Dissertations / Theses: 'Forests and forestry Private forests'

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Larson, Chad J. "Modeling forest transition pathways for decision making in private forestry." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4105.

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Thesis (M.S.) University of Missouri-Columbia, 2004.
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Wolter, Faren R. "Assessing the capacity for collaborative ecosystem stewardship on private forestland in the Missouri Ozarks." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4865.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on October 15, 2007) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

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Tichner, Elizabeth K. "Implementation of forest stewardship plans understanding the extent of forestry practices applied on enrolled properties in West Virginia /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10450/10561.

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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2009.
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Lawrence, Gerald D. "Stumpage price expectations: an empirical analysis of nonindustrial private landowners in the Mid-Atlantic states." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/51894.

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Numerous empirical studies outside of forestry have analyzed the role of price expectations in different decision processes. Empirical studies using price expectations in forestry research is a relatively new field of endeavor. Past studies have typically ignored or given cursory treatment to the role of price expectations. This study provides a review of studies in forestry that have attempted to incorporate price expectations into model formulations. Models are then developed to explain the short-run harvest, and long-run regeneration expenditure decisions by the non-industrial private forest owner, incorporating different distributed lag formulations to account for price expectations. The estimated models for the short-run harvest decision, using cross sectional non-aggregated data, indicates that price expectations play a significant role in this decision process. Therefore, price expectations should be incorporated in some form, (i.e. different forms of distributed lags), to properly specify models. Estimated models for the long-run regeneration expenditure decision indicates a weak link between economic variables and the regeneration decision. For both types of models, estimated coefficients for personal characteristics of landowners are in general considered insignificant, indicating the lack of influence that personal characteristics have on these decision processes
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Bull, Gary. "A feasibility study for the management of recreation and other selected non-timber resources on private industrial forest lands in coastal British Columbia." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/29746.

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Industrial private forest landowners in British Columbia have traditionally viewed their forest lands as a raw material supply for their wood processing facilities. However, they are now experiencing social and political changes which are restricting the way their forests are managed. These changes have enormous implications for large forestry firms, such as Canadian Pacific Forest Products. A portion of their lands, the focus of this study, has been examined to assess the impact of these restrictions on traditional land use. In addition, non-timber values have been examined for their revenue generating potential. A study area was delineated near the community of Sooke, B.C. Fishing, hunting, deer farming and camping were assessed. In order to complete the analysis, the costs in terms of foregone timber values, were calculated under a number of different assumptions. The impact of changes in bare land values on decisions with respect to the non-timber values were also examined. A number of policy changes, both by the landowner and the various levels of government involved, are required to promote forestry with a renewed emphasis on recreation. Initiating these changes is the next stage in the preparation of a recreation management plan for the area under study in this thesis.
Forestry, Faculty of
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Mickevičius, Karolis. "Pre-commercial Thinnings In Private Forests." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2011. http://vddb.laba.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2011~D_20110601_115930-14844.

