A - Forests for People | |
A2 - Economic aspects |
| DOCUMENTS FOUND : 72 | |
| 0014-A2 | MARKET INPERFECTIONS IN PHYTO-MEDICINAL TRADE IN INDIA – THE NEED FOR INSTITUTIONAL INTERVENTIONS |
| The phyto-medicinal market in India is plagued with imperfections. This article deals with the ways and means of removing such imperfections. Institutional intervention is essential to improve the economic conditions of the ... | |
| 0049-A2 | ROLE OF CHINESE MOSO BAMBOO IN A TOWNSHIP IN CHINA |
| Moso bamboo, Phyllostachys heterocycla var. pubescens, grows so widely in Guilin Township, Shaowu, Fujian, China that was chosen as the key to alleviate the poor of the local residents and enhance the revenue of the local ... | |
| 0064-A2 | EVALUACIÓN DE LA SEGMENTACIÓN DEL MERCADO DE ECOTURISMO EN EL PARQUE DE SUPERAGÜÍ |
| La finalidad del presente trabajo es hacer un análisis del mercado ecoturista en la isla de Superagüí, situada en la APA de Guaraqueçaba, PR. Fue hecha la evaluación de las expectativas de los visitantes de la localidad, ... | |
| 0066-A2 | CONNAÎTRE LES PERCEPTIONS DES GENS POUR UNE FORESTERIE ADAPTATIVE |
| En matière de gestion des ressources forestières des pays du Sud, et plus particulièrement dans les forêts soudaniennes et sahéliennes, la tendance est maintenant de mieux tenir compte des aspirations des communautés rurales ... | |
| 0067-A2 | THE ROLE OF FORESTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RURAL POPULATION IN DINDER BIOSPHERE RESERVE, SUDAN |
| Dinder National Park (1935) is included in the UNESCO list of the Biosphere Reserves(BR.) since 1979. As a BR, it should play three basic roles relating to conservation, development, and logestic support for comparative research ... | |
| 0076-A2 | LA SPIRULINE UNE ALGUE A PROTEÏNE AU TCHAD |
| La spiruline est un végétal le plus protéique et le plus riche en vitamine B.12. Elle représente cependant une source de revenu très importante, mais exploitée de manière artisanale par une petite couche de la société tchadienne. ... | |
| 0101-A2 | THE POSSIBLE DEVELOPMENT OF PHENOL-FORMALDEHYDE GLUE DERIVED FROM THE DISTILLED BLACK LIQUOR |
| There has been a significant development of pulp and paper industries in Indonesia during the last decade. At least two million tons of paper are produced annually using particular raw materials, e.g. fast-growing wood species, ... | |
| 0106-A2 | ECONOMIES OF PRIVATE TREES: IMPACT ON INCOME DISTRIBUTION CASE STUDY: BADIKHEL, (LALITPUR, NEPAL) |
| It is obvious in South Asia that land ownership is inequitable. This paper looks at types of landholding by wealth class and quantifies the impact of income from private trees. It also assesses the possession of private trees by ... | |
| 0107-A2 | INTERREGIONAL COMPARATIVE MEASURES OF PRODUCTIVITY IN THE CANADIAN TIMBER-HARVESTING INDUSTRY: A MULTILATERAL INDEX PROCEDURE |
| Timber harvesting is a complex subsystem of the forest sector’s system of operations. It involves several sequences of operations that include environmental quality considerations (assessment), planning, road construction, ... | |
| 0120-A2 | ABOUT A PROBLEM OF PERFECTION CHIPPER EDGERS FOR MANUFACTURE OF SAW-TIMBERS AND TECHNOLOGICAL CHIPS |
| The aggregate method of processing logs and bars for saw-timbers and technological chips sold on chipper edgers promotes creation wasteless of technology and automation of productions of formation of section of ... | |
| 0122-A2 | THE IMPACTS OF FOREST INDUSTRIES AND WOOD UTILIZATION ON THE ENVIRONMENT |
| The impacts of forest industries and wood utilization on the environment were considered. The operational activities of sawmills, plywood veneer, particleboard and pulp/paper mills in Nigeria were reviewed. The effects of tree ... | |
| 0123-A2 | ROLE OF FORESTS IN POVERTY ALLEVIATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN WEST AFRICA |
| Forests in West Africa form a veritable base from which substantial proportion of the populace derives their source of livelihood. The forests have over the years contributed immensely to the socio-economic development in all the ... | |
