China started forest land tenure reform in the early 1980s. The household responsibility system (HRS) was usually referred to as reform even though various forms of reforms have been developed from region to region. More importantly, the approaches to reform have been evolving through time. A trend toward privatization became more apparent when the Central Government started a pilot experiment ...

Considering the variety of attitudes, objectives and behaviors characterizing forest owners is crucial for accurately assessing the impact of policy and market drivers on forest resources. A serious shortcoming of existing pan-European Decision Support Systems (DSS) is that they do not account for such heterogeneity, consequently disregarding the effects that this might have on timber supply an...

Landownership is an important form of wealth, especially in a natural-resource dependent region such as the Black Belt of Alabama. We examine the connection between property ownership, land cover, and the wellbeing of communities in Macon County, Alabama. This study is an exploratory application of geographic information systems to integrate information from property tax assessment records, lan...

ests could provide a larger share of the nation’s timber supply (Stoddard 1942, 1961). Thus, initial programs were designed to help owners of small tracts of forestland be more productive timber managers. The term “sustainable forestry,” described generally as managing forests for their ecological, economic, and social benefits such that these benefits do not diminish in quantity or quality ove...

Timberland owners have used a number of approaches for monetizing the barelan component of their timberland without losing the right to grow and harvest timber, including, among others: selling a working-forest conservation easement, selling recreational rights, and selling the surface while retaining cutting rights. In this paper, I will address the latter approach, with an emphasis on the opp...

In general, the Indonesia official land use zone is divided into two main categories: state forest and non-state forest areas. State forest is land area that is designated by the government as “forest zone or areas” (kawasan hutan). Based on the recent Consensus of Forest Land Use (TGHK) and Provincial Spatial Plans (RTRWP), forestland in Indonesia today covers 112.5 million hectares, or almost...