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This thesis was started in order to find out how pre-commercial thinnings are violated in Lithuania. Analysis has been done in four methodological steps. Understanding forest owners’ behaviour to pre-commercial thinnings (PCT) is impossible without verifying real situation in practice. Therefore in the beginning inspection of 15 thoroughly selected sample stands was carried in central part of Lithuania. Results revealed that in none of 15 stands pre-commercial thinnings were performed as it is required by legislation. Only two stands showed some marks of PCT. Important factor having significant effect on application of thinnings in private forests is legislation system. Therefore Forest Law (2010a), Regulations for forest felling (2010b) and Regulations for tending and usage of private forests (2004) were analyzed. Regretfully pre-commercial thinnings as mandatory forest management tool until recently has not been described in any of the listed documents. Economic factors such as subsidies or loans could also be a part of implication of pre-commercial thinnings in private forests. Support from European Union funds is available in Lithuanian, though some requirements and stages of application process are not well appreciated by forest owners and stop them from using it. The main causes are: prohibition to perform thinnings for owners themselves; relatively small percent PCT expenses covered; too long and in some cases too messy support implementation process. For analysis... [to full text]
Šiuo metu pusė visų Lietuvos miškų priklauso valstybei, tačiau nemenka dalis yra ir privačių miškų savininkų rankose. Valdydami 829,4 tūkst. hektarų miškų, privačių miškų savininkai dažniausiai įžvelgia tik apsaugines ir estetines jų panaudojimo galimybes. Tiesa, kai kurie savininkai panaudoja turimą mišką kuro ar statybinių medžiagų gavimui, tačiau dažniausiai tik savo reikmėms tenkinti. Tai yra visiškai suprantama, kadangi vidutinės miško valdos dydis yra vos 3,28 hektaro (LRAM. 2010). Tik labai maža dalis privačių miškų savininkų pagalvoja apie ekonominę naudą, kurią galėtų gauti iš savo valdomo miško – tai, Lietuvos sąlygomis, didelių (5 ha ir daugiau) miško valdų savininkai (Mizaraite, 2001; Pivoriūnas, Lazdinis 2004). Ugdomieji miško kirtimai visuomet buvo ypač svarbi miškininkavimo dalis miškais garsėjančiose valstybėse. Tai yra ne kas kita, kaip tenykščių žmonių įžvalga ir supratimas, kad gerai ir teisingai prižiūrimas miškas ateityje gali būti daug vertingesnis, nei santaupos banke. Deja, tai nėra taisyklė Lietuvoje, kur ugdomieji miško kirtimai yra pamirštami arba nepakankami. To priežastimis galėtume laikyti finansinių išteklių trūkumą, nepakankamą žinių, kaip teisingai vykdyti ugdomuosius kirtimus, bagažą ar net savininkų amžių. Paskutinių tyrimų duomenimis, tipinis privataus miško savininkas Lietuvoje yra 56 metų amžiaus moteris, gyvenanti 100 kilometrų atstumu nuo jai priklausančios valdos (Mikalajūnas, 2009). Anot naujųjų miško kirtimų taisyklių, kurios... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]

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Walden, John B. "Combined federal-state death tax implications for nonindustrial private forest landowners in the United States." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1986. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/94488.

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Generally, death taxes are a social instrument used to break up large quantities of wealth in this country. They are intended to act as a pressure relief valve and prevent wealth concentration in the hands of a small number of individuals. Because the objectives and goals of individuals may be quite different from society, forest landowners are one group who face potentially serious problems due to death taxes. Illiquidity, low cash flows and credit problems can cause difficulties for heirs of forest land. Death taxes are examined from a historical, legal and economic perspective. Specifically, this study focuses on the implications of both federal and state death taxes on private forest landowners. Particular attention is paid to changes which have occurred because of the 1981 Economic Recovery Tax Act (ERTA). Provisions which are designed to give estate tax relief to nonindustrial private forest landowners are also examined. Study results show that federal death taxes are not reducing wealth concentration. It is also shown that through proper planning, estate taxes at the federal level can be eliminated. The state death tax burden can be substantial however, and must still be considered, even though many states have substantially eased their laws following ERTA. Proper planning, particularly when forest land is involved, should include both spouses. Finally, note that special provisions designed to give estate tax relief to farm and woodland owners have fallen short of this goal, primarily because of the complex regulations which are involved.
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Jennings, Brian M. "Implementation of recommended Forest Stewardship Program practices in West Virginia ten-year assessment /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2003. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2981.

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Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2003.
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Widman, Ulrika. "Protecting forests through partnerships." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-127072.

