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Humphreys, David. "Life Protective or Carcinogenic Challenge? Global Forests Governance under Advanced Capitalism." Global Environmental Politics 3, no. 2 (May 1, 2003): 40–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/152638003322068209.

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John McMurtry and David Korten argue that by systemically depleting its social and environmental hosts, global capitalism has reached a carcinogenic stage. While there are life-protective forces in global governance, many are rendered ineffective by the routine functioning of global capitalism. The article applies this analysis to forests at two levels: the global forests regime (that is, public international law that seeks to govern forest use); and the broader structures and processes of global governance that affect forest use. The set of interactions between the two constitutes global forest governance. It is argued that in global forest governance carcinogenic life degrading forces prevail over healthy life conservation forces. The result is worldwide forest degradation. In this respect global forest governance represents a pathogenic invasion of the world's forests.
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Glushko, Sergei Gennadievich, and Nina Borisovna Prokhorenko. "Bioindication experience in forests in Tatarstan nowadays." Samara Journal of Science 7, no. 3 (August 15, 2018): 31–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/snv201873106.

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Anthropogenic impact led to the destruction of forests and the destruction of a significant part of them in different regions. The process of destruction over a large area causes the new natural conditions forming. Thus, it is important to find the new methods to assess forests and forest conditions. The use of data regarding dominant, edifying, differential plant species allows assessing forest growing conditions at certain stages of community development. The results of such studies can be used for the purposes of short-term forest planning. The new research materials on the life strategy of forest plants and forest communities in general are important to do a long-term forecast of the dynamics of forest-growing conditions. Complex characteristics of plant behavior or their life strategy reflects the process of adaptation of vegetation to the emerging forest-growing conditions. The authors analyze the possibility of determining the natural conditions by the features of the life strategy of individual forest-forming species (on the example of forests of the Republic of Tatarstan). The type of the vital strategy of tree species was revealed by the indicators of the course or energy of growth, as well as life expectancy. Critically important question concern researching the main forest forming breeds in Tatarstan, which adapt to the emerging conditions, and show signs of pioneering behavior or operational strategy.
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Gladkova, G. A., and L. A. Sibirina. "YURI IVANOVICH MANKO – A LIFE DEDICATED TO THE FOREST." V.L. Komarov Memorial Lectures 70 (November 28, 2022): 102–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.25221/kl.70.5.

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An article about the famous Far Eastern forester, Doctor of Biological Sciences, Professor, Honored Forester of Russia Yuri Ivanovich Manko (25.11.1931 – 19.02.2021). After graduating from the Siberian Forestry Institute in 1954, he was assigned to the Far Eastern branch of the SB Academy of Sciences of the USSR named after V.L. Komarov and taken to the Department of Botany and Plant Science in the Laboratory of Forestry, which was organized and headed by Professor Boris Pavlovich Kolesnikov. In 1966, already as part of the Biology and Soil Sience Institute, established in 1962, the laboratory was reorganized into a non-structural forest Department. In 1962, Yu.I. Manko defended his Candidate thesis «Natural regeneration of fir-spruce forests of the northern half of Sikhote-Alin and some issues of their structure and development», in 1985 – his doctoral dissertation «Ayan spruce (distribution, biology, classification of forest types, features of age structure and dynamics of phytocenoses». The scientific heritage of Yuri Ivanovich exceeds 330 publications on forestry, botany, soil science, botanical geography, history of science, nature conservation issues. Yuri Ivanovich Manko throughout his scientific activity developed and promoted the «genetic» or «geographical-genetic» direction of forest typology closely related to the forest formation process, which was developed on the basis of the scientific heritage of B.A. Ivashkevich-B.P. Kolesnikov. He supplemented the theory of the forest formation process by characterizing the zonal features of this process in the area of the Ayan spruce with autogenous vegetation development and exogenous destructive effects. They were shown that the spectrum of particular forest-forming processes is specific for various sub-formations and geographical facies, and their dynamics depends on geomorphological conditions and the speed of modern reliefforming processes. The name of Yuri Ivanovich Manko is inscribed in the history of Far Eastern science as an outstanding researcher of forests.
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Jung, Dae-Hyun. "Forest Schoolers’ Adaptation to Forest Life : A Longitudinal Study." Korea Journal of Child Care and Education 114 (January 31, 2019): 93–128. http://dx.doi.org/10.37918/kce.2019.01.114.93.

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Hubbe, Martin. "Life in the Forest Canopy." BioResources 8, no. 2 (January 31, 2013): 1508–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.15376/biores.8.2.1508-1509.

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Scientists have been devoting increased time and attention to the tops of trees. As made clear by results of their studies, the environment of the forest canopy is teeming with life. Perhaps because the crowns of trees are difficult for people to reach, and due to the micro-climates within them, they hold a rich and diverse collection of life forms. Advances in the use of ropes, ladders, and suspended walkways is now making it possible for humans to be more frequent visitors to these realms.
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Kohn, Eduardo. "Forest Forms and Ethical Life." Environmental Humanities 14, no. 2 (July 1, 2022): 401–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/22011919-9712478.

