Forestry In Transition

Author : Matti Palo,Erkki Lehto
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789048138951

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Private or Socialistic Forestry? by Matti Palo,Erkki Lehto Pdf

While deforestation continues at an alarming rate around the world, discussions on the range of underlying causes continue. The premise is that studying successful transitions from deforestation to sustainable forestry ex post in Finland can provide novel insights into how deforestation in the tropics might be reduced in the future. Our fundamental question here is why Finland succeeded to stop deforestation for a century ago and why not the same is feasible in the contemporary tropical countries? This book presents a novel integrated theory within which this case study on Finland and contemporary modeling of underlying causes of tropical deforestation are developed. Finland remains the world’s second largest net exporter of forest products, while maintaining the highest forest cover in Europe. A transition from deforestation to sustainable industrial forestry took place in Finland during the first part of the 20th century. The underlying causes of this transition are compared via our theory with deforestation in 74 contemporary tropical countries. Both appear similar and support our theory. The interaction of public policies and market institutions has appeared to be critical during this transition. The study’s findings suggest that private forest ownership with a continuous increase in the real value of forests and alleviation of poverty under non-corruptive conditions has been a necessary, but not a sufficient, condition for this transition. In a parallel way public policies have also proved to be a necessary, but not sufficient, condition in this transition. The conclusion is that socialistic forestry along with corruption is artificially maintaining too low values in the tropical forests. The opportunity cost of sustainable forestry remains too high and deforestation by extensification of agriculture therefore continues. The prevailing socialistic forestry with dominating public forest ownership is by purpose maintaining administratively set low stumpage prices leading to low value of forests, wide corruption and continuous forest degradation and deforestation. An effective remedy – to raise the value of forests - is found to be within forestry.

Author : Ken Drushka
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Forest products
ISBN : MINN:319510003108066

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Stumped by Ken Drushka Pdf

Author : Trevor J. Barnes,Roger Hayter
Publisher : Canadian Western Geographical
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951D016039470

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Troubles in the Rainforest by Trevor J. Barnes,Roger Hayter Pdf

These essays and documents analyse and prescribe solutions to the recent troubles in BCs forest industry. Over the past fifteen years the industry has become the centre of a storm of controversy. Environmental protests, aboriginal land claims, reduced quota of allowable cuts, sweeping technological changes, multinational involvement and changing global markets have all shaken the once entrenched faith in BC's "green gold".In Part One, the authors look at the forest as a specific physical environment, the site of disputes involving environmentalists, First Nations Peoples, and the government. Empirical assessment of BC's forest resource base is followed by discussions on therole of government in setting the agenda for the various resource and land use conflicts dogging the industry.Part Two deals with changes within the industry and in the global context. The conflicting demands of new market trends and sustainable development are discussed from several points of view. Important issues such as the effects of free trade and increased multinational investment, the role of research and development and technological change, are addressed.Part Three melds ideas of sustainable growth and local economic development in single industry communities in BC.This timely, provocative collection will help us understand the forces of shaping the troubled landscape of British Columbia's forests.

Author : Matti Palo,Heidi Vanhanen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789401009423

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World Forests from Deforestation to Transition? by Matti Palo,Heidi Vanhanen Pdf

This book addresses global and subnational issues concerning the world's forests, societies, and environment from an independent and non-governmental point of view. Cooperation on a global scale is not only commendable, it is essential if solutions to the problems facing the world's forests are to be found. To achieve this, modern science needs to draw a clearer picture of relationships between forests, human activity, and the environment, and of the consequences of environmental change for the societies' development and growth. There are several - partly intermingled - evolutionary forest transitions underway: the slow transition from forest area decrease to an increase in the North while deforestation and degradation continues in the South. Although not all deforestation is considered negative, serious social, economic, and environmental costs may be associated with excessive deforestation. Deforestation control is just the first step on the stony path towards sustainable forest management. The forest management transition refers to the shift in the utilization towards managed semi-natural, secondary forests and plantation forests. There are some signs in the North of the forest paradigm shift from sustainable yield to forest ecosystem concepts. How deforestation can be tackled and how these concurrent transitions are effected will have profound implications for the future. These processes involve several challenges with South-North dimensions. A search for an optimum mix of public policies and markets is a global priority both as a forest policy issue and as an inter-sectoral item on the political agenda. Deforestation and transition is discussed here by a team of 14 scientists from both the North and the South. This book offers knowledge, facts, and information about world forests, society, and environment to help us towards equity in our use of the global forest – to create a clearer vision of unasylva.

