“Forest Econics:” Mimicking Processes and Patterns in Old Growth Forest to Promote Sustainable Forestry Under Global Change
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ALABAMA’S REASURED T FORESTS A Publication of the Alabama Forestry Commission Spring/Summer 2019 Message from the GOVERNOR STATE FORESTER Kay Ivey ALABAMA FORESTRY COMMISSION n my letter for this magazine, I want to take a different Katrenia Kier, Chairman approach than I normally do. A little-known responsibili- Robert N. Turner, Vice Chair ty of the Alabama Forestry Commission is helping the Robert P. Sharp state in times of disaster. Sure, when a tornado, hurricane, Stephen W. May III Ior ice storm hits, we are on the scene with chainsaws and Jane T. Russell equipment to clear the roads, but we offer much more than Dr. Bill Sudduth Joseph Twardy that. Through our training to fight wildfires, we have an inci- dent management team ready at all times to serve the state. I STATE FORESTER want to take this opportunity to brag on the men and women Rick Oates who make up this team and agency. As everyone knows, on March 3rd a series of tornadoes Rick Oates, State Forester ASSISTANT STATE FORESTER devastated parts of Lee County. Twenty-three people were Bruce Springer killed, and the homes of many more were destroyed. It was total devastation in parts of the county. As is often the case, the Alabama Forestry Commission was FOREST MANAGEMENT DIVISION DIRECTOR called in to assist the citizens of Lee County. Through this effort, my eyes were Will Brantley opened to the true capabilities of the Alabama Forestry Commission. PROTECTION DIVISION DIRECTOR Our team, led by James “Moto” Williams, jumped into action and took over John Goff the coordination of volunteers; at first in Smiths Station, and later in Beauregard. -
Health Guidelines Vegetation Fire Events
HEALTH GUIDELINES FOR VEGETATION FIRE EVENTS Background papers Edited by Kee-Tai Goh Dietrich Schwela Johann G. Goldammer Orman Simpson © World Health Organization, 1999 CONTENTS Preface and acknowledgements Early warning systems for the prediction of an appropriate response to wildfires and related environmental hazards by J.G. Goldammer Smoke from wildland fires, by D E Ward Analytical methods for monitoring smokes and aerosols from forest fires: Review, summary and interpretation of use of data by health agencies in emergency response planning, by W B Grant The role of the atmosphere in fire occurrence and the dispersion of fire products, by M Garstang Forest fire emissions dispersion modelling for emergency response planning: determination of critical model inputs and processes, by N J Tapper and G D Hess Approaches to monitoring of air pollutants and evaluation of health impacts produced by biomass burning, by J P Pinto and L D Grant Health impacts of biomass air pollution, by M Brauer A review of factors affecting the human health impacts of air pollutants from forest fires, by J Malilay Guidance on methodology for assessment of forest fire induced health effects, by D M Mannino Gaseous and particulate emissions released to the atmosphere from vegetation fires, by J S Levine Basic fact-determining downwind exposures and their associated health effects, assessment of health effects in practice: a case study in the 1997 forest fires in Indonesia, by O Kunii Smoke episodes and assessment of health impacts related to haze from forest -
Ecological Economics and Sustainable Forest Management: Developing a Transdisciplinary Approach for the Carpathian Mountains
ECOLOGICAL ECONOMICS AND SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT: DEVELOPING A TRANSDISCIPLINARY APPROACH FOR THE CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS Edited by I.P. Soloviy and W.S. Keeton Ukrainian National Forestry University Press, Lviv © Ihor P. Soloviy and William S. Keeton © Ukrainian National Forestry University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical or photocopying, recording, or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher. Published by Ukrainian National Forestry University Press Gen. Chuprynky 103 Lviv 79057 Ukraine E-mail: [email protected] Ecological economics and sustainable forest management: developing a transdisciplinary approach for the Carpathian Mountains. Edited by I.P. Soloviy, W.S. Keeton. – Lviv : Ukrainian National Forestry University Press, Liga-Pres, 2009. − 432 p. – Statistics: fig. 28, tables 67 , bibliography 686 . The modern scientific conceptions and approaches of ecological economics and sustainable forestry are presented in the book. The attention is given especially to the possibility of the integration of these concepts towards solving the real ecological and economic problems of mountain territories and its sustainable development. The ways of sustainability of forest sector approaching have been proposed using the Ukrainian Carpathian Mountains as a case study. The book will be a useful source for scientists and experts in the field of forest and environmental policies, forest economics and management, as well as for the broad nature conservation publicity. Printed and bound in Ukraine by Omelchenko V. G. LTD Kozelnytska 4, Lviv, Ukraine, phone + 38 0322 98 0380 ISBN 978-966-397-109-0 ЕКОЛОГІЧНА ЕКОНОМІКА ТА МЕНЕДЖМЕНТ СТАЛОГО ЛІСОВОГО ГОСПОДАРСТВА: РОЗВИТОК ТРАНСДИСЦИПЛІНАРНОГО ПІДХОДУ ДО КАРПАТСЬКИХ ГІР За науковою редакцією І. -
How Community Restoration and Management of Forests Can Help Meet Climate Goals EU Forests of Hope