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Abstract What kind of guidance can the world Eduardo Kohn calls “forest” provide for living well on Earth in times of planetary anthropogenic ecological fragmentation? How, that is, can humans learn to ecologize their ethics? Reflecting on his ongoing ethnographic research in and around Indigenous communities of Ecuador’s Upper Amazon, Kohn uses what he learned to help find a path that can orient humans in their attempts to live well in relation to the many kinds of others that make and hold them. Ecologizing ethics, this article argues, turns on understanding the living world as a “thinking forest,” one that is mind manifesting or psychedelic in nature and as such requires a mode of attention that is itself psychedelic. Ethical guidance comes from finding ways to appreciate the “shape” of the larger mind of which people are a part, and in this way, to find direction from that form as it becomes manifest to them. This article discusses, thus, the ways in which an ecologized ethics is linked to the aesthetic ground from which it emerges.
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Hussain, Norhuzailin, and Faziawati Abdul Aziz. "Enhancing Quality of Life: Restorative Experience in Recreational Forests in Selangor, Malaysia." Environment-Behaviour Proceedings Journal 1, no. 2 (July 1, 2016): 89. http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/e-bpj.v1i2.280.

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Two recreational forests were selected as case studies: The Ampang and Kanching Recreational Forests. The recreational forests are facing pressure by surrounding developments such as highway and housing. Urban development has implications for the benefits offered by recreational forests, endangered biodiversity, water quality and wildlife to result a place that is no longer enjoyable to visit. It is important to conserve the recreational forests that can contribute to the urbanites quality of life. Based on the results from the site observations, self-administered questionnaires and in-depth interviews, this paper describes recreational forest users’ experience in the recreational forests and what makes they perceived restored while being in the forest. This study helps the recreational forest management and related organizations in conserving, planning and managing recreational forests in providing a positive experience for users that can enhance Malaysian quality of life.© 2016. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia.Keywords: Health; nature; woman; recreation
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Gregersen, H., P. A. Dewees, H. El-Lakany, B. Singer, and J. Blaser. "Global forest governance and sustainable development: reflections on the life and times of John Spears." International Forestry Review 22, no. 1 (June 1, 2020): 142–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1505/146554820829523934.

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The late John Spears' international career coincided with the emergence of global forest governance. His contributions at the World Bank, the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) and at the World Commission on Forests and Sustainable Development (WCFSD) are characterized by an unfailing call to integrate objectives towards forests and trees into broader development goals and particularly to tap the power of forests and trees to contribute to poverty alleviation.<br/> This paper describes the evolution of global forest governance since the early 1970s, especially focusing on the period when Spears was highly influential in the global forest policy debate. It gives an emphasis to the efforts the international community has made in adopting a more comprehensive perspective toward the role of forests in sustainable development. Despite this, global forest governance has recently tended to focus more narrowly on climate change at the expense of attention to the problem of poverty. While climate change is a major priority in its own right, we argue that this limited perspective needs to be overcome to unlock the full potential of forests in sustainable development, aimed at combating poverty.
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Montecchiari, Silvia, Giulio Tesei, and Marina Allegrezza. "Ailanthus altissima Forests Determine a Shift in Herbaceous Layer Richness: A Paired Comparison with Hardwood Native Forests in Sub-Mediterranean Europe." Plants 9, no. 10 (October 21, 2020): 1404. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/plants9101404.

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Ailanthus altissima is an invasive alien species (IAS) present throughout Europe and included in the list of alien species of Union concern. In sub-Mediterranean areas of central Italy, there is a lack of knowledge about this invasive species and its interactions with the native forest ecosystems. We aim to find what are the main differences in vegetation structure and floristic diversity between A. altissima forests and native forests through the assessment of the principal ecological parameters that differ between the forest types. We performed 38 phytosociological relevés and sampling of ecological parameters in A. altissima forest communities and neighboring native forests. We analyzed how species richness, diversity, life forms, life strategies, structural characteristics, and ecological parameters changed in A. altissima forests compared with native ones. We found that in A. altissima forests, there is a shift in herbaceous layer richness, with a higher presence of annual ruderal herbs and the absence of herbaceous species linked to the forest environment. The ecological parameters that diverge from the native forests were total nitrogen, total carbon, and C/N ratio. A. altissima forest communities could threaten the biodiversity of the native forest ecosystems in the sub-Mediterranean landscape, favoring ruderal species and inhibiting the presence of typical forest species.
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Sahoo, Kamalakanta, Richard Bergman, Sevda Alanya-Rosenbaum, Hongmei Gu, and Shaobo Liang. "Life Cycle Assessment of Forest-Based Products: A Review." Sustainability 11, no. 17 (August 29, 2019): 4722. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11174722.