| 0137-A2 | ANTIOXIDANTES Y BIOPRESERVANTES PARA MADERA A PARTIR DE LA CORTEZA DE PINUS CARIBAEA VAR. HONDURENSIS MOR. |
| Se investiga la posibilidad de usar extractos de la corteza del Pino caribe (Pinus caribaea var. hondurensis Mor.) como fuente de antioxidantes y como preservantes de madera de origen natural (biopreservantes), considerando el ... | |
| 0162-A2 | MAXIMIZING THE PLYWOOD PRESSING PROCESS |
| The work presents the preliminary results of the maximizing for the plywood pressing process through experimental-statistic methods. ... | |
| 0166-A2 | FORESTS: DEALING WITH CONFLICTING INTERESTS |
| This text is intended, in its singularity and in its juxtaposition, to provoke thought about already unrecognised, generic conservation and solutions for disconnecting plant resource extraction and impacts thereof on land in the ... | |
| 0167-A2 | VALORACIÓN DE LA MADERA EN PIE. UNA ALTERNATIVA PARA EL MANEJO ADECUADO DE LOS RECURSOS FORESTALES |
| A partir de un estudio de caso, que busca impulsar una propuesta de desarrollo forestal basada en el uso de los recursos forestales, se plantea la necesidad de definir un precio para la madera en pié como mecanismo facilitador ... | |
| 0175-A2 | ECONOMIC ADVANCEMENT AND POVERTY ERADICATION AMONG THE ABORIGINES IN MALAYSIA |
| Malaysia has made great achievements in terms of implementing poverty eradication programmes in both the rural and urban sectors. By 1999, the incidence of poverty had declined to 7.5% among its population of 22 million. ... | |
| 0191-A2 | MEDICINAL USE OF FOREST TREES AND SHRUBS BY INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF NORTHEASTERN NORTH AMERICA |
| The first documented use of indigenous North American medicine was the Iroquois cure of Jacques Cartier’s crew from scurvy in the winter of 1536 at Stadacona (Québec). In northeastern North America, forest-dwelling indigenous ... | |
| 0204-A2 | NUEVO PERFIL DE DIENTES DE SIERRA DE CINTA PARA AMAZONÍA BRASILEÑA - EVALUACIÓN PRELIMINAR |
| Este trabajo tiene como objetivo dar condiciones de perfeccionamiento técnico al sector de preparación de las láminas de sierras de cinta, consolidando un perfil de diente más apropiado para el aserrío de maderas tropicales y ... | |
| 0264-A2 | BENDING PROPERTIES OF LAMINATED VENEER LUMBER: EFFECT OF KERUING (DIPTEROCARPUS SPP.) REINFORCEMENT AND CYCLIC-BOIL-DRY-TREATMENT |
| Low density wood such as Pulai (Alstonia spp), Sesendok (Endospermum spp) and Kekabu Hutan (Bombax spp) have never been regarded as structural material due to their inferior strengths. Converting these timbers into LVL and ... | |
| 0275-A2 | PRODUITS FORESTIERS NON LIGNEUX (PFNL) OU PRODUITS DE SUBSISTANCE ? LECONS A TIRER DE LA REPUBLIQUE DEMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO. |
| Les recherches forestières s’accordent aujourd’hui sur l’importance sociale, économique, culturelle et écologique que jouent les produits forestiers non ligneux (PFNL). La valorisation de l’utilisation soutenable de ces derniers ... | |
| 0281-A2 | LE ROTIN ET SES FONCTIONS VITALES DANS LA VILLE DE KINSHASA |
| La déforestation dans l’hinterland de la ville de Kinshasa a plusieurs causes, notamment l’exploitation industrielle et commerciale du bois, la demande urbaine en bois, le système agraire accompagné de la ruralisation, la ... | |
| 0286-A2 | NOUVELLES PERSPECTIVES POUR LES FILIÈRES FORESTIÈRES TROPICALES |
| Depuis un certain nombre d’années, les filières bois paraissaient s’être figées entre le monde des pays développés et celui des pays en développement. Pendant cette période, s’est préparée la mise en place de nouvelles ... | |
| 0292-A2 | ECO -TOURISM - A CASE STUDY |
| Success of any scheme concerning conservation and education in relation to wildlife needs people participation. But it is very difficult to achieve it specially when the villagers are uneducated, poor and dependent on forest. ... | |
| 0305-A2 | LE BOIS-ÉNERGIE : VERS UNE DIVERSIFICATION DE LA FORÊT ? |