1 How community restoration and management of forests can help meet climate goals EU Forests of Hope March 2020 2 Contents From ‘Forests in danger’ to ‘Forests of hope’! 3 Estonia 5 Vormsi church forest: a century ago and today France 8 A fair trade from the tree to the beam Latvia 10 Family run forestry shows a diverse range of benefits in Latvia Portugal 12 From forest to desert and back again! Galicia, Spain 14 Still working toward our Atlantic forest dream Sweden 18 Taking forestry back to the future Ireland 21 Monoculture Sitka spruce plantations dominate Ireland’s forest landscapes. But a movement to transform them is growing Acknowledgments This publication was written by members of civil society, NGOs and researchers from EU MemberStates, and compiled and edited by Fern. Thank you to Martin Luiga and Estonian Forest Aid; Algor Streng; Reseau Alternatives Forestieres’ Anne Berthet and Collectif Bois 07; Janis Rozitis and Pasaules Dabas Fonds; João Paulo Fidalgo Carvalho, Pedro Januário, Maria Lino and members of Luzlinar; Manuel López Rodriguez and the Teis Community; Priya Devasirvatham, Sven Kallen, Rodger Abey Parris, Joachim Englert and members of LIFE MycoRestore; Eva-Lotta Hultén and Plockhugget; and Seán Ó Conláin. Cover photo by Projecto Bosques, Luzlinar organisation This report was originally released in June 2019, and republished in Marsh 2020 with additional examples of close-to-nature forestry projects from Ireland and Sweden. Fern office UK, 1C Fosseway Business Centre, Stratford Road, Moreton in Marsh, GL56 9NQ, UK Fern office Brussels, Rue d’Edimbourg, 26, 1050 Brussels, Belgium www.fern.org This briefing has been produced with the financial assistance of the European Climate Foundation, the David & Lucille Packard Foundation and the European Commission. -
An Alternative Explanation for the Failure of the UNCED Forest Negotiations •
DeborahAn Alternative S. Davenport Explanation for the Failure of the UNCED Forest Negotiations An Alternative Explanation for the Failure of the UNCED Forest Negotiations • Deborah S. Davenport* Downloaded from http://direct.mit.edu/glep/article-pdf/5/1/105/1819031/1526380053243549.pdf by guest on 30 September 2021 In 1990, the United States proposed the negotiation of a global convention to stop deforestation. Negotiations toward a global forest convention (GFC) began under the auspices of the United Nations during preparations for the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), but faltered as this issue became enmeshed in North-South politics. Ultimately, the US-led coali- tion achieved only a non-binding agreement at UNCED: the “Non-legally Bind- ing Authoritative Statement of Principles for a Global Consensus on the Man- agement, Conservation, and Sustainable Development of All Types of Forests” (the Forest Principles). A push to include language in that agreement on revisit- ing the issue of a global convention later was also repelled. Since then, calls have continued for negotiation of a binding global forest convention; to date, anti-convention forces have prevailed. In this paper I analyze the failure of global concern about forests to result in an effective, legally binding international agreement on action to protect them in 1992. I focus here on a legally binding commitment, as opposed to the more common focus on the concept of a “forest regime,” in order to bypass the ongoing controversy among scholars as to whether a global forest regime cur- rently exists in the absence of a legally binding agreement covering this issue area. -
Environmental Governance & the Forest Sector
Environmental Governance & the Forest Sector Global and regional Policy Processes, Institutions, Developments & the role of the UNECE/FAO Timber Section Franziska Hirsch UNECE/FAO Timber Section Freiburg Student Tour „Environmental Governance“, 15 February 2010 Environmental Governance Maria Ivanova and Jennifer Roy in „THE ARCHITECTURE OF GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE: PROS AND CONS OF MULTIPLICITY“ „In contrast to other global governance regimes such as health, trade and economic policy, the institutional architecture for the environment lacks clarity and coherence.“ No „leader organization“ to actively champion environmental issues ensuring their integration within economic and social policies International environmental responsibilities and activities spread across multiple organizations, including UNEP, numerous other UN agencies, WTO Independent secretariats and governing bodies of the numerous international environmental treaties Freiburg Student Tour „Environmental Governance“, 15 February 2010 Forest Sector Governance Is the same true for the governance of forests and forest-related matters? Institutional coherence or fragmentation? Up to you to judge! Freiburg Student Tour „Environmental Governance“, 15 February 2010 Forest Sector Governance - Global Rio 1992 World Summit on Sustainable Development - Outcome: • 27 principles of environment and development • Agenda 21 • United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD) • United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity • United Nations Framework Convention on -
BARKING up the WRONG TREE? FOREST SUSTAINABILITY in the WAKE of EMERGING BIOENERGY POLICIES Jody M. Endres*† Twenty Years Have
BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE? FOREST SUSTAINABILITY IN THE WAKE OF EMERGING BIOENERGY POLICIES Jody M. Endres∗† INTRODUCTION Twenty years have passed since the Fish and Wildlife Service’s controversial listing of the Northern Spotted Owl as an endangered species, triggering highly publicized debate surrounding government-sanctioned clear-cutting of forest habitats throughout the Northwestern United States.1 The spotted owl controversy revealed that federal forest management policies alone could not guarantee functioning forest ecosystems. At the same time as the owl’s listing, agreements made at the 1992 Rio Earth Summit highlighted the mounting pressures on natural systems, thus unofficially marking the advent of sustainable forestry management (SFM).2 While threats to forest ecosystems from traditional logging practices certainly remain,3 developed and developing countries have shifted generally toward more sustainable forest management, at least on paper, including codifying various sustainability indicators in public laws.4 Nevertheless, dark policy clouds are gathering on the forest management horizon. Scientific consensus has grown in recent years around a new and arguably more onerous threat to all of the world’s ecosystems—climate change. Governments’ responses have focused on bioenergy policies aimed at curtailing anthropogenic greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, and mandates for renewables in energy supplies now abound ∗ Assistant Professor of Energy, Environmental, and Natural Resources Law, the University of Illinois College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences. Funding for this work was provided by the Energy Biosciences Institute. † I am grateful for the research assistance of Carol Celestine, former Research Assistant at the Energy Biosciences Institute. 1. William Yardley, Plan Issued to Save Northern Spotted Owl, N.Y. -
Synergies and Trade-Offs Between Production, Land Expectation Value
Project no. 518128 EFORWOOD Tools for Sustainability Impact Assessment Instrument: IP Thematic Priority: 6.3 Global Change and Ecosystems Deliverable PD2.2.5 Report on time and scale integration of environmental impacts of forest management alternatives by use of generic modelling approach Due date of deliverable: Month 44 Actual submission date: Month 55 Start date of project: 011105 Duration: 4 years Organisation name of lead contractor for this deliverable: University of Copenhagen (KU), Denmark Final version Project co-funded by the European Commission within the Sixth Framework Programme (2002-2006) Dissemination Level PU Public PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission x RE Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission CO Services) 1 Deliverable PD 2.2.5 - Report on time and scale integration of environmental impacts of forest management alternatives by use of generic modelling approaches: a case study of synergies and trade-offs between production and ecological services. Philipp Duncker1, Karsten Raulund-Rasmussen2, Per Gundersen2, Johnny de Jong3 Klaus Katzensteiner4, Hans Peter Ravn2, Mike Smith5, Otto Eckmüllner4 1 Institute for Forest Growth, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg, Germany 2 Forest & Landscape Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 3 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala, Sweden 4 Department of Forest and Soil Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Applied Life Sciences (BOKU) Vienna, Austria ABSTRACT Forests provide multiple functions and services among which society traditionally tends to have a high interest in wood production. In consequence, forest management aims at increasing the timber volume produced and the economic return through intervening with natural processes. -
The Forest and the Trees: Sustainable Development and Human Rights in the Context of Cambodia
COMMENTS THE FOREST AND THE TREES: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE CONTEXT OF CAMBODIA ANDY WEINERt INTRODUCTION During the summer of 2001, I was an intern for the Land Unit of Legal Aid of Cambodia (LAC Land Unit), based in the capital of Cambodia, Phnom Penh. This Comment reflects thinking about the most significant case encountered by the LAC Land Unit over the course of that summer. The case involves a commitment of public forestland to a foreign investor for agro-industrial purposes. I meas- ure its significance not merely by the number of clients affected or the amount of land at stake (though both figures would justify the label), but also by the global ramifications of the issue involved. It strikes me as paradigmatic of the fundamental problems facing Cambodia as a developing nation struggling to emerge from an antiquated agrarian economy incapable of providing for its future. What is happening in Cambodia further reflects nations around the world wanting to secure a position in the global economy. With this recognition, the following discussion aims at broader application than merely the Cambodian context; it endeavors to address an important issue of global concern. B.A. 1993, Bowdoin College; J.D. Candidate 2003, University of Pennsylvania. I would like to thank the people of Legal Aid of Cambodia who made this Comment possible. Of particular note, my appreciation goes to Francis James for the opportu- nity to spend the summer in Cambodia, to Max Howlett and Heidi Lichteveld for their friendship and introduction to the Cambodian NGO community, and to the members of the Land Unit, Yim Simene, Seang Boravy, Meach Sam On, Eang Sopheak, Am Sokha, and George Cooper, who were supportive in more ways than I can recount. -
Statement of Forest Principles (PDF, 31 Kb, 13.02.2007)