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Climate change, environmental degradation, and limited resources are motivations for sustainable forest management. Forests, the most abundant renewable resource on earth, used to make a wide variety of forest-based products for human consumption. To provide a scientific measure of a product’s sustainability and environmental performance, the life cycle assessment (LCA) method is used. This article provides a comprehensive review of environmental performances of forest-based products including traditional building products, emerging (mass-timber) building products and nanomaterials using attributional LCA. Across the supply chain, the product manufacturing life-cycle stage tends to have the largest environmental impacts. However, forest management activities and logistics tend to have the greatest economic impact. In addition, environmental trade-offs exist when regulating emissions as indicated by the latest traditional wood building product LCAs. Interpretation of these LCA results can guide new product development using biomaterials, future (mass) building systems and policy-making on mitigating climate change. Key challenges include handling of uncertainties in the supply chain and complex interactions of environment, material conversion, resource use for product production and quantifying the emissions released.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Forest life"

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Hathaway, John Lusk. "wild|life: A Forest for the People." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2012. https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/1430.

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The photographer discusses the work in wild | life: a forest for the people, his Master of Fine Art exhibition held at the Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, Tennessee from March 12 through March 23, 2012. The exhibition consists of 24 large-scale color archival Inkjet prints representing a large body of work that examines the human experience through viewing public and private land and land use within or tangential to the Cherokee National Forest. A complete catalogue of the wild ife exhibit is included at the end of the thesis. Historical and contemporary influences are discussed in regard to how they pertain formally and conceptually to Hathaway’s work. Included are photographs from Carleton Watkins, the Archives of Appalachia, Joel Sternfeld, and Jeff Whetstone as well as literary and critical influences from poets Albert Camus and John Szarkowski.
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Näslund, Eriksson Lisa. "Forest-Fuel Systems : Comparative Analyses in a Life Cycle Perspective." Doctoral thesis, Mittuniversitetet, Institutionen för teknik och hållbar utveckling, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:miun:diva-206.

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Forest fuels can be recovered, stored and handled in several ways and these different ways have different implications for CO2 emissions. In this thesis, comparative analyses were made on different forest-fuel systems. The analyses focused on the recovery and transport systems. Costs, primary energy use, CO2 emissions, storage losses and work environment associated with the use of forest fuel for energy were examined by using systems analysis methodology in a life cycle perspective. The bundle system showed less dry-matter losses and lower costs than the chip system. The difference was mainly due to more efficient forwarding, hauling and large-scale chipping. The potential of allergic reactions by workers did not differ significantly between the systems. In difficult terrain types, the loose material and roadside bundling systems become as economical as the clearcut bundle system. The stump and small roundwood systems showed the greatest increase in costs when the availability of forest fuel decreased. Stumps required the greatest increase in primary energy use. Forest fuels are a limited resource. A key factor is the amount of biomass recovered per hectare. Combined recovery of logging residues, stumps and small roundwood from thinnings from the same forest area give a high potential of reduced net CO2 emissions per hectare of forest land. Compensation fertilization becomes more cost-effective and the primary energy use for ash spreading becomes low – about 0,25‰. The total amount of available forest fuel in Sweden is 66 TWh per year. This would cost 1 billion €2007 to recover and would avoid 6.9 Mtonne carbon if fossil coal were replaced. In southern Sweden almost all forest fuel is obtainable in high-concentration areas where it is easy to recover. When determining potential CO2 emissions avoidance, the transportation distance was found to be less important than the other factors considered in this work. The type of transportation system did not have a significant influence over the CO2 avoided per hectare of forest land. The most important factor analysed here was the type of fossil fuel (coal, oil or natural gas) replaced together with the net amount of biomass recovered per hectare of forest land. Large-scale, long-distance transportation of biofuels from central Sweden has the potential to be cost-effective and also attractive in terms of CO2 emissions. A bundle recovery system meant that more biomass per hectare could be delivered to end-users than a pellet system due to conversion losses when producing pellets.
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Vaidya, Anand Prabhakar. "The Origin of the Forest, Private Property, and the State: The Political Life of India's Forest Rights Act." Thesis, Harvard University, 2014. http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:11654.

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This dissertation tracks the creation and implementation of India's 2006 Forest Rights Act or FRA, a landmark law that for the first time grants land rights to the millions who live without them in the country's forests. I follow the law in relation to the forest rights movement that has been central in lobbying for, drafting, and implementing it in order to examine both how the movement has shaped the law's meaning as well as how contests and alliances over the law's text and meaning have transformed the many movements citing and using the law. Drawing on ethnographic and archival research, I track the law from contests over its drafting in New Delhi to contests over its meaning in Ramnagar, a North Indian village. Ramnagar was settled by landless forest dwellers organized by forest rights activists, and its continued but still precarious existence is premised on a claim to land through the Act. I show that the meaning of the FRA was contested at every stage through collective action oriented around what Bakhtin (1982) terms `chronotopes,' the joint depiction of time, place, and characters in language. By diagnosing contemporary injustice through a depiction of the past and pointing to a just future to be brought about through the action of a collective, political movements and identifications form around and act through chronotopes. The movements enacting the Forest Rights Act have critically seized upon what one bureaucrat involved in its drafting called its `word traps,' words or phrases in the text with apparently uncontroversial literal meanings that in fact allow the law to be read through the political chronotopes of political parties or movements. By attending to the relationship between the legal text, its chronotopic deployment, and collective action, my project provides new ways to understand laws in political practice and language in political practice.
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Schulze, Mark D. "Ecology and behavior of nine timber tree species in Pará, Brazil : links between species life history and forest management and conservation /." View online version of this title, 2003. http://etda.libraries.psu.edu/theses/approved/WorldWideIndex/ETD-436/index.html.

