C - People and Forests in Harmony

C1 - Sustainable management models
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0003-C1 DEVELOPMENT OF SUSTAINABLE FOREST POLICY IN SIBERIA AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
National political and economic policies are having increasingly important impacts on forest resources and their management. This is true throughout the world and especially in eastern Asia, where Siberia is located. Here and ...
0004-C1 COMMUNITY FORESTRY IN CHINA: CURRENT STATUS AND PERSPECTIVES
On the basis of its long history, the characteristics of the development of community forestry in China can be summarized as follows: the adaptation of the management manner to the social structure of China’s primary stage of ...
0010-C1 CONFLICT MANAGEMENT IN PARTICIPATORY FOREST DEVELOPMENT: INSIGHTS FROM BANGLADESH 
In Bangladesh, the pressure on forest land and forests resources has greatly increased due to population pressure. The conventional forest management practices have become ineffective. Consequently, the effective forest cover of ...
0015-C1 COMMENT LA PRISE EN COMPTE DU PAYSAGE RÉPOND AUX ENJEUX SOCIAUX MULTIPLES DE LA FORÊT FRANÇAISE
Le rôle de la forêt ne se limite bien évidemment pas à l'accueil du public. Elle fait partie intégrante du paysage, du cadre de vie dont elle est une composante majeure : plus du quart du territoire français métropolitain est ...
0032-C1 LOCAL MANGROVE FOREST MANAGEMENT: SUCCESSFUL CONSERVATION OR EFFICIENT RESOURCE EXPLOITATION?
Recent environmental “narratives” suggest that local people make effective forest stewards. Local restoration and management of mangrove forests, in particular, is now widely advocated as a solution to achieve both economic and ...
0033-C1 DES BERGERS ET DES FORESTIERS : L’EXEMPLE DE L’AMENAGEMENT SYLVOPASTORAL DU HAUT-VERDON 
On a souvent opposé bergers et forestiers. Et pourtant, tout rapproche ces gens de la nature. Leur vision de celle-ci, leurs irremplaçables savoirs naturalistes, leur vie au grand air font d’eux des hommes du terroir. Ce ...
0041-C1 FORESTS FOR PEOPLE, THE CASE OF THE LUANGWA/ZAMBEZI RIVERS CONFLUENCE CATCHMENT AREA IN ZAMBIA.
The concept of managing the forest resource by the people for their own benefit is so critical, such that it requires every means available to be put into practice in order to realise the full potential of a given forest ...
0047-C1 L’AMENAGEMENT FORESTIER ET LE DEVELOPPEMENT PARTICIPATIF DES ZONES DE MONTAGNE AU MAROC 
Au Maroc, les zones de montagnes s’étendent sur 19 millions d’hectares, soit 28 % du territoire national. La forêt, avec 3,6 millions, y occupe une place importante sur le plan environnemental socio-économique et culturel. ...
0050-C1 EMPOWERING COMMUNITIES: INTEGRATING GEOMATICS IN FORESTRY
The Philippine population is increasing at an annual rate of 2.36%. Latest estimates of 2000 put the number at 76.3 million, and by 2029 the population is expected to more than double to 150 million. Current estimates reveal that ...
0052-C1 EVOLUTION OF ADAPTIVE FOREST MANAGEMENT IN A HISTORIC CANADIAN FOREST
In 1955, North Western Pulp and Power Ltd. hired Desmond Crossley, a Canadian Forest Service researcher, to be the Company’s first Chief Forester. Crossley established a programme of progressive and adaptive forest management for ...
0057-C1 ALDEA ETNOECOLÓGICA HACIA UN DESARROLLO FORESTAL PARTICIPATIVO, CASO VALLE REY, ESTADO MÉRIDA, VENEZUELA.
El sector Valle Rey se encuentra ubicado en la cuenca del Río Mucujún, específicamente en la margen derecha del río, en esta zona habitan familias que hacen uso de la tierra para el establecimiento de actividades productivas de ...
0059-C1 EL DESARROLLO FORESTAL SUSTENTABLE EN MÉXICO: UN ESFUERZO DE CAMBIO
Los desafíos de la globalización económica, la desertificación, la destrucción de los recursos naturales, y la pérdida de la biodiversidad, entre otros, han creado en México la necesidad cada vez más urgente de la búsqueda de un ...
0072-C1 SUSTAINABILITY IN TURKISH FOREST LEGISLATION AND ADMINISTRATION
Sustainability is a new concept in Turkish forestry. The legal and institutional framework of Turkish forestry needs to be modified by recognizing the principles of sustainable forest management. In this article, sustainable ...
0085-C1 FORESTS, SOURCE OF LIFE FOR THE FOREST-BASED INDUSTRIES 
The objective of the present study is to analyse and understand the relative dependency of different forest-based industries on forests and their survival strategies in the context of diminishing forest cover and non–availability ...
0088-C1 NABARD'S EXPERIENCES IN THE REHABILITATION OF INDIA'S FORESTS THROUGH PEOPLE’S PARTICIPATION
National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) is a development bank with a mandate to promote agriculture and rural development.Realising the importance of forests in livelihood security and sustainable ...
0089-C1 L’AMENAGEMENT CONCERTE : UNE NOUVELLE APPROCHE POUR LA GESTION DES FORETS SUD-MEDITERRANEENNES
L’aménagement forestier a connu une évolution différentielle entre le nord et le sud de la Méditerranée. Dans la rive nord de la Méditerranée, l’évolution du concept d’aménagement accompagne le développement socio-économique, ...
0092-C1 THE CHALLENGES OF FORESTRY RESEARCH IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: THE CASE OF NEPAL
Forestry research in developing countries like Nepal can contribute significantly to the development and management of forest resources. Low policy priority, lack of development vision on the part of planners and managers, lack ...