| En Région wallonne (Sud de la Belgique), le bois en tant que source d’énergie est bien connu. De nombreux ménages se chauffent, au moins partiellement, au bois (feux ouverts, poêles et inserts principalement). Les techniques ... | |
| 0315-A2 | FOREST-BASED POVERTY REDUCTION IN LESS DEVELOPED COUNTRIES: SOME FACTS, FIGURES, CHALLENGES AND POSSIBLE WAYS FORWARD |
| There is an increasing consensus about several aspects of the forestry-poverty problematic, i.e. Poverty includes both a welfare and asset dimension; The above requires forests to be seen as both goods and services in and ... | |
| 0316-A2 | HACIA UNA ORDENACIÓN COMARCAL DEL RECURSO MICOLÓGICO EN TIERRAS ALTAS. |
| Se presenta un estudio previo de la potencialidad micológica de la comarca de Tierras Altas, área de 560 km2 situada en el noreste de Soria (España), caracterizada por su fuerte despoblación. Zona antaño ganadera y en la ... | |
| 0317-A2 | ORDENACIÓN DEL RECURSO MICOLÓGICO EN LA COMARCA DE PINARES DE SORIA-BURGOS. |
| En otoño de 2001, se realizaron 248 encuestas a recolectores de hongos en la comarca de Pinares de Soria-Burgos (España), con el fin de aportar información para ordenar el recurso micológico en esta zona tradicionalmente forestal ... | |
| 0335-A2 | FUTURE FIBERS FOR PULP MILLS IN BANGLADESH |
| Bangladesh are facing acute shortage of fiber for pulp and paper industry. On the other hand, the demand of paper and paper products is increasing day by day. Nonwood or agro-based fibers are potential sources for pulp ... | |
| 0336-A2 | LES PLANTATIONS FORESTIÈRES AU SERVICE DU DÉVELOPPEMENT DURABLE DES PAYS TROPICAUX ? |
| Les plantations forestières sont en forte expansion dans les régions tropicales et subtropicales, en particulier en raison de l’augmentation de la demande en produits ligneux. Ces plantations font toutefois l’objet de ... | |
| 0345-A2 | PLANTACIONES FORESTALES E INDUSTRIAS ASOCIADAS EN VENEZUELA ASPECTOS SOCIO-ECONÓMICOS |
| Venezuela posee más de la mitad de su territorio bajo cubierta boscosa, pero las altas tasas de deforestación han causado la reducción de especies tradicionalmente explotadas, por lo que la producción nacional de madera rolliza ... | |
| 0351-A2 | WATERSHED MARKETS – CONNECTING LAND MANAGERS AND WATER USERS TO RAISE WELFARE? |
| Land and water are intimately intertwined. Appropriately managed land provides a number of water benefits valued by humans. Clean water, regulated water flows, reduced flooding, healthy aquatic habitats are just a few of the most ... | |
| 0353-A2 | ANALYSE DE LA FILIÈRE DES PLANTES AROMATIQUES ET MÉDICINALES EN TUNISIE |
| Malgré l’importance des ressources en plantes aromatiques et médicinales dont recèlent les forêts tunisiennes, le mode de leur exploitation actuelle par un nombre réduit d’entreprises engagées dans cette filière entrave les ... | |
| 0354-A2 | FOREST RELIANCE AND COMMUNITY WELL-BEING IN RURAL CANADA |
| The forest products sector is a major employer in much of rural Canada, and it is often assumed by policy makers that increased timber harvest is a viable means of rural economic development. Despite burgeoning research in the ... | |
| 0365-A2 | TOWARDS IMPROVED CLASSIFICATION OF NON-WOOD FOREST PRODUCTS THROUGH EXISTING INTERNATIONAL PRODUCT CLASSIFICATION SCHEMES |
| The purpose of the paper is to contribute towards improving the identification, classification and visibility of non-wood forest products (NWFPs) in international trade statistics by making proposals for amendments to existing ... | |
| 0410-A2 | TOTAL ECONOMIC VALUE OF FOREST RESOURCES IN TURKEY |
| Forests, like other natural resources, perform a set of functions to meet the needs of people. It is usually impossible to state the monetary value of all the goods and services provided by forest resources. As a research area, ... | |
| 0412-A2 | SOCIO-ECONOMIC, CULTURAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC STRUCTURES OF TURKISH FOREST VILLAGES AND DEVELOPMENT APPROACHES |