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Volicer, Nadine (Nadine M. ). "Life in the woods : production and consumption of the urban forest." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70101.

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Thesis (M. Arch.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Architecture, 2012.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
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The use of wood is fraught with paradox. Wood as a building material is embraced for its naturalness, while the cutting of trees is indicted as a destruction of nature. Wood is lauded for its structural properties and visual appearance, but challenged for its lack of durability and dimensional stability; all traits tied to the original tree. The controversial field of transgenics further complicates matters as scientists now work to genetically modify trees for improved yield and performance. Many environmentalists argue that the risk of infecting native tree populations is too great, while others see potential for sparing native populations by using purpose-grown alternatives. Both camps claim to be working to halt global climate change. How can we locate today's wood industry within this disparity? Dilemmas inherent to wood use are entangled with conflicting attitudes towards nature. The urban forest is uniquely poised to address this debate through an opportunity to intersect nature and industry within the public realm. Phasing phytoremediation, timber and biomass production over time, the strategy of this thesis is to co-opt a network of underutilized and contaminated parcels in Boston's developing Innovation District as a system of productive landscapes. Transgenic trees are here considered as a means of stretching a given species' function and yield, and offer new opportunities for design. Initial years of tree growth provide plots that double as public green space while improved parcels are open for future development. On one such plot, the project envisions a wooden architecture that accounts for its own material, energy, and even the soil upon which it is built. By integrating systems of production and consumption into the public life of the city, the relationship between people and natural resources can be reestablished; the paradox made public
by Nadine Volicer.
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Szedlmayer, Stephen T. "Early life history of weakfish Cynoscion regalis (Bloch and Schneider)." W&M ScholarWorks, 1988. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539791567.

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Juvenile weakfish Cynoscion regalis, life history was studied in the York River estuary, Virginia. to verify daily aging methods of juvenile fish, both male and female adults were induced to spawn by injection of 200 IU Human chorionic gonadotropin/Kg wet weight. Subsequent larval and juvenile fish were reared up to 275 days with wild plankton and a daily rotating diet of squid, liver, Anchoa mitchilli, and Menidia menidia. Otoliths and scales were examined for daily microincrements patterns. Otolith ring counts were highly variable (31% varied by &>& 15% among 3 counts). Two problems were evident: (1) Microincrements frequently split to form two increments; and (2) Otoliths from a size series of fish (6.12-13.1 mm) indicated that weakfish otoliths grew by bud formation rather than concentric deposition. Scale circuli showed little variation between counts (99.5% of 2 counts from an individual scale were the same). Daily scale deposition was suggested by rearing up to 100 days, after which ring deposition was less than daily, however further research is needed because only one fish was reared past 25 days. The advantages of scale circuli counting over otolith increment counting were increased precision and ease of preparation. Field samples were collected weekly from the York River channel, at night using a 4.9 m, 1.5 mm cod end, trawl, during the weakfish nursery period (Aug-Oct 1983). The new technique of daily aging by scales, was applied to 845 of 922 weakfish collected. Counts ranged from 3 to 100 circuli/scale. Three cohorts were defined from the 1983 0-age fish. Growth rates estimated from scales (0.76-1.13 mm/d) were similar to those from length frequencies (1.0-1.2 mm/d). Analysis of covariance showed a significant difference (0.05 level) in growth rates among cohorts and among stations, but third order interactions (station, cohort, growth rate) were not detected. Mortality/migration rates estimated from decline in mean catch were significantly different between cohorts 1 and 2 (0.05 level, t-test). Weakfish were first abundant as new recruits at the river mouth, and moved upriver as they grew. In the fall a reverse migration occurred. Birthdate frequency by station and date indicated that different cohorts used different areas of the York River.
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Dahl, Fredrik Willebrand Tomas. "Life and death of the mountain hare in the boreal forest of Sweden /." Umeå : Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2005. http://diss-epsilon.slu.se/archive/00000829/.

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Thesis (doctoral)--Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2005.
Appendix includes reproductions of five papers and manuscripts, two co-authored with Tomas Willebrand. Includes bibliographical references. Also issued electronically via World Wide Web in PDF format; online version lacks appendix of papers.
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Dahl, Fredrik. "Life and death of the mountain hare in the boreal forest of Sweden /." Umeå : Dept. of Animal Ecology, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2005. http://epsilon.slu.se/200548.pdf.

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Lusk, Laura. "Forest Change and Balsam Woolly Adelgig Infestation in High Elevation Forests of Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2009. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/1.

