Canada S Boreal Forest Economy

Author : Bryan Edward Cooper Bogdanski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Forest policy
ISBN : 0662478878

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Canada's Boreal Forest Economy by Bryan Edward Cooper Bogdanski Pdf

"Canada's forest economy is heavily dependent on boreal forest resources. Conservative estimates put the contribution of the boreal forest resources to the Canadian forest economy at about $40 billion in revenue and 128 000 jobs, or about 40% of the total forest economy. The boreal region is also home to significant agriculture and mining economies, as well as tourism industries. This region also provides immense environmental and social goods and services, as well as being home to a significant population of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples. In the coming years, new challenges and opportunities face the boreal forest-based economies. These challenges originate internally, such as increased demand for environmental and social values, and externally, such as increased competition in international markets. Unfortunately, there are considerable information and knowledge gaps regarding many aspects of the boreal forest economy and society. Economic research in the areas of forest land management, integrated resource land management, forest protection, boreal regional economies, transportation, non-timber forest values, climate change impacts and adaptation, and public policy will help fill some of the information and knowledge gaps. This will enable development of effective public policies and industrial strategies in the areas of resource development, social development and environmental protection to ensure that the boreal forest region continues along a sustainable path."--Conclusion.

Author : National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (Canada). Boreal Forest Program Task Force
Publisher : National Round Table
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951D023937287

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Boreal Futures by National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (Canada). Boreal Forest Program Task Force Pdf

This report presents the findings & recommendations of the Boreal Forest Program, established to examine how to advance conservation in balance with economic activity on public lands allocated for resource development in Canada's boreal forest area. After an introduction on the Program and the research approach for this report, section 2 outlines the ecological, economic, & social importance of Canada's boreal area and considers international & domestic trends affecting its future. Section 3 identifies opportunities for governance action by governments, industry, Aboriginal & community groups, and civil society organizations under four interrelated policy areas to promote conservation in the boreal in balance with economic development, and summarizes the debate on these key issues. The final section presents a set of observations on the Program findings.

Author : Mark Peter Anielski,Sara Justine Wilson,Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development,Canadian Boreal Initiative
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Ecosystem management
ISBN : MINN:31951D02383608N

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Counting Canada's Natural Capital by Mark Peter Anielski,Sara Justine Wilson,Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development,Canadian Boreal Initiative Pdf

While the market benefits of harvesting timber or extracting oil and gas are measured in terms The report also noted that in many regions, little is of their contribution to Canada's GDP, the value of known about the status and economic value of ecosys- most of the boreal region's ecosystem services is tem services. [...] Boreal Canada: State of the Ecosystem, State of Industry, Emerging Issues and Projections (Report to the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy) (Ottawa: National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy, 2004). [...] Some exists (for ethical reasons).25 accounting for the appearance and disappearance of ecosystem features may be possible in a limited form For the purposes of accounting for the boreal region's of account."27 Therefore, this study is pioneering in natural capital and ecosystem functions, the UN the conceptual design and practical construction of Handbook of National Accounting, Integrated Enviro [...] For example, it was possible While the availability of physical or quantitative data was to account for the amount of carbon stored and annually a serious constraint to the construction of a set of boreal sequestered by forests and peatlands in the boreal ecosystem accounts, we were fortunate to have access to region and estimate a range of economic values for a wealth of spatial, geo-coded inform [...] The PSR is a convenient representation of the linkages among the pressures exerted on the land by human activities (pressures), the change in quality of the resource (state), and the response to these changes as society attempts to release the pressure or to rehabilitate land that has been degraded (response).

Author : Canadian Boreal Initiative
Publisher : Ottawa: Canadian Boreal Initiative
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951D02383609L

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L'enjeu boréal : assurer l'avenir de la région boreale au Canada by Canadian Boreal Initiative Pdf

In concert with the members of the council, the CBI created and launched the Boreal Forest Conservation Framework - a vision for the protection and sustainable development of Canada's entire Boreal ecosystem. [...] The Framework's goal is to conserve the natural, cultural and sustainable economic values of the Boreal region by protecting about half of the region in a comprehensive network of protected areas and promoting world-leading industrial practices on the remainder of the landscape where appropriate. [...] The southern fringe includes the mixed forests of the southern Boreal shield in the east and Boreal forest-prairie-parkland habitats in the west. [...] In the northern Boreal region is the taiga, an ecological crossroads between the forests to the south and the tundra to the north. [...] Although many Aboriginal people continue to about lumberjacks, Mounties, dogsled rely on the Boreal forest for their cultural and economic survival, teams, snowmobiles, hockey on a frozen most have not benefited from the development of its natural pond, the howl of the wolf and the cry of the resources, which accounts for billions of dollars of revenue and a loon?