0098-C1 CHALLENGING THE NATIONAL LOGGING BAN IN CHINA: AN EXPEREIENCE OF COMMUNITY-BASED NATURAL FOREST MANAGEMENT IN SICHUAN PROVINCE
China’s National Logging Ban was issued in 1998 because of the degraded and deteriorated forests that had resulted from unsuitable and unsustainable management strategies and methodologies. However, many more conflicts between ...
0102-C1 THE IMPACT OF MANAGING A RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FOREST IN INDONESIA
The paper describes the management of the Wanagama I, the Research and Education Forest managed by the Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta. The main objective of managing the R&E Forest is to rehabilitate degraded and critical ...
0108-C1 COMMUNITY FOREST MANAGEMENT IN INDIA: THE VAN PANCHAYATS OF UTTRANCHAL
South Asia, more than any other region in the world, is a pot pourri of contradicting realities. It is a region with a common culture of collective sharing and management of common resources, both man-made and natural. However, ...
0124-C1 DECENTRALIZATION, LOCAL INSTITUTIONS AND FOREST MANAGEMENT IN CHITWAN DISTRICT OF NEPAL
In this paper, an attempt has been made to analyze the impacts and roles of decentralization in forest management in Nepal by examining some of the selected user group forestry programs of Chitwan, Nepal. The study results show ...
0131-C1 OPERATIONAL MODEL OF ADAPTIVE CO-MANAGEMENT OF INDIAN FORESTS – BASED ON CRITERIA AND INDICATORS
Adaptive management is viewed as a paradigm that can enhance efficiency of decision-making processes related to resource management in a multi-actor environment. For forest managers it opens new vistas for sustainable management ...
0161-C1 SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT IN NATIONAL FORESTS PROGRAMMES – A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE
The European Union gives high priority to the National Forest Programmes (NFP) in its recent regulations concerning forests. From the point of view of formulating and implementing NFPs in a European context, the concept of ...
0179-C1 CROSS-SECTORAL POLICY IMPACTS IN FORESTRY
This paper presents a summary of results from a survey of cross-sectoral policy impacts between forestry and other sectors. The aims of the survey were to unearth and collate examples of cross-sectoral policy impacts involving ...
0180-C1 PARTICIPATORY FOREST MANAGEMENT BASED ON LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY CONCEPTS
Deforestation and degradation of forests pose great threats to the conservation of a large number of endemic and endangered species and ecosystems. With a high density of population in most tropical countries, people sometimes ...
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0184-C1 THE NATIONAL PROGRAMME OF INCREASING FOREST COVER: A POLISH MODEL OF RATIONALISATION OF COUNTRY’S NATURAL SPACE STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF RURAL AREAS 
The paper presents the Polish model of rationalisation of the country’s natural space structure and development of rural areas in connection with the implementation of the concept of sustainable, balanced and multi-functional ...
0190-C1 PARTICIPATORY FOREST MANAGEMENT: THE JAMAICA FORESTRY DEPARTMENT EXPERIENCE
In recent years, community participation has become a fundamental strategy in developing and implementing national and regional forest management plans the world over. This paper documents the Jamaica Forestry Department’s ...
0196-C1 JOINT FOREST MANAGEMENT (JFM): THE NEED FOR A FRESH APPROACH
Joint Forest Management (JFM) has become almost synonymous with forest and natural resource management these days. Any approach or strategy for the protection, conservation and development of forest resources and forest ecosystem ...
0198-C1 ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT IN THE LAMA-PROTECTED FOREST IN PARTNERSHIP WITH LOCAL PEOPLE IN THE REPUBLIC OF BENIN 
The Lama-protected forest, located between 6°55’- 7°00’N and 02°04’- 02°12’ E, is one of the remaining dense forests that covered the so-called Dahomey Gap. It covers some 16,250 ha gazetted by law in 1946 as forest reserve. The ...
0200-C1 CONFLICT MANAGEMENT IN NATURE RESERVES IN THE UPPER REACHES OF THE YUAN-RED RIVER WATERSHED, SOUTHEAST YUNNAN PROVINCE, CHINA 
This paper describes and analyses problems, conflicts and issues in the context of social, economic, historic and cultural elements in the management and protection of nature reserves in the upper reaches of the Yuan-Red River ...
0201-C1 EXPERIENCES AND LESSONS ON THE PRACTICE OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN THE MANAGEMENT OF PROTECTED AREAS 
In China, since the beginning of the 1990s, co-management as a new and preferable approach to and measure for the management of protected areas has been accepted and adopted by research institutes and natural resource management ...
0214-C1 THE IMPACT OF LEASEHOLD FORESTRY ON LIVELIHOODS IN NEPAL
The objectives of leasehold forestry as implemented through the Hills Leasehold Forestry and Forage Development Project in Nepal are to alleviate poverty and improve ecological conditions. Degraded forest is leased for 40 years ...
0215-C1 UPDATING RULES AND REGULATIONS TO SUPPORT COMMUNITY-BASED FOREST MANAGEMENT IN GUINEA BISSAU
In Guinea Bissau, as many African countries, the management of natural resources, particularly forestry resources, has always been the responsibility of the Government. Most existing systems of land use were exclusively oriented ...
0223-C1 ADVANCEMENT OF FOREST VILLAGE COMMUNITIES THROUGH EFFECTIVE PARTICIPATION AND PARTNERSHIP IN STATE-OWNED FORESTRY ADMINISTRATION; TURKEY’S CASE
There is an increasing interest in strengthening and promoting different collaborative management systems in forestry practices. This is a response to society’s demand for conservation and sustainable development of resources ...
