A growing ethnographic literature attends to maintenance and repair practices in the face of decay ruination. This article explores forms that become an integral part infrastructure maintenance. In Turkey’s Çoruh Basin, hydroelectric dam constructions lead a concern about landscape’s erosive character, which requires foresters’ watershed rehabilitation uplands protect dams against sediment accu...

The agri-food and forestry sectors are under increasing pressure to adapt climate change, consumer concern, technological economic complex global value chains. In turn, such challenges require that the necessary skills competences identified at various levels within specific areas of sectors. For purpose, eleven focus groups in nine different EU-countries two EU-level were organized ERASMUS+ pr...

This analysis was made possible through funding from Wilburforce Foundation and 444S Foundation. The Forest Guild promotes ecologically, economically, and socially responsible forestry as a means of sustaining the integrity of forest ecosystems and the human communities dependent upon them. The Guild provides training, policy analysis, and research to foster excellence in stewardship, to suppor...

-The Forest Health Monitoring (FHM) Program was initiated in 1990 as a cooperative effort between the USDA Forest Service and the National Association of State Foresters. Program efforts include detecting changes in tree health from a national grid of one-sixth acre permanent sample plots. Tree data have been collected in various states since 1991, and include species, diameter at breast height...

The rapid transformation of natural forest areas into fast-growing exotic species plantations, where the main objective is timber and pulp production, has led to a neglect of other services forests provide in many parts of the world. One example of such a problem is the county of Biscay, where the management of these plantations has negative impacts on the environment, creating the necessity to...

Unasylva 224, Vol. 57, 2006 Why should foresters concern themselves with issues of human health? There are at least two important answers to this question. First, and perhaps most fundamental, forestry activities affect human health and human health affects forests. Second, the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) (see Box), which the world’s countries have committed to meet by 20...

Trembling aspen (Populus tremuloides Michx.) generally grows as clones in which stems, ranging from many thousands to only a few, are interconnected by a common root system. When clones are very large, in one recorded case involving about 47␣ 000 stems joined together over a 43 ha area, aspen becomes a candidate for earth’s most massive and oldest organism. Recent analyses suggest that aspen cl...

INTRODUCTION Human African Trypanosomiasis (HAT), or sleeping sickness, is a neglected tropical parasitic disease of humans due to trypanosomes transmitted by tsetse flies (Glossina spp.) in sub-Saharan Africa. Comparable diseases (Animal African Trypanosomiasis—AAT—nagana) are present in domesticated animals and these are an important constraint to animal health and production in Africa (Jorda...