Regulating Forestry

Author : Chris Tollefson
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780774806824

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The Wealth of Forests by Chris Tollefson Pdf

These are turbulent, unpredictable, yet opportune times for Canadian forestry. Never before have competing demands on Canada’s forest resources been so great. At the same time, we are finally being forced to confront the sustainable limit of these resources. Now, the improbable has happened: government, industry, First Nationa, and NGOs appear to be part of an emerging consensus that industrial forestry in Canada must change. The Wealth of Forests is a pioneering attempt to grapple with the policy implications of the transition to sustainable forestry. While much has been written on the theory and practice of sustainable forestry and on the relative merits of regulatory versus market approaches to environmental protection, these literatures have nnot as yet been bridged. Using illustrations based on recent developments in British Columbia forest policy, this collection provides that bridge by analyzing the potential and limits of market, regulatory, and other policy instruments as means of achieving sustainability. Featuring new work by many of Canada’s leading forest policy scholars, this interdisciplinary collection is devoted to translating the concept of sustainability into practice in key areas of forest policy, including tenure, timber pricing, forest practices, land-use zoning, and eco-certification. The Wealth of Forests also considers how domestic and international legal regimes might constrain the adoption of policies that could bring us close to the elusive goal of sustainable forestry.

Author : George Hoberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Forest policy
ISBN : MINN:31951D03042467L

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Regulating Forestry by George Hoberg Pdf

Author : George Hoberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Forest policy
ISBN : MINN:31951D00895644K

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Regulating Forestry by George Hoberg Pdf

Author : Richard A. Rajala
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780774842235

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Clearcutting the Pacific Rain Forest by Richard A. Rajala Pdf

This book integrates class, environmental, and political analysis to uncover the history of clearcutting in the Douglas fir forests of B.C., Washington, and Oregon between 1880 and 1965. Part I focuses on the mode of production, analyzing the technological and managerial structures of worker and resource exploitation from the perspective of current trends in labour process research. Rajala argues that operators sought to neutralize the variable forest environment by emulating the factory model of work organization. The introduction of steam-powered overhead logging methods provided industry with a rudimentary factory regime by 1930, accompanied by productivity gains and diminished workplace autonomy for loggers. After a Depression-inspired turn to selective logging with caterpillar tractors timber capital continued its refinement of clearcutting technologies in the post-war period, achieving complete mechanization of yarding with the automatic grapple. Driviing this process of innovation was a concept of industrial efficiency that responded to changing environmental conditions, product and labour markets, but sought to advance operators' class interests by routinizing production. The managerial component of the factory regime took shape in accordance with the principles of the early 20th century scientific management movement. Requiring expertise in the organization of an expanded, technologically sophisticated exploitation process, operators presided over the establishment of logging engineering programs in the region's universities. Graduates introduced rational planning procedures to coastal logging, contributing to a rate of deforestation that generated a corporate call for technical forestry expertise after 1930. Industrial foresters then emerged from the universities to provide firms with data needed for long-range investment decisions in land acquisition and management. Part II constitutes an environmental and political history of clearcutting. This reconstructs the process of scientific research concenring the factory regime's impact on the ecology of the Douglas fir forest, assessing how knowledge was utitized in the regulation of cutting practices. Analysis of business-government relations in British Columbia, Washington and Oregon suggests that the reliance of those client states on revenues generated by timber capital enouraged a pattern of regulation that served corporate rather than social and ecological ends.

Author : Jane Lister
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774820363

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Corporate Social Responsibility and the State by Jane Lister Pdf

Public concern about worsening global environmental and social conditions has led to skepticism about the efficacy of voluntary corporate social responsibility (CSR) programs, and to pressure for governmental CSR engagement. One of the first studies to investigate the role of the state in CSR, this book provides insight into the new governance model of private-public co-regulation emerging around the globe. Examining forest certification in Canada, the US, and Sweden, Lister draws on extensive interviews with experts to offer unique evidence on CSR governance, ultimately arguing the importance of CSR as a supplement to rather than a substitute for state regulation.

Author : Benjamin William Cashore,Graeme Auld,Deanna Newsom
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780300133110

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Governing Through Markets by Benjamin William Cashore,Graeme Auld,Deanna Newsom Pdf

In this important book, Lawrence Sager, a leading constitutional theorist, offers a lucid understanding and compelling defence of American constitutional practice. Sager treats judges as active partners in the enterprise of securing the fundamentals of political justice, and sees the process of constitutional adjudication as a promising and distinctly democratic addition to that enterprise. But his embrace of the constitutional judiciary is not unqualified. Judges in Sager's view should and do stop short of enforcing the whole of the Constitution; and the Supreme Court should welcome rather than condemn the efforts of Congress to pick up the slack. Among the surprising fruit of this justice-seeking account of American constitutional practice are a persuasive case for the constitutional right to secure a materially decent life and sympathy for the obduracy of the Constitution to amendment. No book can end debate in this conceptually tumultuous area; but Justice in Plainclothes is likely to help shape the ongoing debate for years to come.

Author : Roger Sands
Publisher : CABI
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781780641560

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Forestry in a Global Context by Roger Sands Pdf

From the time of hunter-gatherers to the present day, forests have played a vital role in the development of humanity and society. This broad introductory textbook sets world forestry in a social, environmental, historical, and economic context. The development of forests, grassland and humans is described from the Devonian through to the Age of Agriculture, covering the factors determining the distribution of forests, the classification of forest types, the value and benefits of the forest and the products of the forest and their associated trade. The book also explores issues such as sustainable forest management, current patterns of deforestation and reforestation, and future challenges facing our forests. Fully updated throughout and with new contributions from international experts, this second edition includes new chapters on climate change and international forest policy, and expanded coverage of forest products and bioenergy production.