0240-C1 LES GROUPEMENTS FORESTIERS : UNE EXPERIENCE GUINEENNE D'IMPLICATION DES POPULATIONS DANS LA GESTION DURABLE DES RESSOURCES FORESTIERES ET DE LA DIVERSITE BIOLOGIQUE
Le secteur forestier guinéen a été caractérisé au cours de la période coloniale, et même après l'accession du pays à l'indépendance, par une gestion répressive de ses ressources, impliquant peu ou pas les populations riveraines. ...
0243-C1 COMMUNITY FOREST MANAGEMENT AND ACTION RESEARCH: EMERGING MODELS, EMERGING PARADIGMS
Arguably the most useful emerging models for future forest management are based on community participation because they address key challenges of our time: the needs to reconcile social conflicts over forest use and management ...
0244-C1 BANGLADESH FORESTRY: AN UNEXPRESSED LEGEND FOR LIFE
The interaction of environmental, social, economic, and political forces in Bangladesh, bearing 834 population per square kilometre and having 17.49% forestland compelled Foresters to launch a social forestry programme since ...
0249-C1 MULTI-STAKEHOLDER APPROACH TO WATERSHED MANAGEMENT: THE CASE OF THE SANREM CRSP/SOUTHEAST ASIA
The Sustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management Collaborative Research Support Program for Southeast Asia (SANREM CRSP/SEA) is a USAID funded project that aims to implement a comprehensive, farmer-participatory, ...
0252-C1 LES EXPLOITANTS FORESTIERS : DE NOUVEAUX GESTIONNAIRES EN AFRIQUE CENTRALE
Le mémoire dresse un bilan encourageant des premières actions de gestion forestière directement prises en main par les sociétés forestières attributaires de concessions forestières en Afrique Centrale, dans le cadre de la ...
0263-C1 ECONOMIC THEORY OF EMERGING FOREST PROPERTY RIGHTS
The dominant economic theory argues that bundles of private property rights will increase as the value of property increases. However, in recent decades, forest property rights have shown a different trend, the emergence or ...
0277-C1 COMMUNITY-BASED FOREST MANAGEMENT IN BUREAUCRATIC ORGANIZATIONS: ARE THEY COMPATIBLE?
Community-based forest management (CBFM) is widely argued to offer substantial promise as an approach for sustainable forest management. A number of countries are attempting decentralization of forest management to incorporate ...
0283-C1 FIRST NATION FORESTRY PROGRAM: AN INNOVATIVE INTEGRATED COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PARTNERSHIP APPROACH
Canada is home to over 600 First Nation bands from the Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. From time immemorial, forests have been a way of life for First Nations, bringing together cultural, spiritual and social values. They have ...
0289-C1 COMMUNITY FOREST MANAGEMENT AND THE STRUGGLE FOR EQUITY
Our central thesis is that “sustainable forest management,” including attention to human well-being, cannot happen without increased flexibility for those working in the field. The many national programmes purporting to ...
0293-C1 PARTICIPATORY FORESTRY APPROACHES IN BANGLADESH: THE PERSPECTIVE OF MYMENSINGH FOREST DIVISION
Bangladesh is one of the least developed countries in the world, with a high population density. Forest land occupies 16.85% of the total land of the country and per capita forest area is 0.022 ha – the lowest in the world. The ...
0308-C1 WATER POLICY AND PRICING TIMBER PLANTATIONS IN SOUTH AFRICA: IMPLICATIONS FOR SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY
As a percentage of total land area, South Africa’s forest area is relatively small, but it is considered one of the most productive fast-growing timber plantation areas in the world. South Africa is the largest industrial ...
0312-C1 JOINT FOREST MANAGEMENT IN SUB-HIMALAYAN WEST BENGAL, INDIA: CONDITIONS FOR INSTITUTIONAL SUSTAINABILITY 
Rapid destruction of forests – mainly in the tropical region – has become a cause for global concern. Joint Forest Management (JFM) – a participatory management regime involving collective action from the primary stakeholders – ...
0318-C1 BANGLADESH FORESTRY: PEOPLE’S PARTICIPATION, COMBAT DEGRADATION 
People’s participation in forestry in Bangladesh started in the 1970s with the settlement of nomadic shifting cultivators in villages. Since then many lessons have been learnt. The traditional foresters in the Bangladesh Forest ...
0321-C1 CONTRIBUTION OF COMMUNITY FORESTRY TO PEOPLE’S LIVELIHOODS AND FOREST SUSTAINABILITY: EXPERIENCE FROM NEPAL
This paper provides a brief overview of community forestry in Nepal, especially highlighting the main achievements, challenges and the contribution that Nepal's Community Forestry Programme has made to improve people’s ...
0329-C1 BUILDING PARTNERSHIPS FOR THE SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS
This paper describes two partnerships that were formed in order to proactively and voluntarily create a sustainable management framework for a rapidly developing high-value non-timber forest product (NTFP) – ground hemlock or ...
0330-C1 IMPLICATION DU PUBLIC DANS LA GESTION FORESTIÈRE : L’EXEMPLE DE LA FORÊT DE SOIGNES
Le Gouvernement de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale vient d’adopter le nouveau plan de gestion de la Forêt de Soignes qui définit, pour les 24 prochaines années, les grands axes de la gestion du massif. De par la vocation sociale ...
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0355-C1 USING COMMUNITY THEORY TO UNDERSTAND COMMUNITY-BASED FORESTRY
Forests are a dominant landscape feature and have played a role in meeting energy, housing, and other basic demands in nearly every culture. Despite the declining relative number of people who rely solely on forests for economic ...
0361-C1 PROCESSUS ET ENJEUX SOCIAUX DE LA CONCERTATION FORESTIÈRE À ANTICOSTI
Le territoire forestier a des significations multiples et les nouvelles approches forestières mettent de l’avant cette diversité par la gestion intégrée des ressources. Au Québec, la concertation avec les intervenants du milieu ...
