not matching with the social time preference); the difficulty to distinguish between forest capital and inc...

Forest planning in Sweden today translates not only into planning of timber production, but also for the provision of other functions and services. Multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) methods provide a way to take also non-monetary values into account in planning. The purpose of this study was to gain experience on how to use a forest decision support system combined with an MCDA tool in pr...

Forest management plans often suggest that economic, ecological, and/or social sustainability will be achieved if the proposed actions are followed. Using forest developed by US Department of Agriculture Service and Republic Turkey, purposes this study were to (i) extract those statements (ii) assess whether there exist statistical differences between two countries’ emphases findings. A content...

• The perspective for future is a new technology of sustainable forest management based on utilisation of modern information technologies (mobile communication, remote sensing methods, temporally analysis, mathematical modelling). Mobility forestry planing systems and services, which exploit and are built on the existing (GPRS) and future telecommunications (UTMS) and positioning networks (GPS)...