For the past two decades, there has been extensive debate on the destructive interaction between beef production and tropical forests in Latin America. The primary concern has been deforestation to provide land for pasture and cattle production. Beef production has been part of the land use mosaic in the Bolivian lowlands for centuries and will undoubtedly remain so for the foreseeable future. ...

Riau Province as one of the provinces in Indonesia with quite complex environmental problems, especially problem forest destruction and peat ecosystems, impact which is largest contributors to land fire disaster that occurred Indonesia. Forest fires continue every year, but law enforcement against perpetrators fires. Law burning very important considering causes occurrence or forests before use...

Abstract Changes in land use/land cover are part of the dynamics nature, both changes caused by natural disasters and human activities. The need for humans encourages acceleration change, especially from forests to non-forests. rate change will affect hydrological state so that becomes very critical. One things causes become critical is erosion. policies carried out reduce cover, reduction eros...

In northern Sweden, the availability of arboreal lichens (Bryoria fuscescens, Alectoria sarmentosa) as winter grazing resources is an important element in reindeer husbandry. With the industrialization of forestry, forests rich in arboreal lichens have diminished considerably. Here, we analyze how forestry has impacted lichen availability from the 1920's to the present day and model its future ...

Olofsson, E. 2006. Supporting management of the risk of wind damage in south Swedish forestry. Doctor’s dissertation. ISSN 1652-6880, ISBN 91-576-7095-1 Private forest owners in southern Sweden consider wind damage to be one of the most problematic risks from an economic perspective. A potential climate change also raises the question of the possible impact of such a climate change on the risk ...

Classic methodologies for carbon footprint are made for conventional companies or territories. None is well adapted for entire sectors or parts of sectors, which usually contain numerous and very different companies, such in the forestry. In this work, we proposed a methodology to count GHG emissions for forestry in a region, from harvest preparation to the entrance of industries. We divided fo...

Forestry, as a large industry, has significant impacts on the quality of nature-based tourism landscapes in boreal forests. In Finland, the rapid growth of nature-based tourism has expanded outdoor recreation activities from protected areas into timber production forests; this is particularly so in northern Finland. This paper focuses on assessing balanced local net impacts of three alternative...

G. S. Pegg*, F. R. Giblin, A. R. McTaggart, G. P. Guymer, H. Taylor, K. B. Ireland, R. G. Shivas and S. Perry Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, Horticulture and Forestry Science, Agri-Science Queensland, GPO Box 267, Brisbane, Qld 4001; Forest Industries Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast, Locked Bag 4, Maroochydore DC, Qld 4558; Queensland Alliance for Agricultu...

Community forestry offers potential for socioeconomic benefits while maintaining ecosystem services. In Mexico, government and donor efforts to develop this sector focus on issues within forest communities. Often overlooked are effects of external non-government actors (NGOs and foresters) as links or barriers between communities and funding, capacity building, and technical support. To analyze...

www.ethnobotanyjournal.org/vol10/i1547-3465-10-305.pdf Ethnobotany Research & Applications 10:305-320 (2012) Girmay Zenebe, Hawassa University, Wondo Genet College of Forestry and Natural Resources, School of Forestry, P. O. Box 128, Shahemene, ETHIOPIA. [email protected] Mohammed Zerihun, Forum for Social Studies, Addis Ababa, ETHIOPIA. [email protected] Zewdie Solomon, Hawassa Un...