| Today, there are about 19 020 forest villages and 7 145 000 villagers in Turkey. This is nearly half of total rural population. They get the smallest portion of national income, US$200 per capita per year. In addition, the rate ... | |
| 0413-A2 | DETERMINATION OF THE ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE AT FOREST ENTERPRISES: A CASE STUDY FROM TURKEY |
| Main purpose of this research is to determine the economic performance at forest enterprises. According to the absolute economic results, both Artvin and Ardanuç SFEs had been successful between 1991 and 1995, except that Ardanuç ... | |
| 0424-A2 | THE USES OF FOREST LEAVES IN OMO FOREST RESERVE, OGUN STATE, NIGERIA |
| A survey of the use of forest plant leaves in household nutrition and health care in Omo Forest Reserve was carried out. The result shows that 39 plant species in 27 families are used either as food or for health care or both. Of ... | |
| 0435-A2 | ECO-TOURISM AND SUNDARBAN RESERVED FOREST IN BANGLADESH |
| Eco-tourism is a new form of tourism that has developed very fast in the last 15 years. There are many forms of tourism recently developed, but eco-tourism has been found most popular and acceptable to many countries. This year ... | |
| 0446-A2 | RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT AND UTILIZATION STRATEGY OF NON TIMBER FOREST PRODUCT: INDONESIA CASE |
| Forestry development in the past often forget that forest has multi-resources and multi-function, in addition to be inclining awkward with demarcation extremely on determination of forest function. As a consequence, it is over ... | |
| 0457-A2 | PAUVRETÉ ET EXPLOITATION FORESTIÈRE EN RÉPUBLIQUE DÉMOCRATIQUE DU CONGO |
| La misère dans laquelle vivent certaines populations de notre planète est due en partie au manque de structure d'exploitation des potentialités que regorge leur environnement. La forêt considérée comme une véritable source de ... | |
| 0465-A2 | DENDROENERGÍA Y DESARROLLO INDUSTRIAL SOSTENIBLE EN CUBA |
| La economía cubana depende de la importación de petróleo crudo y sus derivados, que son los portadores energéticos casi exclusivos de los principales sectores productivos: agricultura, industrias de transformación, y transporte. ... | |
| 0476-A2 | IMPACTS DES PROJETS D'ÉQUIPEMENT D'HYDRO-QUÉBEC SUR LA FORÊT QUÉBÉCOISE ET MESURES D'ATTÉNUATION |
| Hydro-Québec a pour mandat de produire, de transporter et de distribuer l'électricité nécessaire à la population et à l'industrie du Québec. L'entreprise exploite actuellement 80 centrales, 32 000 kilomètres de lignes de ... | |
| 0488-A2 | ASSESSMENT OF THE DIMENSIONAL STABILITY OF CEMENT - BONDED PARTICLEBOARD FROM POST - HARVEST BANANA STEM RESIDUES AND SAWDUST |
| Thin-size (6mm thickness), dense homogenous cement - bonded boards were produced from mixed shredded flakes of banana stem and sawdust of mixed hardwood species. The influences of weight proportion of the two types of ... | |
| 0517-A2 | BIODIVERSITE ET DEVELOPPEMENT SOCIAL : CAS DU DJA ET DU NIMBA |
| Même si on peut admettre qu’ils aient contribué à l’amélioration des conditions de vie des hommes et des femmes des pays concernés, les projets de conservation de la diversité biologique des réserves du Dja (Est du Cameroun) et ... | |
| 0533-A2 | SUPPORTING THE EMERGENCE OF A GLOBAL NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCT INDUSTRY: MOVING FROM SUBSISTENCE HARVEST TO ECONOMIC SECURITY |
| Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) are emerging as ideal tools for community forestry both in industrial and non-industrial countries. The NTFP industry has shown to be beneficial to biodiversity conservation, socio-economic ... | |
| 0535-A2 | POSIBILIDADES DE LA PRODUCCIÓN DE GOMA DE BREA (CERCIDIUM PRAECOX) EN EL NOROESTE DE ARGENTINA |
| La brea, Cercidium praecox (Ruiz y Pav.) Burkart y Carter, es un árbol con una amplia distribución en el Noroeste de Argentina cuyo exudado vascular (goma) ha sido aprovechado tradicionalmente por las comunidades campesinas de ... | |
| 0566-A2 | MANAGING FOREST INFORMATION TO SUSTAIN ONTARIO’S FORESTS |