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This thesis addresses the potential of private-public partnerships (PPPs) to involve private forest owners in formal forest protection. These partnerships have been widely advocated as means to engage actors from diverse sectors in collaborative new relationships, formed in a step-wise manner, to improve management of resources that combine public and private goods. Nature Conservation Agreements (NCAs) are the first kind of PPPs to be used in Swedish forest protection. NCAs were introduced in 1993 and are agreements based in civil law between a private forest owner and the Swedish Forest Agency or County Administrative Board. Although NCAs were introduced to promote interest in nature conservation among forest owners, the response has been rather weak. Thus, in 2010 the government launched a pilot project called the Komet program, in which private forest owners in selected pilot areas initiated protective measures. Although criticized by environmental non-governmental organizations, the government decided after the pilot project terminated in 2014 to implement the Komet program’s working methods nationwide. In this thesis, PPPs’ potential to contribute to forest protection is analyzed by applying the “Ladder of Partnership Activity” framework, developed to study global PPPs, with appropriate modifications for a national context. The framework incorporates, in a stepwise manner, context, the actors’ motives relating to trust-building, the creation of collaborative advantages in the partnering process and the institutionalization of PPPs. The thesis contributes to an empirical understanding of top-down and bottom-up PPP processes. It is based on studies in which qualitative research methods were applied to examine selected cases presented in four papers, designated Papers I-IV. The main sources of information are qualitative interviews with involved forest actors and policy documents they have produced. Papers I and II focus particularly on trust-building and the partnering process as perceived by involved forest actors, while Papers III and IV address the institutionalization of PPPs and their requirements to change the political order of forest protection in accordance with governmental objectives. The results show that willingness to adopt PPPs is dependent on past experience of collaborative efforts. They also show there is substantial discretion in involved actors’ interpretation of prescribed guidelines, and their motives may vary substantially. However, as long as they share the same ultimate objective, i.e. to protect forests, PPPs may still be successfully established. A major potential problem is that public officials tend to prioritize protection of biodiversity, while forest owners want to protect social values and unproductive (“useless”) forests. Thus, shared motives are essential to establish trust and initiate collaborative efforts. The voluntary element of initiatives supported by the Komet program appears to be essential for deliberation. PPPs need to be implemented nationwide to be institutionalized. However, the Swedish government has not provided sufficient resources and leadership capacity to enable PPPs to play their envisaged role in its forest governance system. If the government wants to adopt bottom-up approaches, it needs to provide sufficient resources so that the partnerships does not compete with other formal instruments and protection arrangements. Furthermore, coordination within and between sectors needs to be improved to clarify the purpose of the policy recommendations.

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Stanislovaitis, Andrius. "Privačių miškų kontrolės sistemos Lietuvoje analizė." Master's thesis, Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), 2009. http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2009~D_20090615_115135-81772.

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Magistro darbe analizuojama Lietuvos privačių miškų kontrolės sistema. Darbo objektas – Lietuvos privačių miškų valstybinės kontrolės sistema. Darbo tikslas – išanalizuoti privačių miškų valstybinės kontrolės sistemą Lietuvoje bei ištirti miško kontrolės pareigūnų ir miško savininkų požiūrį į jos funkcionavimą. Darbo metodai: dokumentų analizė, anketinė apklausa ir loginė analizė. Darbo rezultatai: Lietuvos privatus miškų ūkis sąlyginai smulkus. Savininkams trūksta žinių ir pasiruošimo. Nors dauguma savininkų pelno nesiekia, privatūs miškai naudojami intensyviau nei valstybiniai. Valstybinę privačių miškų būklės, naudojimo, atkūrimo ir apsaugos kontrolę vykdo bei miško savininkus konsultuoja regionų aplinkos apsaugos departamentų rajoninės agentūros. Pareigūnų darbą apsunkina netobula teisinė bazė bei resursų trūkumas. Kontrolė daugiau grindžiama tiesioginiu reguliavimu, veiklą ribojant draudimais arba išduodant leidimus, o ne informacinėmis (mokymu ir konsultavimu) ar ekonominėmis (subsidijomis ir mokesčiais) priemonėmis. Nors dabartinė kontrolė respondentų vertinama gerai, dalis jų pripažįsta, kad ji perdėta, o dauguma sutinka, kad ateityje jos apimtys turėtų mažėti ir būtų taikomi mažesni reikalavimai. Respondentai nurodė, kad šiuo metu konsultacijų savininkams nepakanka, o ateityje jų turi daugėti. Išaugęs konsultacijų ir savininkų švietimo kiekis ne tik sumažintų miškuose daromų pažeidimų kiekį, bet ir kartu su ekonominėmis priemonėmis skatintų savininkus efektyviau... [toliau žr. visą tekstą]
Lithuanian private forests control is being analyzed in this master thesis. Object of the work – the state control system of Lithuanian private forests. Objective of the work - to analyze the state control system of Lithuanian private forests and to survey the attitude of control officers and forest owners towards its functioning. Methods: Document analysis, questionnaire, logical analysis. Results: Private forestry in Lithuania is relatively small scale. Private forest owners lack knowledge. Even if most of the owners do not seek for profit, private forests are used more intensively than state ones. The control of private forests state, utilization, regeneration and protection is carried out by the agencies of regional environment protection departments. The work of control officers is hampered by lack of recourses and imperfect legal acts. The control of private forest owners in Lithuania is mostly based on direct regulation (restrictions and permissions), but very little on extension services and economic incentives. The present control is described as good by the respondents, but some agree that it is too strict and most declare that its amounts and requirements should be reduced in the future. Respondents indicated that there is a lack of consultations at the moment and consulting amounts should grow in the future. Bigger amounts of consulting and training should not only reduce the amount of violations in private forests, but also, together with economical incentives... [to full text]