Author : HENRY DAVID J
Publisher : Washington [D.C.] : Smithsonian Institution Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2002-09-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:49015002813518

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CANADAS BOREAL FOREST by HENRY DAVID J Pdf

In Canada alone, the boreal forest (also called the taiga) covers more than 1.5 million square miles, fully one-third of the country and 20 percent of the entire North American continent. Terminating to the north with the treeless tundra, this region is inhabited and utilized by indigenous people and is home to unique populations of plants and animals found nowhere else on the planet. J. David Henry challenges the perception of the boreal forest as an "economic wasteland" by explaining how economically and ecologically valuable it is. He begins by answering some common questions about the region and explains its intricate geology. An in-depth examination follows of three factors that play an enormous role in shaping the complex life of the boreal forest: snow, forest fires, and peatlands. Henry looks at the dynamics of the region's vegetation and the evolution of its animals, and discusses the fascinating ten-year predator-prey cycle of snowshoe hares and Canadian lynx, one of the most famous examples of ecological interconnection. In Canada's boreal forest, loggers have clear cut an area the size of Great Britain. The final portion of the book examines initiatives from Scandinavia and Finland in order to offer alternatives to large-scale logging and mining, suggesting how humans can live and work in the boreal forest in a sustainable and responsible manner.

Author : Philip Joseph Burton
Publisher : NRC Research Press
Page : 1056 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Science
ISBN : 0660187620

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Towards Sustainable Management of the Boreal Forest by Philip Joseph Burton Pdf

Presenting a summary of the development in boreal forest management, this book provides a progressive vision for some of the world's northern forests. It includes a selection of chapters based on the research conducted by the Sustainable Forest Management Network across Canada. It includes a number of case histories.

Author : Elaine E. Wheaton,Canada. Environment Canada
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Climatic changes
ISBN : WISC:89045992096

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Exploring the Implications of Climatic Change for the Boreal Forest and Forestry Economics of Western Canada by Elaine E. Wheaton,Canada. Environment Canada Pdf

Author : Canadian Forest Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Forest conservation
ISBN : MINN:31951D02027366M

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Canada's Report on the Montréal Process Criteria and Indicators for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Temperate and Boreal Forests by Canadian Forest Service Pdf

The Montreal Process was formed to advance the development of internationally agreed-upon criteria & indicators for sustainable forest management. The Canadian commitment to this process is demonstrated by the development of a domestic set of seven criteria & indicators, six of this relate to forest conditions, attributes, functions, or benefits. The seventh relates to the overall policy framework that can facilitate sustainable forest management and support efforts to conserve, maintain, or enhance the conditions, attributes, and benefits captured in the first six criteria. This report begins with an introduction describing forest ecosystems and forest management in Canada, explaining the area of forest covered by the report, and indentifying Canada-specific forest management characteristics to help place the criteria & indicators framework in context. The main section contains reports on the criteria, each with an introduction and reports on the corresponding indicators (what is being measured, indicator data or factual description, information sources). The final section contains a summary of all the criteria as well as an overview of Canada's ability to report on them and plans to enhance reporting capability in the future. Includes glossary.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821319175

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The Forest Sector by Anonim Pdf

Since 1978, when the World Bank published its policy paper on forestry, the world's understanding of and concern about the forest sector of the developing world has increased substantially. It has become clear that forests and woodlands play an even more important economic and ecological role than had earlier been recognized. In particular, the importance of tropical moist forests in protecting biological diversity has become more fully appreciated, as has their role in the carbon cycle and in global climatic change. The nature of the challenge; Deforestation and forest degradation; The growing demand for forests and trees for basic needs; Strategies for forest development; The role of the world bank; Challenges for the forest sector; Strategies for forest development; The role of the world bank.