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The Black Mountain range of western North Carolina supports some of the most extensive, but threatened high elevation forests in the southern Appalachians. Of particular note, the insect pathogen, balsam woolly adelgid (Adelges piceae Ratzeburg) has been present on Mt. Mitchell for over fifty years. In anticipation of potential changes in forest composition, vegetation surveys were first conducted in 1966 on nine one-acre plots near the summit of Mt. Mitchell. These plots were re-surveyed in 1978, 1985 and 2002. The purpose of this study was to re-census those plots and use those data to analyze long-term trends in forest composition for fir, spruce-fir, and spruce-fir-hardwood forest types. Since the 1960s and 1970s, all three forest types have experienced a transition away from an understory with a preponderance of Fraser fir (Abies fraseri (Pursh) Poir.) seedlings and saplings, to forests with higher densities of canopy and sub-canopy fir. Canopy red spruce (Picea rubens Sarg.) has similarly increased in density in the fir and spruce-fir types but declined in the spruce-fir-hardwood forest type. In all types, there has been a sharp decline in hardwood seedlings/saplings since a hardwood seedling explosion in 1978. The current analyses indicate that fir and spruce-fir forests have regenerated since the most severe die-offs and that each forest type will experience future impacts from balsam woolly adelgid but these will occur in a non-synchronous pattern.
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Shrestha, Prativa. "CARBON LIFE-CYCLE AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF FOREST CARBON SEQUESTRATION AND WOODY BIOENERGY PRODUCTION." UKnowledge, 2013. http://uknowledge.uky.edu/forestry_etds/14.

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Sequestering carbon in standing biomass, using woody bioenergy, and using woody products are the three potential ways to utilize forests in reducing greenhouse gases (GHGs) and mitigating climate change. These forestry related strategies are, however, greatly influenced by the existing markets and market based policies. This study focuses on the first two forest strategies. It investigates the combined impact of carbon and woody bioenergy markets on two different types of forests in the US – oak dominated mixed hardwood forests in the Central Hardwood Forests Region and loblolly pine forests in the southeastern US. A modification of the Harman model was used for the economic analysis of carbon sequestration and harvesting woody biomass for bioenergy. A forest carbon life-cycle assessment was used to determine the carbon emissions associated with management of forests and harvesting of wood products. Results from this study indicate that carbon payments and woody bioenergy production increase the land expectation value (LEV) for both forest types.
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Books on the topic "Forest life"

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Barbara, Taylor. Forest life. New York: DK Pub., 1998.

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Barbara, Taylor. Forest life. London: Dorling Kindersley, 1993.

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Hooper, Rosanne. Life in the woodlands. Chicago, IL: World Book in association with Two-Can, 1998.

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Hooper, Rosanne. Life in the woodlands. London: Two-CanPub., 1993.

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Miller, Kenton. Trees of Life: Saving Tropical Forest and their Biological Wealth. Boston: Beacon Press, 1991.

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Forest explorer: A life-size field guide. New York: Scholastic Press, 2004.

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Rain forest life. Mankato, Minn: Capstone Press, 2012.

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The temperate forest: A web of life. Berkeley Heights, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 2004.

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Miller, Kenton. Trees of life: Saving tropical forests and their biological wealth. Boston: Beacon Press, 1991.

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Kite, Lorien. Life in a rain forest. New York: Gareth Stevens Pub., 2010.

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Book chapters on the topic "Forest life"

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Jacobs, Marius. "Other Life Forms." In The Tropical Rain Forest, 66–76. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72793-1_6.

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Makai, Péter Kristóf. "The Forest of Life." In Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices, 97–119. Earth, Milky Way: punctum books, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.53288/0338.1.07.

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Vainio, Annukka, and Riikka Paloniemi. "Forest Owners’ Satisfaction with Forest Policy." In Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research, 2330–35. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_4113.

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Vainio, Annukka, and Riikka Paloniemi. "Forest Owners’ Satisfaction with Forest Policy." In Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research, 1–7. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69909-7_4113-2.

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Kilpeläinen, Antti. "Life Cycle Carbon Assessment of Bioenergy Production." In Forest BioEnergy Production, 171–83. New York, NY: Springer New York, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8391-5_10.

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Gheith, Jehanne M., and Katherine R. Jolluck. "A Life in the Forest." In Gulag Voices, 17–28. New York: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9780230116283_2.

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Linares-Palomino, Reynaldo, Victor Cardona, Ernest I. Hennig, Isabell Hensen, Doreen Hoffmann, Jasmin Lendzion, Daniel Soto, Sebastian K. Herzog, and Michael Kessler. "Non-woody life-form contribution to vascular plant species richness in a tropical American forest." In Forest Ecology, 87–99. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2795-5_8.

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Hashimoto, Shoji, Masabumi Komatsu, and Satoru Miura. "Impacts of Radioactive Contamination of Forest on Life." In Forest Radioecology in Fukushima, 75–126. Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9404-2_6.

