< p>Successful implementation of land reform requires the implementation of large-scale market transformations, in particular in the structure of land tenure and land use, in the field of land valuation. The article is devoted to the development of scientific and methodological bases of economic evaluation and use of land resources of agricultural enterprises, substantiation of approaches and r...

The aim of this study was to develop an optimal sustainable forest plantation based on goal programming and Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) methods. This study was carried out in Guilan province, north of Iran. First of all, the ecological capability of the study area for plantation establishment/maintenance was evaluated based on multi-factor method and specific ecological Makhdoum Model by ...

Forest structure is both a product and driver of ecosystem processes and biological diversity. It has become apparent in recent years that changes in forest structure as a result of management for timber production have undesirable consequences for other components of forest ecosystems. The objective of this paper is to provide an overview of what we have learned about the ecological roles of f...

Fire is a disaster that causes adverse effects to forests, ecosystems and human life in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia. Enhancing technologies that monitor fires could reduce the occurrence of these disasters. In order to develop a robust fire monitoring system, a deep understanding of fire behaviour is needed. This study focuses on the investigation of spatial and temporal factors influencing f...

HIGHLIGHTS Most Brazilian entomology has focused on the Atlantic Forest biome. Research Amazon and Pantanal biomes should be increased given their biodiversity. The Hymenoptera is most studied taxon in Brazil for conservation. Aquatic insects are widely used official monitoring conservation programs. Insect recovery programs provide effective

The concern for the fate of forest ecosystems under climate change demands the development of a prompt and effective system for detecting the impacts of pressure factors, such as rising temperatures, drought conditions, and extreme climatic events. In ongoing European monitoring programs, the health condition of trees is only assessed visually as a matter of course and there is limited evidence...

Introduction Community Based Forestry (CBF) implies commitment to the long term ecological, economic and social well being of forest dependent communities. CBF, or community scale sustainable forestry, constitutes a departure from industrial forestry due to this commitment to the preservation of the ecological integrity of the forest ecosystem in perpetuity and to the maintenance or improvement...

Emergy (with an 'm') synthesis was used to assess the balance between nature and humanity and the equity among forest outcomes of a US Forest Service ecosystem management demonstration project on the Wine Spring Creek watershed, a high-elevation (1600 m), temperate forest located in the southern Appalachian mountains of North Carolina, USA. EM embraces a holistic perspective, accounting for the...

land-use planning is a science that determines the type optimum of land-use through studying the ecological characteristics of the land as well as its socio-economic structure. the primary objective of this study is to evaluate the land-use and natural resources for future sustainable land planning using gis. in this study, the makhdoom’s systematic method was used to analyze the ecological and...