Author : Jim Furnish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0870718134

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Toward a Natural Forest by Jim Furnish Pdf

The Forest Service stumbled in responding to a wave of lawsuits from environmental groups in the late 20th Century--a phenomenon best symbolized by the spotted owl controversy that shut down logging on public forests in the Pacific Northwest in the 1990s. The agency was brought to its knees, pitted between a powerful timber industry that had been having its way with the national forests for decades, and organized environmentalists who believed public lands had been abused and deserved better stewardship. Toward a Natural Forest offers an insider's view of this tumultuous time in the history of the Forest Service, presenting twin tales of transformation, both within the agency and within the author's evolving environmental consciousness. Drawing on the author's personal experience and his broad professional knowledge, Toward a Natural Forest illuminates the potential of the Forest Service to provide strong leadership in global conservation efforts. Those interested in our public lands--environmentalists, natural resource professionals, academics, and historians--will find Jim Furnish's story deeply informed, thought-provoking, and ultimately inspiring.

Author : Susanna Hecht,Anastasia Lucy Yang,Bimbika Sijapati Basnett,Christine Padoch,Nancy L Peluso
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-08
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9786023870134

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People in motion, forests in transition: Trends in migration, urbanization, and remittances and their effects on tropical forests by Susanna Hecht,Anastasia Lucy Yang,Bimbika Sijapati Basnett,Christine Padoch,Nancy L Peluso Pdf

Migration is not new. In recent decades however, human mobility has increased in numbers and scope and has helped fuel a global shift in the human population from predominantly rural to urban. Migration overall is a livelihood, investment and resilience strategy. It is affected by changes across multiple sectors and at varying scales and is affected by macro policies, transnational networks, regional conditions, local demands, political and social relations, household options and individual desires. Such enhanced mobility, changes in populations and communities in both sending and receiving areas, and the remittances that mobility generates, are key elements of current transitions that have both direct and indirect consequences for forests. Because migration processes engage with rural populations and spaces in the tropics, they inevitably affect forest resources through changes in use and management. Yet links between forests and migration have been overlooked too often in the literature on migration as well as in discussions about forest-based livelihoods. With a focus on landscapes that include tropical forests, this paper explores trends and diversities in the ways in which migration, urbanization and personal remittances affect rural livelihoods and forests.

Author : Arild Angelsen
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 43 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Common Property Resource Development
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Forest Cover Change in Space and Time by Arild Angelsen Pdf

This paper presents a framework for analyzing tropical deforestation and reforestation using the von Thunen model as its starting point: land is allocated to the use which yields the highest rent, and the rents of various land uses are determined by location. Forest cover change therefore becomes a question of changes in rent of forest versus non-forest use. While this is a simple and powerful starting point, more intriguing issues arise when this is applied to analyze real cases. An initial shift in the rent of one particular land use generates feedbacks which affect the rent of all land uses. For example, a new technology in extensive agriculture should make this land use more profitable and lead to more forest clearing, but general equilibrium effects (changes in prices and local wages) can modify or even reverse this conclusion. Another issue is how a policy change or a shift in broader market, technological, and institutional forces will affect various land use rents. The paper deals with three such areas: technological progress in agriculture, land tenure regimes, and community forest management. The second part of the paper links the von Thunen framework to the forest transition theory. The forest transition theory describes a sequence over time where a forested region goes through a period of deforestation before the forest cover eventually stabilizes and starts to increase. This sequence can be seen as a systematic pattern of change in the agricultural and forest land rents over time. Increasing agricultural rent leads to high rates of deforestation. The slow-down of deforestation and eventual reforestation is due to lower agricultural rents (the economic development path) and higher forest rent (the forest scarcity path). Various forces leading to these changes are discussed and supported by empirical evidence from different tropical regions.