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Fortney, Jenny. "An evaluation of West Virginia Managed Timberland forest tax incentive program." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10450/10553.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--West Virginia University, 2009.
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Silva, Augusto Ventura Monteiro Pinheiro da. "Gestão florestal e propriedade: A floresta, a (sua) propriedade e o alcance das políticas públicas." Master's thesis, Universidade de Évora, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10174/18605.

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O trabalho pretende questionar se as necessidades da gestão da floresta e as interacções com o ambiente, justificam o repensar do conceito de propriedade privada, na definição de políticas florestais concretizadoras duma «mundividência ambiental». Estrutura-se em quatro partes: primeiro, procura-se dar uma perspectiva do direito de propriedade privada, a sua perenidade na nossa cultura, sobretudo na cultura jurídica; segundo, analisa-se a dinâmica da propriedade privada da floresta nos últimos séculos, e as soluções de políticas florestais- destacando-se a criação das zonas de intervenção florestal (ZIF); terceiro, estuda-se em concreto o regime de certificação florestal, como forma específica de gestão florestal; quarto, sublinham-se novos desafios ambientais à gestão das florestas, designadamente a identificação dos problemas que emergem em resultado das alterações climáticas, destacando-se o sequestro de carbono e a criação do mercado de carbono. Este estudo não é estanque, faz parte de um mesmo questionamento: é o ambiente um valor para a humanidade ou é um valor em si mesmo? ABSTRACT: The work intends to question if the private property of the forest, toward the necessities of management and interactions with the environment, justifies the rethink of the concept, in forest politics definition, producer of an interactive view of the environment. lt is structured in four parts: first, it intends to give a perspective of the right of private property, its longevity in our culture, the importance of legal quarrel; second, the dynamics of the private property of the forest, in the latest centuries, and the solutions of the implemented forest politics - being distinguished the creation of zones of forest intervention, the ZIF; third, the forest management forest certification; fourth, the environmental source, the identification of problems that emerge in result of climatic alterations, being distinguished the kidnap of carbon and the creation of the carbon market. This study is not tight; it is part of the same reflection: of being the environment a value for the humanity or a value in itself exactly.

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Flores, Roberto Jose. "Speaking Private Authority: The Construction of Sustainability in Forests and Fisheries." FIU Digital Commons, 2017. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3565.

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The aim of this dissertation is to expand upon current understandings of the emergent global phenomenon that is private authority. Private authority is a process wherein private actors create, implement, and enforce rules aimed at managing global problems. As private authority is becoming increasingly important in the conduct of global governance, broadening our understanding of it will serve the field of International Relations. In this dissertation I argue that private actors are not simply outgrowths of structures or certain material conditions, rather they are purposive actors strategically pursuing an agenda. As such, explaining private authority requires an examination of the constitutive elements that underlie this social phenomenon––to which I apply an innovative conceptual and analytical framework that combines social network theory with discourse analysis. I applied these tools to two cases taken from the environmental sector––forests and fisheries. I found that as a result of the development of a greater networked character to environmental politics, the actors that were best able to generate and wield private authority were those that were able to construct discursive nodal points around which other competing actors could converge––at the level of identity. The construction of nodal points placed these private actors in privileged positions in-between competing networks––making them network connectors. In this position they are able to facilitate the flow of power across networks and convert such into private authority, at a rate greater than that of their competitors. As related to the cases, I found that in forests and fisheries sectors it was the Forest Stewardship Council and Marine Stewardship Council that emerged as the most prominent and expansive private authorities. They did so as a result of their ability to construct a nodal point around their tailored definition of what sustainable development meant, and looked like in practice. This placed them in-between two powerful networks (the environmental NGO network and the industrial network), facilitating the flow of power between them, and leveraging such to expand their programs beyond that of competing programs. Thus, social position plays a crucial role in determining the success of private authority programs.