0370-C1 SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH IN THE CANADIAN MODEL FOREST NETWORK
Sustainable forest management is composed of three areas: environment, economic and social. Research programs in forestry have focused on the environmental or biological aspects of forestry. The Canadian Model Forest Network has ...
0382-C1 GESTION PARTICIPATIVE DES FORETS, MOYENS D’EXISTENCE DES POPULATIONS ET LUTTE CONTRE LAPAUVRETE : EXPERIENCE CONDUITE DANS LA ZONE SUD DU BURKINA FASO, PAR LE PROJET AMENAGEMENT DES FORETS NATURELLES
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0392-C1 A FUNCTIONAL BASIS FOR PLANNING MANAGEMENT OF A FOREST
The challenge in forest management is to develop processes for designing management specific to each forest, to achieve a specified future condition in that forest, and to implement that planned management so as to create the ...
0398-C1 A REGIONAL ECONOMIC IMPACT MODELLING FRAMEWORK 
This paper presents a framework – transferable to other countries and jurisdictions – for constructing a regional economy-wide impact model that bridges the gap between expensive full survey techniques and less accurate synthetic ...
0406-C1 MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS FOR USE OF FORESTS AS A SOURCE OF LIFE
Forests in India used to be considered primarily as productive entities. They were looked upon as sources of fuel, fodder and timber, together with minor forest produces. In the late 1970s, the adoption of the concept of ...
0407-C1 GOVERNANCE REFORM IN THE FOREST SECTOR: A ROLE FOR COMMUNITY FORESTRY?
Tropical forestry is at a crossroads. Rarely, nowadays, can aid investments in the forest sector be justified solely in terms of sector-specific effects. The emphasis is rather on the part that forestry can play in the broader ...
0422-C1 LES GROUPEMENTS FORESTIERS :MODÈLE DE GESTION PARTICIPATIVE ET DURABLE 
Les groupements forestiers du Québec sont un modèle de gestion durable de la ressource forestière pour les communautés rurales. Consacrés à l’aménagement forestier intensif de la forêt privée, ils constituent également un exemple ...
0430-C1 COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT: THE MOUNT CAMEROON EXPERIENCE.
The decrease in wildlife populations has been acknowledged as a major concern not only by conservationists but also by local inhabitants whose livelihoods are directly affected. Even though local communities in Cameroon see the ...
0436-C1 REORIENTING FORESTRY EDUCATION TO SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT
This paper is about organizational re-engineering to strengthen forestry education in support of Sustainable Forestry or Sustainable Forest Management. It focuses on the change strategies adopted by the University of the ...
0437-C1 CONFLICT IN THE CO-MANAGEMENT OF FOREST RESOURCES
The concept of collaborative management (co-management) has gained prominence since the 1990s. In the forestry sector this concept has been increasingly applied. Based on experiences, it is clear that conflict cannot be neglected ...
0438-C1 AGRO, COMMUNITY OR SOCIAL FORESTRY IN MALAYSIA - TIME TO ACT
Forestry, today, in broader terms mark a great milestone in our continuing efforts and cooperation in the field of tropical forestry management. In our country we share a common heritage; the evergreen tropical rainforest and as ...
0443-C1 CONTRIBUTION À UNE DÉMARCHE STRUCTURÉE DE GESTION FORESTIÈRE INTÉGRÉE PARTICIPATIVE
L’objet de cet article est de présenter une approche structurée pour aborder la gestion forestière de manière intégrée et participative. Les outils associés à cette approche, de nature informatique en particulier, ont été ...
0467-C1 SCIERIE OPITCIWAN, UN PARTENARIAT PORTEUR D’AVENIR POUR UNE COMMUNAUTÉ ATIKAMEKW 
Au début des années 1990, la communauté Atikamekw d’Opitciwan, située en pleine forêt boréale québécoise, est confrontée à d’importants problèmes d’ordre socio-économique. Avec l’objectif de solutionner ces problèmes, le Conseil ...
0471-C1 COMMUNITIES AS FOREST MANAGERS AND OWNERS: COMMUNITY FORESTRY IN THE GAMBIA
After a period of government claim over the forests and thus interference in the traditional tenure systems, the late 1980s can be marked as the beginning of participatory forest management in Africa. As governments began to ...
0472-C1 IMPACTS OF GLOBALISATION ON FORESTRY: CONSIDERATIONS ON A COMPLEX TOPIC
This paper investigates the main impacts of the globalisation process on forestry. Forestry is still traditionally orientated on local, regional and, at most, national levels; most of its activities are still strongly related to ...
0498-C1 COMMUNITY FORESTRY IN BHUTAN HIMALAYAS: SUSTAINING LIFE AND ENVIRONMENT THROUGH PARTICIPATION
The kingdom of Bhutan is situated in the eastern Himalayas and maintains a forest cover of 72.5% to date and is one of the ‘Biodiversity hot spots’ of the world. Conservation of nature being the central tenet of Buddhism, this ...
0516-C1 PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN COMMUNITIES AND FORESTRY COMPANIES: SHARING LESSONS GLOBALLY
Partnerships are increasingly seen as a route to sustainable forest management. But experience in how best to make partnerships work for partners, forests and the public good tends to stay at local levels, giving little ...
0520-C1 VERS UNE DÉMARCHE DE RECHERCHE FORESTIÈRE PARTICIPATIVE
Les évolutions des conditions-cadres et des conditions socio-économiques importantes au Mali (régionalisation de la recherche agricole, dévaluation du franc CFA, décentralisation et création des communes rurales, mise en œuvre du ...
