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Towards sustainable forest management strategies with MOEAs [PDF]

open access: yesProceedings of the 2020 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, 2020
Sustainable forest management is a crucial element in combating climate change, plastic pollution, and other unsolved challenges of the 21st century. Forests not only produce wood - a renewable resource that is increasingly replacing fossil-based materials - but also preserve biodiversity and store massive amounts of carbon.
Suominen, Antti   +6 more
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Multi-stakeholder collaboration in Russian and Swedish model forest initiatives : adaptive governance toward sustainable forest management? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Building the adaptive capacity of interlinked social and ecological systems is assumed to improve implementation of sustainable forest management (SFM) policies.
Angelstam, Per   +11 more
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FOREST CRIMES AS A THREAT TO SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT

open access: yesСибирский лесной журнал, 2016
From ancient times to the present day, forest public relations has been an issue on the agenda. This relationship’s purpose was initially needed for shelter and nutrition; however today this process has changed with urbanization, overpopulation and understanding the new functions of forests.
S. Özden, S. Ayan
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Access to forest resources and forest-based livelihoods in highland Kafa, Ethiopia : a resource management perspective [PDF]

open access: yes
Ethiopia's forest resource base, which is mostly found in the southwestern highlands, supports a multitude of agricultural production systems. However, similar to the trend in other parts of the developing world, deforestation has taken a heavy toll in
Zewdie, Yihenew
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Role of non-wood forest products for local livelihoods in countries with transition and market economies: case studies in Ukraine and Sweden [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
The role of non-wood forest products (NWFPs) in local economies differ in time and space. We analysed Ukrainian and Swedish national policies and management rules related to the use of NWFPs, and described how different forest stakeholders utilised NWFPs
Angelstam, Per   +9 more
core   +1 more source

The next steps : an independent review of sustainable development in the English regions [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Summarised in 'The next steps : an independent review of sustainable development in the English regions : executive summary'.The Sustainable Development Commission's independent review of the progress of sustainable development in the English regions ...
Sustainable Development Commission
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Forest Governance in Nepal concerning Sustainable Community Forest Management and Red Panda Conservation [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
This paper investigates issues confronting forest management and sustainability, focusing on the governance of the community forest user group (CFUG) initiative in Nepal.
Shrestha, Anita   +9 more
core   +1 more source

Hierarchical forest management planning and sustainable forest management in the boreal forest [PDF]

open access: yesThe Forestry Chronicle, 2001
In keeping with international efforts to encourage sustainable forest management, new legislation, regulations, and certification criteria have been brought into effect across boreal regions of the world in the past decade or less. These initiatives have established hierarchical systems of forest management planning that consider multiple uses of the ...
Tittler, R., Messier, C., Burton, P.J.
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ENVIRONMENTAL AND FINANCIAL SUSTAINABILITY OF FOREST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES [PDF]

open access: yesNatural Resource Modeling, 1997
One of the guiding themes for forest management policy throughout much of North America is sustained yield. The basic premise behind this theme is that a constant or nondeclining flow of services from the forest is socially desirable. Unfortunately, the act of capturing the benefits of this service (timber harvesting) often has detrimental effects on ...
Armstrong, Glen W.   +2 more
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Forest Tenure and Sustainable Forest Management

open access: yesOpen Journal of Forestry, 2015
We reviewed the principles and key literature related to forest tenure and sustainable forest management, and then examined the status of sustainable forestry and land ownership at the aggregate national level for major forested countries. The institutional design principles suggested by Ostrom are well accepted for applications to public, communal ...
Jacek P. Siry   +3 more
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