The contribution of local communities has become widely recognized as a better alternative in forest management than the traditional command-based control approach. However, several years later implementation, most programs were failed due to lack community participation, imposing an uncertain future for forestry. This paper examines rural Sri Lankans’ participation intention forestry (CF) prog...

Women’s rights and privileges are now global issues. Government of the Peoples Republic Bangladesh has reviewed all its policies programmes to remove gender discrimination bring women in mainstream development arenas warrant their roles significant. In very recent past participation was emphasized forestry activities Bangladesh. Social programme is such an important sector where rural poor dest...

Abstract: Recently published data on Italian forest removals from FAO and EUROSTAT are still ridden with inaccuracies underestimation. In this work we show how why the forestry collection system is in itself unreliable. This represents a major obstacle for designing sector policies, ensuring flow of ecosystem services to society, defining role forests, wood consistent European Green Deal NextGe...

Canada is one of the world's leading forestry nations and luckily, there are still some Canadian world class forestry equipment manufacturers. This is all the more important since new technology in the resource industries is most easily introduced by equipment manufacturers, not end-users. The four year, 2.2M$ ATREF project is one recent large-scale attempt in Canada to address this issue, by b...

After finishing my Ph.D. in Berkeley in 1971, I needed a job in the San Francisco Bay Area, while my wife was finishing her Ph.D. in statistics. It was a tough year jobwise and the only available position was a part-time job with the US Forest Service Station in Berkeley, which funded a position as a Research Engineer at the OR Center at UC Berkeley. My boss and friend up to today, Daniel Navon...