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Tobias, Michael Charles. "Life and Death in the Forest." In Codex Orféo, 207–9. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30622-3_68.

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White, David A. "The Sound of a Tree Falling in the Forest." In The Examined Life, 53–61. New York: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003238782-8.

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Conference papers on the topic "Forest life"

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Hopper, Warren. "Mill experience estimating vacuum interrupter service life using MAC testing - phase II." In 2016 IEEE Pulp, Paper & Forest Industries Conference (PPFIC). IEEE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ppic.2016.7523462.

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Yin, Chenfei, and Yu Yang. "The Prediction of Fatigue Life Basing Random Forest Algorithm." In ASME 2021 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2021-72591.

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Abstract The fatigue performance of test pieces is sensitive to various influence factors. If one factor changes, the fatigue life will differ greatly. For the changes of each factors, the fatigue test must be carried on, which will increase the test cost. In this paper, in order to solve this problem, basing the machine learning method, we establish the random forest regression model to conduct a material fatigue fracture life prediction research for the 7050-T7451 aluminum alloy. For the 7050-T7451 aluminum alloy standard smooth test pieces considering six detailed factors, the fatigue test is carried out at two stress levels to obtain the fatigue fracture life. Firstly, the fatigue test data are pretreated in this paper. And the fatigue test conditions of each group are different from each other, so there are six attributes of the test conditions, including load, processing technology, roughness, material direction, thickness of the parent metal and raw material position. The test data from sets 2 to 10 are selected and randomly divided into training set and verification set with a ratio of 4:1, and the first set data was reserved as the test set. Secondly, the random forest regression model is established. And then the random forest model is trained. The model is evaluated according to the R2 determination coefficient, and the R2 determination coefficient is 0.49 after adjusting the hyperparameters of the random forest model on the verification set. It is found that the true values of the tests are all within the fatigue dispersion band four times of the predicted values. Considering the fatigue dispersibility, it is a reasonable learning model. Finally, the model is verified by the first set of test data, and the accuracy of the predicted value of the first test set is 87.7% relative to the test mean value, which the predicted result is good. Processing technology, roughness, material direction, thickness of the parent metal and raw material position can form 162 experiment combinations according to these five discrete attributes. This paper involves 10 kinds of test combinations including all kinds of attribute information. For the 152 test combinations that don’t occur, a satisfying life prediction value can be obtained using random forest model by directly importing the experimental properties without conducting experiments in the future. The fatigue fracture life prediction basing on random forest regression algorithm provides a new idea for data mining to solve traditional problems.
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Zhang, Bailing, Tuan D. Pham, Xiaobo Zhou, Hiroshi Tanaka, Mayumi Oyama-Higa, Xiaoyi Jiang, Changming Sun, Jeanne Kowalski, and Xiuping Jia. "Phenotype Recognition for RNAi Screening by Random Projection Forest." In 2011 INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON COMPUTATIONAL MODELS FOR LIFE SCIENCES (CMLS-11). AIP, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.3596627.

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Chen, Xin, Ge Jin, Siqi Qiu, Minglei Lu, and Danjiong Yu. "Direct Remaining Useful Life Estimation Based on Random Forest Regression." In 2020 Global Reliability and Prognostics and Health Management (PHM-Shanghai). IEEE, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/phm-shanghai49105.2020.9281004.

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Krupnova, Tatiana. "COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DIFFERENT DRINKING WATER TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES USING LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT METHOD." In 14th SGEM GeoConference on WATER RESOURCES. FOREST, MARINE AND OCEAN ECOSYSTEMS. Stef92 Technology, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.5593/sgem2014/b31/s12.017.

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Schneckenburger, Herbert, and Werner Schmidt. "Time-resolved chlorophyll fluorescence for early detection of forest decline." In Laser Spectroscopy of Biomolecules: 4th International Conference on Laser Applications in Life Sciences, edited by Jouko E. Korppi-Tommola. SPIE, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.146171.

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Mulyana, Budi, Djoko Soeprijadi, Rohman Rohman, Ris Hadi Purwanto, and Rina Reorita. "A simulation study on forest inventory of gliricidia plantation using a virtual tree map." In INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LIFE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY (ICoLiST 2020). AIP Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0052673.

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Cailian, LI, and ZHANG chun. "Life prediction of battery based on random forest optimized by genetic algorithm." In 2020 IEEE International Conference on Prognostics and Health Management (ICPHM). IEEE, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icphm49022.2020.9187060.

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Fransiska, Herlin, Dyah Setyo Rini, and Lidia Monica Anwar. "Application of random forest and geographically weighted regression in Sumatra life expectancy." In INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON STATISTICS AND DATA SCIENCE 2021. AIP Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0108844.

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Burrows, Clifford R., Geoffrey P. Hammond, and Marcelle C. McManus. "Life-Cycle Assessment of Oil ‘Hydraulic’ Systems for Environmentally-Sensitive Applications." In ASME 1998 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece1998-0472.