0528-C1 RECONFIGURING CONFLICTS: UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES ARISING WITH CO-MANAGEMENT OF FORESTS
Systems for co-management of forests have evolved as a pragmatic alternative to state control, buoyed by the insights gained into the potential of community-based management approaches. Co-management is thought to have equity and ...
0531-C1 L’EXPÉRIENCE DES COOPÉRATIVES FORESTIÈRES DU QUÉBEC
Le mémoire de la Conférence des coopératives forestières du Québec traite de la question de l’implication des populations dans la filière de la transformation des produits ligneux. Cette filière crée beaucoup de richesses, mais ...
0532-C1 CREATING PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS IN INTENSIVE FOREST MANAGEMENT
Despite the potential of Intensive Forest Management (IFM) to deliver higher per-hectare timber yields, and to allow the transfer of more forest land from commercial to recreational and wilderness uses, risk and uncertainty ...
0551-C1 MONITORING THE FOREST RESOURCES AND MANAGEMENT OF PRIVATE LANDOWNERS IN NAGANO, JAPAN 
Approximately 80% of Japan's wood demand is currently met with imported wood. Although private forestry is the most important factor in domestic wood production, more and more private forest landowners have reduced their ...
0556-C1 ONTARIO’S LIVING LEGACY: A LAND USE PLANNING SUCCESS STORY
This paper examines Ontario’s Living Legacy, an innovative land use policy for Ontario, Canada, that includes the biggest increase in the history of Ontario’s system of parks and protected areas. It also contains measures to ...
 
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0557-C1 THE ONTARIO FOREST ACCORD: A LANDMARK IN FOREST POLICY
A major Government land use planning process in Ontario, Canada, called ‘Lands for Life’ was implemented between February 1997 and May 1999. Its two main products were ‘Ontario's Living Legacy Land Use Strategy,’ which outlines ...
0558-C1 COMMUNITY FORESTRY AND COMMUNITY WELL-BEING IN THE UNITED STATES
During the last two decades of the twentieth century forest management in the United States of America was characterized by conflict and gridlock. Corporate restructuring and advances in milling technology led to mill closures, ...
0559-C1 IMPLEMENTING ACTIVE ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT IN ALBERTA’S BOREAL FOREST 
Rapid growth in oil and gas exploration and forestry in recent decades has brought into question the sustainability of land use practices in northeastern Alberta, Canada. While many current management strategies are criticized, ...
0563-C1 GESTIÓN DE RECURSOS NATURALES Y POBLACIÓN LOCAL: ACEBAL DE GARAGÜETA.
Este proyecto es una experiencia de participación de la población local y de las entidades implicadas en el desarrollo, la cultura o la naturaleza en la definición de la gestión de un espacio natural. El objetivo que se persigue ...
0574-C1 COMMUNITY-COMPANY PARTNERSHIPS AND SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT: CO-EXISTENCE OF ATIKAMEKW AND INDUSTRIAL WAYS OF MANAGING THE FOREST 
Partnerships between communities and forestry companies are becoming increasingly important in sustainable forest management. This paper examines the experience of the Atikamekw of Wemotaci in central Quebec who are establishing ...
0578-C1 RECOVERING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN HUMAN BEINGS AND FORESTS IN THE ALPS: SUSTAINABILITY, PARTICIPATION, PARTNERSHIP 
The ties between human beings and forests in temperate mountain areas have weakened over time. The relative importance of forest functions has changed: forestry timber generates very low returns, whereas recreational, ...
0586-C1 FOREST, PEOPLE AND LIVELIHOODS: THE NEED FOR PARTICIPATORY MANAGEMENT
In India it has been observed that wherever there is a large concentration of forest, there is also high concentration of tribal people in particular, and of the rural population in general. Rural people are dependent on forest ...
0594-C1 “SABER POPULAR” ALTERNATIVA MEXICANA PARA CONSERVAR EL BOSQUE TROPICAL CADUCIFOLIO
En este trabajo se demuestra como el “saber popular” esta involucrado en practicas de manejo conservacionistas en el bosque tropical caducifolio del Limón Cuahuchichinola, comunidad rural marginada del centro de México. ...
0617-C1 LARGE-SCALE FOREST MANAGEMENT EXPERIMENTS: ADVANTAGES AND PROBLEMS 
In the past decade, several large, integrated forest management experiments have been initiated in the Pacific Northwest, partially in response to contentious resource management debates. Their goal is to use alternative ...
0624-C1 MAINTAINING FOREST PRACTITIONER COMPETENCE THROUGH CONTINUING EDUCATION
Forest practitioners have a responsibility to the profession and the public to maintain their professional competence in their respective area of practice. It is hoped that this sense of responsibility stems from their knowledge ...
0627-C1 UNIONS IN AFFORESTATION SOLIDARITY IN KENYA: A MODEL FOR SUSTAINABLE INDUSTRIAL GROWTH IN THE WOOD AND FORESTRY SECTOR
The vision of the International Federation of Building and Wood workers (IFBWW) Global Wood and Forestry Program is to promote and enforce worker rights in the context of sustainable development by supporting sound practices that ...
0630-C1 PARTICIPATORY FOREST CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS: BANYANG-MBO WILDLIFE SANCTUARY
One of the greatest causes of resource degradation has been the activities of local people living adjacent to protected areas. Many studies have shown that gazetting areas in themselves does not lead to resource conservation. ...
0641-C1 MECHANISMS TO OPERATIONALIZE POLICIES
This paper is based on an initiative by Aga Khan Foundation (AKF) in India to operationalize policies. On 1 June 1990, the Ministry of Environment and Forest in India issued guidelines to involve village communities and voluntary ...
