Amidst Myanmar (Burma)'s political reform process the forest sector remains an important area awaiting democratisation … has however played a decisive role in determining forest sector policy and indeed has exerted a significant influence on …

Policies governing forest ecosystems can mitigate climate change in many ways, making use of various ecosystem services …-off analysis, we analyse the coherence of Finnish policies affecting forest bioenergy and carbon sequestration, two contrasting … demand of the services by utilizing natural science and policy assessment approaches. We find forest bioenergy, representing …

One argument against forest reservation is that people want forest reserve resources and would not deliberately destroy … it. In contrast, the basic assumption underlying forest reservation in Nigeria is that local communities cannot conserve … status of households have significant effects on the probability of households having a formal access to forest reserves …

How has forest reserves in Enugu State faired given the sustainability- threatening signals surrounding it? Using the … of these forest reserves. Among other problems, this study reveals that Enugu State looses, on the average, about 2 ….01 hectares of forest reserve trees per annum. This calls for a total overhaul and improvement in the conservation and management …

against forest and environment conservation even if initiatives such as creation of protected areas and indigenous territories … try to reconcile socio-economic development and forest protection. …

process of ageing, the mobility of the men and the spatial demographic changes, the renewal of the watery and forest resources …

The paper focuses on the choice of forest management strategies for natural hazards by nonindustrial owners, when … forest provides nontimber services. We introduce a basic two-period model where the private owner hedges against natural … hazards on his/her forest thanks to financial strategies (accumulation of savings) or to the adoption of sylvicultural …