Author : Ken Drushka
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-16
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780773571693

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Canada's Forests by Ken Drushka Pdf

Ken Drushka analyses the changes in human attitudes towards the forests, detailing the rise of the late nineteenth-century conservation movement and its subsequent decline after World War I, the interplay between industry and government in the development of policy, the adoption of sustained yield policies after World War II, and the recent adoption of sustainable forest management in response to environmental concerns. Drushka argues that, despite the centuries of use, the Canadian forest retains a good deal of its vitality and integrity. Written in accessible language and aimed at a general readership, Canada's Forests will be a must-read for anyone interested in the debate about the current and future uses of this precious natural resource.

Author : Michael Howlett
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 468 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0802081754

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Canadian Forest Policy by Michael Howlett Pdf

Arguing that the complexity of policy-making in the forest sector has led many analysts to focus exclusively on specific sectoral activities or jurisdictions, this collection of essays offers a simplifying framework of analysis.

Author : Robin James Marles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Ethnobotany
ISBN : 0774807385

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Aboriginal Plant Use in Canada's Northwest Boreal Forest by Robin James Marles Pdf

To compile this book the authors, along with seven other First Nation trainees, five Métis trainees, and four other botany students, learned how to collect voucher plant specimens and record traditional knowledge about the use of plants for medicine, handicrafts, technology, and ritual practices. Over 100 elders contributed information that they felt should be shared among communities.

Author : Working Group on Criteria and Indicators for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Temperate and Boreal Forests. Technical Advisory Committee,Canadian Forest Service. Science Branch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Data collection
ISBN : CORNELL:31924094782335

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Scaling National Criteria and Indicators to the Local Level by Working Group on Criteria and Indicators for the Conservation and Sustainable Management of Temperate and Boreal Forests. Technical Advisory Committee,Canadian Forest Service. Science Branch Pdf

The issue of scale of data must be addressed if forest managers are to minimize errors when data collected at one organizational level are used to estimate parameters at another. This paper discusses the following issues concerning scale: the issues of scale regarding the collection & aggregation of data at the subnational & national levels; the effect of scale on the interpretation of data; and the implications of the periodicity of nationally collected data on subnational application of criteria & indicators of sustainable forest management. The paper also provides examples from several countries on mechanisms for the development, identification, and implementation of subnational indicators of sustainable forest management that can be linked to national indicators.

Author : Michael J. Apps,David T. Price,Joe Wisniewski
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401709422

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Boreal Forests and Global Change by Michael J. Apps,David T. Price,Joe Wisniewski Pdf

Boreal forests form Earth's largest terrestrial biome. They are rich in ecosystem and landscape diversity, though characterized by relatively few plant species, as compared to other forested regions. The long term viability and sustainability of boreal forests is influenced by many factors. They are subject to interruptions at intervals by large-scale natural disturbances, and increasingly by human activities. Boreal ecosystem development is typically a slow process; hence rapid changes in the global environment may invoke complex responses. Many industrial nations border, or lie within, boreal regions, deriving much of their economic wealth and culture from the forests. The response of boreal forests to changes in the global environment - whether caused by direct human activity or by indirect changes such as the anticipated changes in climate - are therefore of considerable international interest, both for their policy implications and their scientific challenges. This book which contains almost 50 peer-reviewed papers from a world-wide group of experts assembled under the auspices of IBFRA, the International Boreal Forest Research Association, covers topics which will stimulate further research and the development of constructive policies for improved management and conservation of global boreal forest resources.

Author : Wynet Smith,Global Forest Watch Canada,World Resources Institute
Publisher : Washington, DC : World Resources Institute
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : STANFORD:36105028585011

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Canada's Forests at a Crossroads by Wynet Smith,Global Forest Watch Canada,World Resources Institute Pdf

Canada is at a crossroads. There is an increasing commitment to managing forests not just for timber, but also for wildlife, recreational uses, and other ecosystem services. This volume documents the logging, mining, and other development that occurs throughout much of Canada's forests.