0643-C1 PARTICIPATORY FOREST MANAGEMENT APPROACH AND LIVELIHOOD SECURITY OF COASTAL DWELLERS IN BANGLADESH
Reflecting on the recent changes, particularly in the central coastal forest of Bangladesh, where 8 069 ha are now in the hand of encroachers, Participatory Forest Management (PFM) appeared as the best option for future ...
0646-C1 MANAGEMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES BASED ON CONTEMPORARY PRINCIPLES: THE FUTURE OF TURKISH FORESTRY AND THE NEED FOR CHANGE IN TURKISH STATE FORESTRY 
This paper evaluates recent developments in the management of forest resources and focuses on strategies related to participation, sustainability and privatization tools to verify whether forest practices are achieving the ...
0658-C1 LES COOPÉRATIVES : DES RACINES POUR DÉVELOPPER “ DES FORÊTS POUR LES GENS ”
La question pertinente est de savoir comment s’assurer que les efforts investis en aménagement forestier vont profiter aux populations actuelles et futures. Le présent mémoire s’attarde à l’apport potentiel de la formule ...
0667-C1 DEVELOPMENT OF NATIONAL FOREST POLICY IN UKRAINE: THE CONTRIBUTION OF SCIENCE
The current status of forest science in Ukraine and the contribution of scientific investigations into forest national policy development are described. Recent changes connected with transformation of the political and economic ...
0676-C1 PRINCIPLES AND PRACTICE OF JOINT FOREST MANAGEMENT IN MADHYA PRADESH, INDIA, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO BALAGHAT AND NARSINGHPUR DISTRICTS
Joint Forest Management (JFM) is being increasingly suggested as a solution to conservation problems of forests in India and developing countries. Philosophically the concept is ideal and needs to be supported without ...
0686-C1 UNDERSTANDING THE RELATIONS AMONG COMMUNITIES, ECONOMIES AND NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
A recurrent theme in the development of U.S. forest policies has been the assertion of a strong positive relation among communities, economies and natural resource management. Recent bioregional assessments in the Pacific ...
0687-C1 PROPUESTA DE UN PLAN DE PROTECCIÓN DE CUENCAS MEDIANTE EL ENFOQUE DE PLANIFICACIÓN COMUNITARIA PARTICIPATIVA: SUB-CUENCA DE LA QUEBRADA LA MUÑOZ, MUNICIPIO SANTOS MARQUINA DEL ESTADO MÉRIDA - VENEZUELA.
Nuestro mundo rápidamente cambiante, constituye un desafío incluso para la comunidad más remota que vive en las cuencas hidrográficas y nadie es inmune a las tensiones y conflictos ocasionados por tales cambios. El creciente ...
0706-C1 SOCIAL LEARNING AT WORK: A CASE STUDY OF COMMUNITY FORESTRY IN NEPAL
Because of their global environmental significance and direct contributions to local livelihoods, the management of natural resources has been a priority for policy discourses in recent years. There have been a variety of policy ...
0712-C1 COMMENT CONCILIER LA GESTION DURABLE, LA LUTTE CONTRE LA PAUVRETE ET LES RESULTATS DE RECHERCHE ? CAS DU PROJET 
Le projet « Appui à la gestion durable des forêts d’Ebolowa » (AGDFE) est né de la nécessité de passer à l'action. Son souci principal est la mise en pratique des découvertes de la recherche avec le Centre pour la recherche ...
0717-C1 THE ECOSYSTEM APPROACH IN PRACTICE: DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY IN CENTRAL LABRADOR, CANADA
The ecosystem approach has been adopted internationally as a strategy for the integrated management of lands and resources that promotes conservation and sustainable use in an equitable way. Within Canada, ecosystem-based forest ...
0729-C1 FOREST POLICY REFORMS IN INDIA – EVOLUTION OF THE JOINT FOREST MANAGEMENT APPROACH
India has 2.5% of the world’s geographic area and 63.73 million ha of forest area. The country supports 16% of the planet’s human population and 18% of the domestic animal population. The 1999 Forest Survey of India report ...
0734-C1 ASSOCIATION OF SELF-EMPLOYED FOREST-WORKERS IN TRINIDAD: A HISTORY OF COLLABORATION AND CONFRONTATION 
Woodworkers in Trinidad are self-employed forest workers who earn a livelihood by felling trees and converting them into logs or charcoal. Traditionally, they work independently but some of them have formed self-help ...
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0735-C1 FEDERAL PROGRAMS FOR PRIVATE FORESTS: THE US EXPERIENCE
Nearly half of the forest resources in the United States are owned by private landowners. These forests provide a variety of benefits to the individual owners, as well as significant benefits to society at large. Thus, it has ...
0736-C1 MUTUALLY BENEFICIAL PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN CORPORATE AND SMALLHOLDER PARTNERS: RELATING PARTNERSHIPS TO SOCIAL, ECONOMIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORS 
Demand for forest products will continue to grow as world population and incomes grow. The environmental and social impacts of planting schemes pose the greatest challenge to foresters in the new millennium. In the future, the ...
0743-C1 ADAPTIVE COMMUNITY FOREST MANAGEMENT: SOME EMERGING TRENDS IN INDIA
In India, as in other parts of the world, a large percentage of the rural population depends on forests critically for a vast range of forest products and services. This critical dependence shapes and defines the relationship of ...
0759-C1 AN ANALYSIS OF POLICY FRAMEWORK FOR MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTHWEST HIMALAYAS, INDIA
All over the world mountains are being increasingly recognized as distinct development areas from plains. Mountains pose specific challenges for development of policies, strategies and planning processes for integrated and ...
0768-C1 NON-TIMBER FOREST PRODUCTS AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN THE RUSSIAN FAR EAST
Over the past two years we have been involved in a community economic development project focused on the Kamchatka Peninsula and Sakhalin Island in the Russian Far East. Our project is actually one component of the larger project ...