| Sustainable forest management in Ontario is a shared responsibility of government, forest industry and the public. Available and accessible forest information is critical for sustainable forest management. Ontario has developed ... | |
| 0576-A2 | TRADE-OFFS BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN FORESTRY – SETTING THE STAGE AND SOME GUIDING PRINCIPLES |
| There is a general agreement that for land and natural resource management (NRM) to succeed, they must combine sustainablility, the accommodation of different values and values, and, thus, participatory decision-making processes. ... | |
| 0577-A2 | TRADE-OFFS BETWEEN CONSERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN FORESTRY – A BRIEF REVIEW OF APPROACHES TO ACHIEVE THEM |
| The basic assumption of Integrated Conservation and Development Programmes (ICDPs) is that poor individuals whose livelihoods depend heavily on the use and trade of natural resources cannot afford to reduce their level of ... | |
| 0603-A2 | VALORACIÓN ECONÓMICA DE BIENES Y SERVICIOS AMBIENTALES DE UN BOSQUE TROPICAL |
| En el presente trabajo se realizó la valoración económica de los bienes y servicios ambientales generados en el bosque tropical del ejido Noh-Bec, Estado de Quintana Roo, aplicando las técnicas de Valoración Contingente. Para ... | |
| 0604-A2 | FOOD QUALITY OF INDIGENOUS FRUITS AND VEGETABLES FROM WESTERN AND CENTRAL AFRICA: OPPORTUNITIES FOR COPING WITH THE HIV/AIDS THREAT, RAINFOREST BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION AND LIVELIHOOD IMPROVEMENT |
| Suboptimal utilization of forest food products and the growing HIV/AIDS threat to agriculture and food and nutritional security in West and Central Africa add further burdens to efforts towards poverty alleviation and mitigation ... | |
| 0638-A2 | INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE FOREST SECTOR: FUTURE CHALLENGES |
| The paper discusses some of the challenges that the rapid development of information and communication technology (IT) is likely to present to world forest sector. The focus is on the impacts of IT on the consumption of ... | |
| 0653-A2 | POTENTIALITÉS FORESTIÈRES ET ORGANISATIONNELLES POUR RÉDUIRE LA PAUVRETÉ |
| Le Réseau pour le développement forestier durable dans les Amériques est une initiative de la Société de coopération pour le développement international (SOCODEVI) et de l’Alliance coopérative internationale des Amériques. ... | |
| 0660-A2 | ASSESSING ETHNOSILVICULTURAL KNOWLEDGE: A VIABLE APPROACH TO INTEGRATE NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS INTO FOREST MANAGEMENT |
| Ethnosilvicultural knowledge from Canadian Aboriginal communities and community forest users of Nepal are assessed in the context of multiple-product forest management. Both cases showed the richness of such knowledge, indicating ... | |
| 0683-A2 | IMPORTANCE OF FORESTS AND FORESTRY IN FINNISH LAPLAND, BETWEEN NORTHERN TIMBERLINE AND THE ARCTIC CIRCLE |
| Lapland is one of the northernmost parts of the world with a forest cover. The forests belong to the boreal coniferous forest zone. ... | |
| 0692-A2 | EFFECTS OF FINE PARTICLE CONTENT ON THE PROPERTIES OF FIVE-LAYERED ORIENTED STRAND BOARD |
| The objective of this study was to develop structural-grade smooth surface oriented strand board (OSB) from rubberwood (heavea brasiliensis). The effects of fine layer content on strength and dimensional stability of the boards ... | |
| 0710-A2 | LES VERTUS DES PFNL DANS LA ZONE FORESTIERE HUMIDE DU CAMEROUN ET L’IMPACT DE LEUR EXPLOITATION SUR L’ENVIRONNEMENT. |
| La zone forestière humide du sud Cameroun est d’une richesse biologique et écologique remarquable. La vie des populations rurales en est intimement liée au triple plan de l’alimentation, de la santé et des revenus. La crise ... | |
| 0841-A2 | INDIGENOUS CULTURES AND FOREST MANAGEMENT |
| The concept of the forests as a source of life cannot be isolated from the integrity of nature that corresponds to the integrity of the physical body and cultural personality of local and indigenous peoples. As a source of life, ... | |