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Abstract Life-cycle assessment (LCA) techniques have been used in order to evaluate the environmental impact of conventional oil ‘hydraulic’ systems in an ecologically-sensitive application; that of mobile forestry machinery typical of modem European design. A single-grip ‘harvester’ employed for logging and a ‘forwarder’ that subsequently transports the felled and cut-to-length timber out of the forest are analysed. The results of this indicative LCA provide insights into the relative magnitude of the complex range of environmental impacts arising from fluid power systems and their parent vehicles in the forestry context. It also suggests areas for future research, principally on the impact of diesel fuel and hydraulic oil (including their additives) on the forest ecosystem, on the balance between local, regional and global environmental effects, and on the developing methods of LCA itself.
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Reports on the topic "Forest life"

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Patton, David R., Richard W. Hofstetter, John D. Bailey, and Mary Ann Benoit. Species richness and variety of life in Arizona’s ponderosa pine forest type. Ft. Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/rmrs-gtr-332.

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Alanya-Rosenbaum, Sevda, and Richard Bergman. Using life-cycle assessment to evaluate environmental impacts of briquette production from forest residues. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/fpl-gtr-262.

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Alanya-Rosenbaum, Sevda, and Richard Bergman. Using life-cycle assessment to evaluate environmental impacts of torrefied briquette production from forest residues. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/fpl-gtr-263.

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Smith, James E., Linda S. Heath, and Jennifer C. Jenkins. Forest volume-to-biomass models and estimates of mass for live and standing dead trees of U.S. forests. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northeastern Research Station, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/ne-gtr-298.

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Lines, Lisa M., Marque C. Long, Jamie L. Humphrey, Crystal T. Nguyen, Suzannah Scanlon, Olivia K. G. Berzin, Matthew C. Brown, and Anupa Bir. Artificially Intelligent Social Risk Adjustment: Development and Pilot Testing in Ohio. RTI Press, September 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3768/rtipress.2022.rr.0047.2209.

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Prominent voices have called for a better way to measure, predict, and adjust for social factors in healthcare and population health. Local area characteristics are sometimes framed as a proxy for patient characteristics, but they are often independently associated with health outcomes. We have developed an “artificially intelligent” approach to risk adjustment for local social determinants of health (SDoH) using random forest models to understand life expectancy at the Census tract level. Our Local Social Inequity score draws on more than 150 neighborhood-level variables across 10 SDoH domains. As piloted in Ohio, the score explains 73 percent of the variation in life expectancy by Census tract, with a mean squared error of 4.47 years. Accurate multidimensional, cross-sector, small-area social risk scores could be useful in understanding the impact of healthcare innovations, payment models, and SDoH interventions in communities at higher risk for serious illnesses and diseases; identifying neighborhoods and areas at highest risk of poor outcomes for better targeting of interventions and resources; and accounting for factors outside of providers’ control for more fair and equitable performance/quality measurement and reimbursement.
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Miles, Patrick D. A simplified Forest Inventory and Analysis database: FIADB-Lite. Newtown Square, PA: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Research Station, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.2737/nrs-gtr-30.

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Payne, Theresa. Forms and Functions: Life-Anatomy or Physiology? Portland State University Library, January 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.15760/honors.96.

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Boyle, M., and Elizabeth Rico. Terrestrial vegetation monitoring at Cumberland Island National Seashore: 2020 data summary. National Park Service, September 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/2294287.

