Land use planning is a science that determines the type of land use through studying the ecological character of the land as well as its socio-economic structure. It is possible to plan for the appropriate use of the land and to enhance the present management of the land use by utilizing Geographical Information System (GIS). To this end, our investigators identified and took steps toward devel...

The Sustainable Forestry and African American Land Retention Program is a comprehensive effort to address the long-standing problem of underparticipation of African Americans in forest management. We conducted rapid appraisal baseline research for pilot projects in this program in three Southern states using a carefully selected purposive sample to enhance our understanding of minority landowne...

During the last decade, forest certification has gained momentum as a market-based conservation strategy in tropical forest countries. Certification has been promoted to enhance forest management in countries where governance capacities are insufficient to adequately manage natural resources and enforce pertinent regulations, given that certification relies largely on non-governmental organisat...

Paper Abstract: This paper will introduce the reader to the processes a team of individuals from Management, Forestry, Consultants, and Computer Science backgrounds employed to gather user needs/ requirements for a Forestry Portal. The paper will first inform the reader on the background and objectives of the Forestry Portal Project and then discuss the lessons learned and future steps in condu...

1 College of Materials Science and Engineering, Nanjing Forestry University, 159 6 Longpan Road, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China 210037. 7 2 Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management, University of New 8 Brunswick, 28 Dineen Drive, Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada E3B 5A3. 9 * Corresponding author: [email protected] 10 Received: July 08, 2017 11 Accepted: March 02, 2018 12 Posted online: March 06...

Decentralization in natural resource management (NRM) is increasingly promoted as it is believed to offer better management. This study explores the positive and negative aspects of the forestry confl ict that sometimes increases with decentralization. Drawing upon the results of a case study from Sumatra, this study examines how forestry confl ict under decentralization processes was viewed by...