The Biodiversity Support Program (BSP) was established in 1988 with funding from the Research and Development Bureau of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), under cooperative agreement number DHR-5554-A-00-8044-00. BSP is implemented by a consortium of World Wildlife Fund, The Nature Conservancy, and the World Resources Institute. The central purpose of the program is to suppo...

The ‘Community Forestry Program’ has been considered successful in improving the environmental situation in the hills of Nepal by enhancing the vegetation coverage of degraded sites and by improving the supply of forest products to farmers. The restoration measures are considered sustainable if the ecosystems are self-supporting and resilient against perturbation. A community forest (CF) in the...

ABSTRACT: This article analyzed the international competitiveness of exports forest products from 2008 to 2018. The information is available in Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) indicators used were: revealed comparative advantage (RCA), trade openness index (Oi) contribution balance (CTB). Results showed that exportation are competitive, addition gains have been observed by RCA Europe, c...

Background: The forest-based industry has been moving towards the manufacture of bio-based products in response to increasing concern by consumers and governments regarding use non-renewable materials generation residues. Various innovative technologies geared reducing environmental footprint processes are currently being developed applied industry. This study presen...

The importance of forest products to the households who live in or close to the forests has been increasingly recognised over the past ten years. The numbers of people who in some way rely on the forest for survival or livelihood inputs is difficult to assess, and estimates vary widely. The authors of this paper argue that these are not the most appropriate measures of the importance of forests...

Vegetation structure, including forest canopy height, is an important input variable to fire behavior modeling systems for simulating wildfire behavior. As such, forest canopy height is one of a nationwide suite of products generated by the LANDFIRE program. In the past, LANDFIRE has relied on a combination of field observations and Landsat imagery to develop existing vegetation structure produ...