0770-C1 RACHAT D'USINES FORESTIÈRES : IMPACTS SUR LES COMMUNAUTÉS ET L'AMÉNAGEMENT FORESTIER
À travers le monde, la destinée de nombreuses communautés est liée à la forêt et à son exploitation. Dans ces milieux, le contrôle des ressources forestières et des entreprises de transformation fait l’objet de nombreuses ...
0787-C1 BALANCING SOCIO-CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC NEEDS AND WITH FOREST CAPACITY - A CASE STUDY 
Natural resources are being degraded to meet the demand of the increasing population. This problem is compounded by the varied requirements of heterogeneous social groups of people, often enhanced by the globalisation and ...
0799-C1 GENDER ISSUES IN PARTICIPATORY FOREST MANAGEMENT IN INDIA 
The approach of involving the local people in the protection and management of forests is commonly referred to as joint forest management (JFM). As women constitute the most important user group collecting forest produce for ...
0801-C1 L’ORGANISATION COMMUNAUTAIRE POUR UNE GESTION PARTICIPATIVE DU TERRITOIRE 
L’industrie forestière, lors de la confection des plans généraux et des plans quinquennaux, a l’obligation de consulter les Premières Nations. Le problème rencontré est que l’industrie décide où et comment elle va exploiter la ...
0802-C1 UN MODELO DE RESPONSABILIDAD SOCIAL EMPRESARIAL EN UN PROYECTO FORESTAL
Los proyectos forestales poseen externalidades inherentes al cultivo y al largo plazo, que requieren ser administradas, para que el efecto social sea favorable para las partes interesadas. Este documento presenta un caso exitoso ...
0806-C1 ADAPTIVE COLLABORATIVE MANAGEMENT OF COMMUNITY FORESTRY: EXPERIENCES IN NEPAL, INDONESIA AND THE PHILIPPINES 
Forest-dependent communities are expected to cope with increasingly rapid changes in information, policy, tenure, markets, risks and opportunities. Furthermore, they are often expected to do so with limited support from ...
0812-C1 LARGE-SCALE COMMUNITY FOREST IN ONTARIO, CANADA – A SIGN OF THE TIMES
Five years ago Westwind Forest Stewardship Inc. was created to manage a 540 000 ha public forest in central Ontario. This was a result of a major policy shift in government that moved forest management from government to the ...
0813-C1 PARTICIPATORY FOREST MANAGEMENT IN TANZANIA
Forests play an important role in the livelihoods of Tanzanians. It is estimated that more than 90% of the population uses wood for domestic energy. Forests also provide various non-wood products and are important for water ...
0815-C1 POINTS DE VUE DES RURAUX AU SUJET DE LEUR PARTICIPATION DANS LA GESTION DES RESSOURCES NATURELLES FORESTIÈRES.CAS DES VILLAGES ZE ET ESSENG SITUÉES AUTOUR DE LA RÉSERVE DE BIOSPHÈRE DU DJA SUD CAMEROUN 
Le problème de cette étude tel que posé par la FAO (1995) est : « Comment utiliser les arbres les ressources naturelles forestières, pour améliorer à la fois l’environnement et le bien être économique des populations, tout en ...
0823-C1 FROM POLICIES TO PRACTICES: LESSONS FROM COMMUNITY FORESTRY IN MOZAMBIQUE
Community forestry and wildlife management (CFWM) is one of the strategies that the government of Mozambique has adopted to promote the sustainable use and conservation of the country’s forest resources. Under new polices and ...
0832-C1 LE PARTENARIAT TERRITORIAL : UNE RÉALITÉ À CONSOLIDER. 
La région de Charlevoix/Bas-Saguenay est délimitée au nord par le Fjord du Saguenay et à l’est par le fleuve St-Laurent. Le territoire d’appartenance des communautés locales correspond en bonne partie à celui du domaine ...
0838-C1 IMPLEMENTING TROPICAL FOREST SUSTAINABILITY MODEL IN CENTRAL INDIA
Tropical forest ecosystems constitute an integral part of life support system of more than 70 % of the population of India. These forests possess a stark uniqueness as regards their composition and resilience to natural changes. ...
0873-C1 SOCIAL FORESTRY IN THE SUDAN – ITS CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE POTENTIAL
The paper discusses the concepts and definition of social forestry from local and international perspectives. It summarizes the activities of social forestry in the Sudan, focusing on the experience and lessons learned from many ...
0892-C1 ASIAN DEVELOPMENT BANK FOREST SECTOR INVESTMENTS AND HUMAN WELFARE IN ASIA AND THE PACIFIC: AN UNTOLD STORY
This paper briefly describes the Asian Development Bank’s forest sector experience, and outlines the main issues facing the sector in the Asia and Pacific region. These issues include the slow and difficult progress made so far ...
0904-C1 WOOD SUPPLY FOR THE GROWING EUROPEAN PULP AND PAPER INDUSTRY
In Europe today, thanks to sustainable forest management and to sustainable wood usage practices, the net annual forest increment (793 million m³ over bark) is much higher than the annual felling rate (418 million m³ over bark). ...
0910-C1 COMMUNITY-BASED FOREST ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT FOR IMPROVED LIVELIHOODS AND BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION: A CASE STUDY FROM BWINDI WORLD HERITAGE SITE, UGANDA
Current trends in economic liberalization and governmental decentralization provide opportunities for local communities to develop small-scale forest product enterprises that improve their livelihoods and provide incentives to ...
0914-C1 NEW APPROACHES TO ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES IN BRITISH COLUMBIA’S COASTAL FORESTS
By the late 1990s nearly two decades of conflict and controversy had resulted in a stalemate between parties with competing interests in temperate old growth rainforests in British Columbia, Canada. In the years since, ...
