This paper presents conceptual framework of forest foods and food security link to forest resource management to well being. NWFPs studies in different areas, important species to Lao people’s livelihood, household uses and commercialization, nutrition study on forest foods, NWFPs research projects in the past and going on project and the concepts note of one activity to be implemented on enhan...

A broader, more comprehensive concept of forest pest management is needed to make it a really integral part of forest resource management. A generalized model structure of a forest pest management system is presented, and the major components are discussed briefly. Predictive models are the primary mechanism of information flow to decision and action in the system. General considerations affect...

Knowledge about the growing stock and the cutting potentials of stands, as well as predictions of growth and yield, are essential aspects of forest management planning. Growth predictions are obtained using complex simulation systems, whose accuracy and precision are difficult to predict. The uncertainty of growth and yield predictions, as well as the uncertainty of the stand-level inventory da...

The modeling approach used by most organizations to do strategic wood supply analysis usually pays little attention to the location issues that are important to the supply chain. This paper raises questions about the conventional approach and suggests that the strategic linear programming models should contain much more spatial and market information. We point out that there is much more flexib...

Objective: The aim of this study is to develop a smartphone-based high-frequency remote monitoring platform, assess its feasibility for remote monitoring of symptoms in Parkinsons disease, and demonstrate the value of data collected using the platform by detecting dopaminergic medication response. Methods: We have developed HopkinsPD, a novel smartphonebased monitoring platform, which measures ...

This review synthesizes the literature studying illegality and government corruption in forest management. After discussing the theoretical connections between different types of corruption and illegal forest-related activities it describes the major trends in previous studies, examining crossnational patterns as well as local in-depth studies. Both theory and available empirical findings provi...

Threats associated with climate change may damage forests. To encourage adaptation in countries with a lot of privately owned forest, policy measures directed at private forest owners may be implemented. By means of policy scenarios, the present study examined the effects of two hypothetical policies: an advice and an economic incentive, on climate change adaptation among private forest owners ...

Mining for resources extraction may lead to geological and associated environmental changes due to ground movements, collision with mining cavities, and deformation of aquifers. Geological changes may continue in a reclaimed mine area, and the deformed aquifers may entail a breakdown of substrates and an increase in ground water tables, which may cause surface area inundation. Consequently, a r...

Making good decisions for adaptive forest management has become increasingly difficult. New artificial intelligence (AI) technology allows knowledge processing to be included in decision–support tool. The application of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN), known as Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP), to predict the behaviours of nonlinear systems has become an attractive alternative to traditio...

Transaction costs are an important determinant in the success or failure of community-based resource management. In particular, they can affect participation in management activities, with the poor bearing a proportionally larger share of the costs. Analysis of 309 households from the Middle-Hills of Nepal reveals that transaction costs for communal forest management as a percentage of total co...