| 0843-A2 | THE ROLE OF FORESTRY EXTENSION IN DEVELOPING RURAL COMMUNITIES IN WESTERN SUDAN - A CASE STUDY: GUM ARABIC PRODUCERS’ ASSOCIATIONS IN NORTHERN KORDOFAN |
| The problems of forest degradation and insecurity of supply of forest products and services in fragile environs of the Gum Belt in Central Sudan are appreciated by local communities and by federal and state forest authorities. ... | |
| 0862-A2 | QUASI OPTION VALUE OF BIODIVERSITY OF A TROPICAL FOREST: ATHIRAPPALLY FORESTS IN KERALA STATE, INDIA |
| Biodiversity of tropical forests is under threat because of increasing human population and rapid developmental activities. The tropical forests in the Western Ghats of India are one of the world’s biodiversity hotspots. The ... | |
| 0886-A2 | CUTTING FORCES FOR TENSION WOOD AND NORMAL WOOD OF MAPLE |
| This research measured cutting forces for normal and tension wood of hard maple (Acer saccharum Marsh.) and red maple (Acer rubrum L.). Wood blocks were machined to simulate sawing by using a single bandsaw tooth mounted on a ... | |
| 0889-A2 | PARTNERING WITH UNDERSERVED COMMUNITIES IN COMMUNITY FORESTRY: SOME LESSONS FROM NORTH AMERICAN EXPERIENCE |
| In recent decades, community forestry has challenged the management and study of forest resources based on technical expertise.This paper discusses challenges, institutional barriers and lessons learned about how to engage in ... | |
| 0915-A2 | GUARDIANS OF THE FOREST |
| Bhimashankar forest is situated in the remote, hilly, steeply sloping, high rainfall Western Ghat area of Ambegaon block of Pune district, Maharashtra, India. It is a small but good patch of virgin, evergreen, four-tiered, cloud ... | |
| 0918-A2 | STRATEGIE DE VALORISATON DU BOIS DES FORETS COMMUNAUTAIRES AU CAMEROUN |
| Le Cameroun possède dans le grand bassin du Congo la forêt la plus menacée par les pressions combinées de l’agriculture et des groupes industrielles. Les populations ne bénéficient pas directement des retombés liées à cette ... | |
| 0958-A2 | VALORACIÓN ECONÓMICA DEL RECURSO HÍDRICO, CUENCA DEL RÍO CALAN, HONDURAS. |
| El objetivo de este estudio fue valorizar el suministro de agua potable de la cierta parte de la población de Siguatepeque, para determinar el Pago por Servicios Ambientales (PSA) en la cuenca del Río Calan. Inicialmente, se ... | |
| 0966-A2 | AVANTAGES FORESTIERS, INDUSTRIELS DES MESURES DE LA COULEUR DES BOIS. |
| Les avantages forestiers et industriels de la mesure de la couleur des bois résident dans une meilleure connaissance et valorisation des bois tempérés et tropicaux. Les utilisations des bois sont liées, pour beaucoup, à leur ... | |
| 0968-A2 | EFFECT OF HIGH TEMPERATURE DRYING ON BENDING AND SHEAR STRENGTHS OF WESTERN HEMLOCK LUMBER |
| Three hundred pieces of N°2 and Better nominal 42 by 145 mm (nominal 2 by 6 inches) by 2400 mm western hemlock, dimension lumber was tested in bending and shear after drying at conventional (82°C) and high (116°C) temperatures. ... | |
| 0998-A2 | ATTITUDES TOWARDS THE USE OF MEDICINAL PLANTS FOR DISEASES IN THE SIRUVANI HILLS OF WESTERN GHATS, INDIA |
| This paper aims to reveal the attitudes towards the use of plants to treat diseases among tribal and non-tribal people in terms of age, sex, education and income. Due to high expenses, the tribal people refuse to use modern ... | |
| 1039-A2 | WOOD PRODUCTS AND SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION |
| Affordable, safe and environmentally friendly housing is a basic human need and has become the social priority of most countries around the world. Wood frame construction has been the mainstay of the North American residential ... | |
| 1040-A2 | MARKETING PRACTICE OF FOREST ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES IN CHINA |
| he paper discusses marketing practice of forest environmental services in China, in accordance with Pigou's tax, governmental measures and market-based instruments are analyzed, the constrains and opportunities are presented in ... | |
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