0928-C1 THE CHANGING WORLD OF FOREST EDUCATION: GLOBAL TRENDS?
This paper attempts to analyse how forestry education institutes in different settings are coping with these changing demands on forests. Institutes that are able to survive, do this by broadening the career of forestry ...
0936-C1 THE CANADIAN FOREST PRODUCTS INDUSTRY’S EMERGING INDUSTRIAL MODEL FOR SUSTAINABILITY 
Over the last decade, the Canadian forest industry has evolved towards a new industrial model that acknowledges the interconnectivity of environment, economy and society. The emerging model rests on two pillars, “Embracing ...
0937-C1 CHINESE FORESTRY DEVELOPMENT TOWARD ECOLOGICAL PROTECTION: INITIATIVES, POLICIES AND TECHNIQUES
Major forestry policies that aim to promote ecological protection in China can be summarized as: 1) The Government is the major investment body for ecological forestry and social investment is complementary; 2) Marketing ...
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0942-C1 A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL FRAMEWORK AND ITS APPLICATION TO ABORIGINAL CO-MANAGEMENT ARRANGEMENTS IN THE FOREST SECTOR OF CANADA
The single dimensional typologies and narrow focus of existing comparative criteria have led to limited considerations of the complex dimensions of co-management regimes. As a means of addressing the need for a more comprehensive ...
0944-C1 MANEJO FORESTAL COMUNITARIO EN MÉXICO: UN MODELO EMERGENTE DE MANEJO SUSTENTABLE DE ECOSISTEMAS FORESTALES. 
La aparición en los últimos 25 años de un número apreciable de casos de bosques templados y tropicales manejados por las comunidades en tierras de propiedad común en México ofrece un ejemplo único en el mundo de cómo las ...
0950-C1 LA PARTICIPATION DU PUBLIC ET LE QUESTIONNEMENT SCIENTIFIQUE ISSU DES ASPECTS SOCIAUX DE LA FORESTERIE
La participation du public est une tendance lourde quant à l’intégration des aspects sociaux en gestion forestière. Des réalisations effectuées dans ce domaine au cours de la dernière décennie permettent des constats dans un ...
0951-C1 FORESTRY AND COMMUNITY IN THE TL’AZT’EN NATION
In 1982, Tl’azt’en Nation was granted the first Tree Farm License in British Columbia operated by a First Nation. Winning Tree Farm License 42 (TFL 42) (managed by Tanizul Timber Company on behalf of Tl’azt’en Nation) was the ...
0956-C1 DEVELOPING SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY FOR THE MAURICIE REGION OF QUEBEC
For the past three years, two Sustainable Forestry Management projects have been undertaken in the Mauricie region of central Quebec, in collaboration with Abitibi-Consolidated (ACI) and the Ministère des Resources naturelles du ...
0969-C1 MODELO ALTERNATIVO DE DESARROLLO REORIENTANDO USO DEL SUELO: 
Los países suramericanos enfrentan el gran paradigma del desarrollo sostenible, pues además de los problemas económicos y sociales, se suman los de orden ambiental, donde se enfrentan dificultades como la falta de conocimiento ...
0993-C1 LA COOPERACIÓN INTERREGIONAL EN LOS BOSQUES PRIVADOS DEL SUR DE EUROPA 
La cooperación forestal sido cuando mucho un asunto entre los investigadores o las instituciones oficiales, nunca entre los propietarios forestales privados. Con dos programas de cooperación comunitarios “Compostela bosque y ...
0997-C1 BIOSA – CREATING A WIN-WIN SITUATION FOR FORESTRY, NATURE PROTECTION AND SCIENCE
In the mid-1990s the conflicts between forestry and nature protection groups increased for a variety of reasons. Landowners saw themselves as victims of an aggressive nature protection policy that ignored their work and the ...
1001-C1 MEANINGFUL CONSULTATION WITH INDIGENOUS PEOPLES IN FOREST MANAGEMENT: A FOCUS ON CANADA
Indigenous Peoples occupy a unique place in the world’s forests and can play a key role in the management of those forests. At international, national and local levels, Indigenous Peoples and forest managers are struggling to ...
1004-C1 LES CONFLITS LIES A LA GESTION DECENTRALISEE DES RESSOURCES FORESTIERES AU CAMEROUN : ETAT DES LIEUX ET PERSPECTIVES
Au Cameroun, depuis 1990, on assiste à une intensification et diversification des conflits liés à la gestion des forêts. Entre 1990 et 1996, il y a eu une prédominance des conflits verticaux. et entre 1996 et 2000 des conflits ...
1023-C1 MANAGEMENT OF FORESTS (CPR) BY THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE: A SUCCESSFUL STORY OF TWO VILLAGES IN ANDHRA PRADESH, INDIA
In this paper a successful story of the two villages in India is presented with statistical data. Two types of forest management with the involvement of the people is discussed . The concentration is on management of common ...
1043-C1 SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT: FROM CONCEPTS TO PRACTICE IN TWO CANADIAN MODEL FORESTS
Over the past decade the Canadian Model Forest Network has devoted much of its effort to translating the concept of sustainable forest management (SFM) into practice. This work has involved a creative mixture of people, ...
1044-C1 AGROFORESTRY EDUCATION FOR SUSTAINABLE RURAL LIVELIHOODS: A CASE STUDY OF THE NYABYEYA FORESTRY COLLEGE, MASINDI, UGANDA
Education, development and rural livelihoods are interlinked. Technical-level training produces middle-level personnel who are essential in the process of improving agroforestry education. Currently, Nyabyeya Forestry College is ...
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