Discusses the interaction between socio-economic systems and their natural environment, by examining the indicators of sustainable development. Areas covered by the operationalization of sustainable development indicators; Details on the global nature of environmental problems; Important strategy of the operationalization of sustainable development; Link between economic data and ecological ind...

Karim Saei was born in 1910, in Mashhad, north eastern Iran, where he got his diploma. He left behind his homeland for Karaj city to study at the Faculty of Agriculture of Tehran University. He passed his course very successfully and received his B.Sc. degree in 1931 followed by a scholarship to study for 2 years at Agronomic Institute in Montpellier, France. He graduated M.Sc. with excellent g...

a Department of Forestry and Natural Resource Management, State University of New York, College of Environmental Sciences and Forestry (SUNY-ESF), One Forestry Drive, Illick Hall 340, 13210 Syracuse, NY, USA b Department of Electrical Engineering and Director, Center for Research in Energy and Energy Conservation (CREEC), Faculty of Technology, Makerere University Uganda, P. O. Box 7062, Kampal...

Individual owned forests have boomed in the last decade in China. Hundreds of millions of private forest owners have emerged since years of afforestation practice and collective forest ownership reform. Most of those private forest owners are former peasants living in afforestation areas. They thirst for forestry information, such as technique knowledge, forestry policies, finance, marketing, e...

This review charts out recent developments in gender research in forestry research, with a focus on tropical and dry forests in developing countries. We reviewed 121 publications extracted from the Web of Knowledge database and publications by the Center for International Forestry Research for the past 10 years. Over the past decade (2000–2011) gender-focused forestry research has been dominate...

forest ecosystems that have spent a long time to mature, offer important goods and services to humanity. hence, utilization and exploitation of these resources should be based on careful assessment of their ecological value and potential. ecological land evaluation is an approach based on land quality, vulnerability and potential assessment for different acceptable uses drawing upon related mod...

Prospects for genetic improvement of Eucalyptus cladocalyx in Western Australia Andrew Callister, David Bush, Sally Collins, Wayne Davis 1 ITC Forestry, PO Box 1421 Albany, WA 6331. [email protected] 2 Ensis Genetics, PO Box E4008 Kingston ACT 2604. [email protected] ITC Forestry, PO Box 1421 Albany, WA 6331. [email protected] 4 ITC Forestry, PO Box 1421 Alba...