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The Southeast Coast Network (SECN) conducts long-term terrestrial vegetation monitoring as part of the nationwide Inventory and Monitoring Program of the National Park Service (NPS). The vegetation community vital sign is one of the primary-tier resources identified by SECN park managers, and it is currently conducted at 15 network parks (DeVivo et al. 2008). Monitoring plants and their associated communities over time allows for targeted understanding of ecosystems within the SECN geography, which provides managers information about the degree of change within their parks’ natural vegetation. 2020 marks the first year of conducting this monitoring effort at Cumberland Island National Seashore (CUIS). Fifty-six vegetation plots were established throughout the park from May through July. Data collected in each plot included species richness across multiple spatial scales, species-specific cover and constancy, species-specific woody stem seedling/sapling counts and adult tree (greater than 10 centimeters [3.9 inches {in}]) diameter at breast height (DBH), overall tree health, landform, soil, observed disturbance, and woody biomass (i.e., fuel load) estimates. This report summarizes the baseline (year 1) terrestrial vegetation data collected at Cumberland Island National Seashore in 2020. Data were stratified across three dominant broadly defined habitats within the park, including Coastal Plain Upland Open Woodlands, Maritime Open Upland Grasslands, and Maritime Upland Forests and Shrublands. Noteworthy findings include: 213 vascular plant taxa (species or lower) were observed across 56 vegetation plots, including 12 species not previously documented within the park. The most frequently encountered species in each broadly defined habitat included: Coastal Plain Upland Open Woodlands: longleaf + pond pine (Pinus palustris; P. serotina), redbay (Persea borbonia), saw palmetto (Serenoa repens), wax-myrtle (Morella cerifera), deerberry (Vaccinium stamineum), variable panicgrass (Dichanthelium commutatum), and hemlock rosette grass (Dichanthelium portoricense). Maritime Open Upland Grasslands: wax-myrtle, saw greenbrier (Smilax auriculata), sea oats (Uniola paniculata), and other forbs and graminoids. Maritime Upland Forests and Shrublands: live oak (Quercus virginiana), redbay, saw palmetto, muscadine (Muscadinia rotundifolia), and Spanish moss (Tillandsia usneoides) Two non-native species, Chinaberry (Melia azedarach) and bahiagrass (Paspalum notatum), categorized as invasive by the Georgia Exotic Pest Plant Council (GA-EPPC 2018) were encountered in four different Maritime Upland Forest and Shrubland plots during this monitoring effort. Six vascular plant species listed as rare and tracked by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources (GADNR 2022) were observed in these monitoring plots, including the state listed “Rare” Florida swampprivet (Forestiera segregata var. segregata) and sandywoods sedge (Carex dasycarpa) and the “Unusual” green fly orchid (Epidendrum conopseum). Longleaf and pond pine were the most dominant species within the tree stratum of Coastal Plain Upland Open Woodland habitat types; live oak was the most dominant species of Maritime Upland Forest and Shrubland types. Saw palmetto and rusty staggerbush (Lyonia ferruginea) dominated the sapling stratum within Maritime Upland Forest and Shrubland habitat types. Of the 20 tree-sized redbay trees measured during this monitoring effort only three were living and these were observed with severely declining vigor, indicating the prevalence and recent historical impact of laurel wilt disease (LWD) across the island’s maritime forest ecosystems. There was an unexpectedly low abundance of sweet grass (Muhlenbergia sericea) and saltmeadow cordgrass (Spartina patens) within interdune swale plots of Maritime Open Upland habitats on the island, which could be a result of grazing activity by feral horses. Live oak is the dominant tree-sized species across...
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Rajarajan, Kunasekaran, Alka Bharati, Hirdayesh Anuragi, Arun Kumar Handa, Kishor Gaikwad, Nagendra Kumar Singh, Kamal Prasad Mohapatra, et al. Status of perennial tree germplasm resources in India and their utilization in the context of global genome sequencing efforts. World Agroforestry, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5716/wp20050.pdf.

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Tree species are characterized by their perennial growth habit, woody morphology, long juvenile period phase, mostly outcrossing behaviour, highly heterozygosity genetic makeup, and relatively high genetic diversity. The economically important trees have been an integral part of the human life system due to their provision of timber, fruit, fodder, and medicinal and/or health benefits. Despite its widespread application in agriculture, industrial and medicinal values, the molecular aspects of key economic traits of many tree species remain largely unexplored. Over the past two decades, research on forest tree genomics has generally lagged behind that of other agronomic crops. Genomic research on trees is motivated by the need to support genetic improvement programmes mostly for food trees and timber, and develop diagnostic tools to assist in recommendation for optimum conservation, restoration and management of natural populations. Research on long-lived woody perennials is extending our molecular knowledge and understanding of complex life histories and adaptations to the environment, enriching a field that has traditionally drawn its biological inference from a few short-lived herbaceous species. These concerns have fostered research aimed at deciphering the genomic basis of complex traits that are related to the adaptive value of trees. This review summarizes the highlights of tree genomics and offers some priorities for accelerating progress in the next decade.
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Phuong, Vu Tan, Nguyen Van Truong, Do Trong Hoan, Hoang Nguyen Viet Hoa, and Nguyen Duy Khanh. Understanding tree-cover transitions, drivers and stakeholders’ perspectives for effective landscape governance: a case study of Chieng Yen Commune, Son La Province, Viet Nam. World Agroforestry, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5716/wp21023.pdf.

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Integrated landscape management for sustainable livelihoods and positive environmental outcomes has been desired by many developing countries, especially for mountainous areas where agricultural activities, if not well managed, will likely degrade vulnerable landscapes. This research was an attempt to characterize the landscape in Chieng Yen Commune, Son La Province in Northwest Viet Nam to generate knowledge and understanding of local conditions and to propose a workable governance mechanism to sustainably manage the landscape. ICRAF, together with national partners — Vietnamese Academy of Forest Sciences, Soil and Fertilizer Research Institute — and local partners — Son La Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Son La Department of Natural Resources and Environment, Chieng Yen Commune People’s Committee — conducted rapid assessments in the landscape, including land-use mapping, land-use characterization, a household survey and participatory landscape assessment using an ecosystem services framework. We found that the landscape and peoples’ livelihoods are at risk from the continuous degradation of forest and agricultural land, and declining productivity, ecosystem conditions and services. Half of households live below the poverty line with insufficient agricultural production for subsistence. Unsustainable agricultural practices and other livelihood activities are causing more damage to the forest. Meanwhile, existing forest and landscape governance mechanisms are generally not inclusive of local community engagement. Initial recommendations are provided, including further assessment to address current knowledge gaps.
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