In 1995, the Philippines officially adopted Community-Based Forest Management (CBFM) as its strategy for sustainable forest management in recognition of the urgent need to put “social fences” in open access forests and forest lands. CBFM was conceptualized to partly respond to the issue of the state as being the biggest “absentee landlord” by recognizing de-facto resource management of communit...

Sustainable forest management is defined as “the stewardship and use of forests and forest lands in a way, and at a rate, that maintains their biodiversity, productivity, regeneration capacity, vitality and their potential to fulfil, now and in the future, relevant ecological, economic and social functions [...].” (MCPFE, 1994). As such, forest management has to satisfy multiple and often confl...

the major purpose of this study is to assess the perception of managers in the forest, range and watershedorganization. it is an applied study by using descriptive–correlative method. a questionnaire was developedand data collected from 105 respondents. the validity and reliability of questionnaires was verified. theresults of study show that there was a relationship between educational level, ...

We present an in-depth analysis of natural forest management practices in Costa Rica based on a new historical forestry GIS database encompassing five conservation regions in the country where selective logging has been prevalent for the last 18 years. Natural forest management refers to the selective logging practices for the production of timber in natural forest ecosystems. The study conside...

Historical forest landscape dynamics include consideration of spatial and temporal distributions of forest conditions over recent history and also historical disturbance regimes. Understanding of historical landscape dynamics in these senses is relevant to planning future management of federal forest lands on both policy and ecological grounds. Although some particular elements of our policy fr...

one of the problems in forest park management, planning, and design is the tendency to consider recreation independent from aesthetic preferences and ecological objectives. this paper presents the findings of an examination of recreational activities in relation to aesthetics and ecological potentials in siangtan forest park in iran. although protected areas constitute most of this 591 ha park,...

Forests in boreal and temperate forest-ecosystems have importance for carbon balance since they sequester large amount of atmospheric carbon by uptake of carbon-dioxide during photosynthesis, and transfer and store carbon in the forest ecosystem. Forest material can be used for bio-fuel purposes and substitute fossil fuels, and supply wood products, which can replace carbon-and-energy-intensive...

Remote sensing and GIS are complementary technologies that, when combined, enable improved monitoring, mapping, and management of forest resources (Franklin 2001). The information that supports forest management is stored primarily in the form of forest inventory databases within a GIS environment. A forest inventory is a survey of the location, composition, and distribution of forest resources...

Forest management has traditionally been considered management of trees for timber. It really includes vegetation management and land management and people management as multiple objectives. As such, forest management is intimately linked with other topics in this volume, most especially those chapters on ecological modelling and human dimensions. The key to responsible forest management is to ...