Author : Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-02-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789251339329

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Society, economy and forests: The unfolding forest transition in China and the lessons for the future by Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

The paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the changes witnessed in the forest sector in China during the last three decades and the key drivers that have contributed to the country’s forest transition. Clearly, such a transition is an outcome of the convergence of several factors, including the emergence of China as an industrial economy, clear and consistent policies, tenure reforms, investment in key forestry programmes, and strengthening science and technology capabilities. The paper also provides an indication of the emerging challenges, including the larger uncertainties stemming from inward-looking policies and the outbreak of global pandemics and crises. This study on forest transition in China will provide valuable insights into what is required to build and sustainably manage forest capital in order to meet the needs and aspirations of all stakeholders, whether global, national or local.

Author : Teppo Hujala,Anne Toppinen,Brett J. Butler
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-05
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783030289997

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Services in Family Forestry by Teppo Hujala,Anne Toppinen,Brett J. Butler Pdf

This book transfers the newest service research concepts, such as value co-creation, to family forestry context. The book is aimed at as learning material for higher-education students in Western economies, and as a handbook for forest scientists worldwide. It has a strong theoretical base, but also a practical orientation with examples of novel forest services from different regions and contexts. The five parts of the book are: I Conceptualization of Service Approaches in Family Forestry; II Market and Policy Environment; III Public Service and Business Innovations; IV Communication, Cooperation, and Organizations for Services; and V Transitions Governance. Each part begins with a chapter that is more conceptual and thus sets the stage for the subsequent chapters, which then focus on a regional perspective or some more specific theme under the part’s coverage.

Author : Michael Jenkins,Emily Smith
Publisher : Macarthur Foundation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1999-06-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1559637137

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The Business of Sustainable Forestry by Michael Jenkins,Emily Smith Pdf

A range of powerful forces -- increasing demand for wood, uncertain and decreasing supply, increasing environmental pressures, and growing markets for environmentally certified wood -- are changing the way the forest products industry conducts business. Forward-thinking firms have recognized the significance of these forces and are developing a new business model, one that will not only sustain revenues, but can ensure the long-term health of the forests upon which the industry depends.The Business of Sustainable Forestry integrates and analyzes a series of 21 case studies of industry leaders carried out by the Sustainable Forestry Working Group. The motivations of the pioneering firms studied are as varied as their characteristics, yet each has made significant progress. The authors of this book argue that the operations that have been most succeessful are those that have integrated sustainable forestry principles and practices into their overall corporate strategy. The book: describes the forces that are pushing the industry toward sustainability presents an overview of the new techniques and technologies that are making sustainable forestry more feasible than ever presents in clear, engaging prose company profiles that demonstrate both the promise of and the obstacles to sustainable forest management gives a clear-eyed look at practices such as certification and their capacity to transform the forest products market provides conclusions drawn from the cases by Stuart Hart of the University of North Carolina and Matt Arnold of the Management Institute for Environment and Business offers a succinct set of lessons learned The Business of Sustainable Forestry is the first book to present a composite snapshot of the business of sustainable forestry and the lessons learned by early adopters in form and language accessible to the general business reader. Forest and natural resource managers, forest products industry managers, and students and academics in schools of business and forestry will find the book a unique and valuable guide to an industry in transition.

Author : Libor Jansky,Radovan Nevenic,Ilpo Tikkanen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Developing countries
ISBN : 9280880241

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Forests in Transition II by Libor Jansky,Radovan Nevenic,Ilpo Tikkanen Pdf

Author : Herman H. Shugart,Rik Leemans,Gordon B. Bonan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-07
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521619734

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A Systems Analysis of the Global Boreal Forest by Herman H. Shugart,Rik Leemans,Gordon B. Bonan Pdf

The world's boreal forests, which lie to the south of the Arctic, are considered to be the Earth's most significant terrestrial ecosystems. A panel of ecologists here provide a synthesis of the important patterns and processes which occur in boreal forests and review the principal mechanisms which control the forest's patterns.

Author : Christine Padoch,Nancy Lee Peluso
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Nature
ISBN : MINN:31951D01456574I

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Borneo in Transition by Christine Padoch,Nancy Lee Peluso Pdf

The last three decades have brought extraordinary changes to the forests and people of Borneo. Borneo in Transition provides glimpses into particular villages and shows people have responded to some of the most important changes in their social and physical environments.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Community forests
ISBN : MINN:31951D008983853

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Transitions in Forest Management by Anonim Pdf

Author : Andy White,Alejandra Martin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : MINN:31951D02030979I

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Who Owns the World's Forests? by Andy White,Alejandra Martin Pdf