Author : Kenneth Pickett Davis
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Science, Engineering & Mathematics
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Nature
ISBN : UOM:39015004576214

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Forest Management: Regulation and Valuation by Kenneth Pickett Davis Pdf

Foundations of forest management. Organization of the forest. Forest valuation.

Author : Berit Hauger Lindstad
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Forest policy
ISBN : WISC:89076076652

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A comparative study of forestry in Finland, Norway, Sweden, and the United States by Berit Hauger Lindstad Pdf

Author : Maria Teresa Cirelli,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
Publisher : Food & Agriculture Org.
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 9251046867

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Trends in Forestry Law in Europe and Africa by Maria Teresa Cirelli,Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Pdf

Recent years have witnessed a significant acceleration in the revision of forest laws around the world. Forest law increasingly recognizes the multiple interests involved in or affected by forest management, with greater attention given to the environmental and social roles of forest resources and to their sustainable management and use. In addition, renewed emphasis is being placed on the involvement of a wider range of public and private actors. Issues in which forest laws have been reoriented include local forest and private management, the environmental functions of forests, forest management planning and forest utilization contracts.

Author : Laura A. German,Alain Karsenty,Anne-Marie Tiani
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2009-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781849774512

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Governing Africa's Forests in a Globalized World by Laura A. German,Alain Karsenty,Anne-Marie Tiani Pdf

Many countries around the world are engaged in decentralization processes, and most African countries face serious problems with forest governance, from benefits sharing to illegality and sustainable forest management. This book summarizes experiences to date on the extent and nature of decentralization and its outcomes, most of which suggest an underperformance of governance reforms, and explores the viability of different governance instruments in the context of weak governance and expanding commercial pressures over forests. Findings are grouped into two thematic areas: decentralization, livelihoods and sustainable forest management; and international trade, finance and forest sector governance reforms. The authors examine diverse forces shaping the forest sector, including the theory and practice of decentralization, usurpation of authority, corruption and illegality, inequitable patterns of benefits capture and expansion of international trade in timber and carbon credits, and discuss related outcomes on livelihoods, forest condition and equity. The book builds on earlier volumes exploring different dimensions of decentralization and perspectives from other world regions, and distills dimensions of forest governance that are both unique to Africa and representative of broader global patterns. Authors ground their analysis in relevant theory while attempting to distill implications of their findings for policy and practice.

Author : Peter H. Pearse
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0774803363

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Introduction to Forestry Economics by Peter H. Pearse Pdf

Offers a good introduction to forestry economics in BC, including markets, supply, demand, pricing, non-market values, land allocation, forest rotations, regulations, property rights and taxes.

Author : John A. Stanturf
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 693 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780203497784

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Restoration of Boreal and Temperate Forests by John A. Stanturf Pdf

While the commitment to protect and restore forest ecosystems has become a policy goal in many countries since the Rio Conference, there is still no general consensus on what constitutes restoration. This authoritative reference presents the best practices for fostering increased sustainability, enhancing biodiversity, and repairing ecosystem func

Author : Donald K. Alper,Debra J. Salazar
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0774808160

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Sustaining the Forests of the Pacific Coast by Donald K. Alper,Debra J. Salazar Pdf

The forests of British Columbia and the U.S. Pacific Northwest have long been key to the biophysical and economic well-being and the cultural identity of the region. During the last two decades these forests have become the subject of increasing conflict due to competing demands, which are a reflection of conflicting economic interests and social/political values and visions. This book examines the sources of conflict and suggests steps toward resolving forest policy issues. It is unique in two ways: First, it examines forest policy in the context of a binational region, exploring how two political systems, facing similar cultural and economic challenges, have treated their forests. Second, the book brings consideration of environmental justice to forest policy discourse by highlighting perspectives of people--Natives, private non-industrial forest owners, citizen activists and workers in the emerging non-timber forest economy--whose voices are often unheard in forest policy debate.

Author : Thomas J. McEvoy
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781597266178

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Positive Impact Forestry by Thomas J. McEvoy Pdf

Positive Impact Forestry is a primer for private woodland owners and their managers on managing their land and forests to protect both ecological and economic vitality. Moving beyond the concept of "low impact forestry," Thom McEvoy brings together the latest scientific understanding and insights to describe an approach to managing forests that meets the needs of landowners while at the same time maintaining the integrity of forest ecosystems. "Positive impact forestry" emphasizes forestry's potential to achieve sustainable benefits both now and into the future, with long-term investment superseding short-term gain, and the needs of families -- especially future generations -- exceeding those of individuals. Thom McEvoy offers a thorough discussion of silvicultural basics, synthesizing and explaining the current state of forestry science on topics such as forest soils, tree roots, form and function in trees, and the effects of different harvesting methods on trees, soil organisms, and sites. He also offers invaluable advice on financial, legal, and management issues, ranging from finding the right forestry professionals to managing for products other than timber to passing forest lands and management legacies on to future generations. Positive Impact Forestry helps readers understand the impacts of deliberate human activities on forests and offers viable strategies that provide benefits without damaging ecosystems. It speaks directly to private forest owners and their advisers and represents an innovative guide for anyone concerned with protecting forest ecosystems, timber production, land management, and the long-term health of forests. Named the "Best Forestry Book for 2004" by the National Woodlands Owners Association