"Integration of biodiversity conservation into economic utilization of natural resources has become a central response to the challenges of sustainable development. However, the resources and competencies required to implement such an integrated strategy at the level of the individual, the...

From Introduction: "Agreements between forest companies and forest communities may offer potential solutions to one or more of the conflicting objectives the global forest sector has been required to face. Some studies (Mayers and Vermeulen, 2002; Scherr, White, and Kaimowitz, 2003) have identified...

"Structural Funds are available as non-reimbursable grants, on the basis of co-financing ('part-financing') with the relevant Member States. The level of co-financing depends on the objective of the programme, and is up to a maximum of between 50 and 85%. There are five sets of priority...

"The sustainable management of the commons is now being highly discussed with the recognition of the role played by the commons for social welfare and realizing the necessity of maintaining the stock of common resources for well being of the future generations. However, just like for other...

Land-clearing fires set by settlers in the Brazilian Amazon give rise to large scale wildfires that threaten mature forests, agricultural plantations, and settlement areas. Our purpose is to examine labor devoted to fire prevention (firebreak establishment) and burning for crop production for...

New Zealand experienced dramatic restructuring programsafter the Labor party won the national elections in 1984.Deregulation of price controls, removal of the log exportban, and privatization of public assets were the mainshocks to the forest sector. The purpose of this paper isto analyze the...

Physiological process models, productivity studies, andwildlife abundance studies all require accuraterepresentations of tree crowns. In the past, geometricshapes or flexible mathematical equations approximatinggeometric shapes were used to represent crown profiles.Crown profile of loblolly pine...

Documentation of Productivity and Efficiency Relationships for a Group of Southern Logging Contractors Michael J. Walter William B. Stuart, Chair (ABSTRACT) A case study examined contractor demographics, business characteristics, costs and production information from twenty-three tree-length...