A/CONF.151/26 (Vol. III) Forest Principles Seite 1 von 6 United Nations A/CONF.151/26 (Vol. General Assembly Distr. GENER 14 August 1 ORIGINAL: ENGL REPORT OF THE UNITED NATIONS CONFERENCE ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT (Rio de Janeiro, 3-14 June 1992) Annex III NON-LEGALLY BINDING AUTHORITATIVE STATEMENT OF PRINCIPLES FOR A GLOBAL CONSENSUS ON THE MANAGEMENT, CONSERVATION AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT OF ALL TYPES OF FORESTS PREAMBLE (a) The subject of forests is related to the entire range of environmental and development issues and opportunities, including the right to socio-economic development on a sustainable basis. (b) The guiding objective of these principles is to contribute to the management, conservation and sustainable development of forests and to provide for their multiple and complementary functions and uses. (c) Forestry issues and opportunities should be examined in a holistic and balanced manner within the overall context of environment and development, taking into consideration the multiple functions and uses of forests, including traditional uses, and the likely economic and social stress when these uses are constrained or restricted, as well as the potential for development that sustainable forest management can offer. (d) These principles reflect a first global consensus on forests. In committing themselves to the prompt implementation of these principles, countries also decide to keep them under assessment for their adequacy with regard to further international cooperation on forest issues. (e) These principles should apply to all types of forests, both natural and planted, in all geographical regions and climatic zones, including austral, boreal, subtemperate, temperate, subtropical and tropical. -
Forest Systems Managing Forests.Pdf
Forest Systems 26(1), eR01, 15 pages (2017) eISSN: 2171-9845 https://doi.org/10.5424/fs/2017261-09443 Instituto Nacional de Investigación y Tecnología Agraria y Alimentaria (INIA) REVIEW ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS Managing forests in a changing world: the need for a systemic approach. A review Susanna Nocentini1*, Gérard Buttoud2, Orazio Ciancio3 and Piermaria Corona4 1University of Florence, Department of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Systems, Florence, Italy 2University of Tuscia, Department of In- novation in Biological, Agro-food and Forest Systems, via San Camillo de Lellis, 01100 Viterbo, Italy 3Italian Academy of Forest Sciences, Piazza Edison 11, 50133 Florence, Italy 4Consiglio per la ricerca in agricoltura e l’analisi dell’economia agraria. Research Centre for Forestry and Wood, viale Santa Margherita 80, 52100 Arezzo, Italy Abstract Aim of study: The paper is a scientific commented discussion with the aim of defining a framework which allows both a comprehensive vision of forest dynamics, as well as an adaptive management approach and policy procedures more suited to a changing and inherently unpredictable world. Main results: We identify the main challenges facing forestry in relation to recent developments in forestry thinking, i.e. the paradox of aiming at sustainability in a changing environment, a shifting perception of the relationship between ecological and social systems, the recognition of forest ecosystems as complex adaptive systems, the need for integrating the social and ecological dimensions of forestry into a single framework, and the growing awareness of the importance of the ethical approach to the forest. We propose the concept of “systemic forestry” as a paradigm for better understanding forest dynamics and for guiding management and public actions at various levels. -
Forest and Conservation Nursery Associations-2007
United States Department of Agriculture National Proceedings: Forest Service Forest and Conservation Rocky Mountain Research Station Proceedings Nursery Associations—2007 RMRS-P-57 December 2008 Dumroese, R. K.; Riley, L. E., tech. coords. 2008. National Proceedings: Forest and Conservation Nursery Associations—2007. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. Proc. RMRS-P-57. 174 p. Abstract These proceedings are a compilation of the papers that were presented at the regional meetings of the forest and conservation nursery associations in the United States and Canada in 2007. The Northeastern Forest and Conservation Nursery Association meeting was held July 16 to 19 at the Grappone Conference Center in Concord, NH. The meeting was hosted by the New Hampshire State Forest Nursery. Subject matter for the technical sessions included seed collection, handling, and storage, soil management, seedling nutrition, disease management, and fumigation alternatives. Field trips included an afternoon tour of the New Hampshire State Forest Nursery in Boscawen, NH, and a full day tour of the White Mountain National Forest, including timber management and wilderness projects across the Kancamagus Highway, and Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest. The combined meeting of the Forest Nursery Association of British Columbia and the Western Forest and Conservation Nursery Association was held at the Mary Winspear Centre in Sidney, BC, on September 17 to 19. The meeting was hosted by the Forest Nursery Association of Brit- ish Columbia. Subject matter for the technical sessions included global climate change, business practices and marketing, forest nursery practices, nursery technology, disease management, and labor management.