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Urquhart, Julie. "Public benefits from private forests and woodland in England : investigating the opportunities for public good enhancement." Thesis, University of Gloucestershire, 2009. http://eprints.glos.ac.uk/3191/.

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Public goods such as environmental conservation, amenity and carbon sequestration are increasingly emphasised in forest policy agendas. However, many public benefits in woodlands have occurred incidentally, rather than on the basis of socio-economic logic and often at locations relatively inaccessible to major centres of population. In fact, data reveal a concentration of privately owned woodland in densely populated areas, especially in central and southern England, and that woodland is often factored into residential location decisions and lifestyle behaviours. However, the provision of public goods is likely to be contingent on the value systems of private forest and woodland owners and their flexibility of response to measures promoted under the devolved forest strategies. A combination of qualitative and quantitative research methods were employed to construct a robust typology of private woodland owners with respect to their willingness and ability to deliver public good benefits in three study areas in England: the Lake District, Cornwall and the High Weald AONB. Building on an exploratory scoping study, Q Methodology interviews were conducted with 10 woodland owners in each study area, followed by a self-completion survey, administered using Dillman's Total Design Method. Data from 600 woodland owners was subjected to a Factor and Cluster Analysis, with the emergent model validated using Discriminant Analysis. Six discrete private woodland owner types were revealed: Individualists, Multifunctional Owners, Private Consumers, Conservationists, Investors and Amenity Owners. Important distinctions between owner groups are associated with the likely provision of particular benefits and disbenefits, and the classification suggests that a move from a production versus consumption/protection framework to one that includes intersecting goals may be more appropriate. Policy implications are discussed to facilitate use of the typology in targeting particular woodland owner groups with more nuanced policy mechanisms, including incentive schemes, market mechanisms and advisory services.

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Goodwin, Christopher C. H. "The Influence of Cost-sharing Programs on Southern Non-industrial Private Forests." Thesis, Virginia Tech, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/30895.

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This study was undertaken in response to concerns that the decreasing levels of funding for government tree planting cost share programs will result in significant reductions in non-industrial private tree planting efforts in the South. The purpose of this study is to quantify how the funding of various cost share programs, and market signals interact and affect the level of private tree planting. The results indicate that the ACP, CRP, and Soil Bank programs have been more influential than the FIP, FRM, FSP, SIP, and State run subsidy programs. Reductions in the CRP funding will result in less tree planting; while it is not clear that funding reductions in FIP, or other programs targeted toward reforestation after harvest, will have a negative impact on tree planting levels.
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Bartley, Timothy William. "Certifying forests and factories: The emergence of private systems for regulating labor and environmental conditions." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280343.

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Private, non-governmental programs for certifying companies as environmentally or socially responsible emerged in the 1990s in response to problems of sweatshops in the global apparel industry and deforestation in the forest products industry. The similarity between certification programs in each field is striking but has received little attention to date. Neither pure self-regulation nor traditional public regulation, certification programs embody a type of "private regulation by information." Why did this same regulatory form emerge in these two very different fields? Theories focusing on consumer demand, the globalization of production, threats of state intervention, and cultural diffusion all fall short of explaining the emergence of certification systems in both the apparel and forest products fields. This dissertation develops an integrated institutional approach to the emergence of certification systems, focusing on three dimensions of institutional emergence--political, organizational, and cultural. This approach calls for careful attention to historical process, macro-meso linkages, institutional embeddedness, and the dynamics of political contestation--with particular emphasis on the place of social movements in organizational fields. The project uses a comparative case study methodology, drawing on data from 37 in-depth interviews with individuals involved in the creation of certification programs, comprehensive content-coding of four trade journals from 1987-2000, and some archival and secondary materials. An analysis of the political processes through which certification associations initially emerged reveals two important factors--social movement campaigns that targeted companies and a neo-liberal institutional context. These led states, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and some companies to build or support private certification programs, and foreclosed some other options. An analysis of organizational founding shows how dynamics of innovation and challenge produced multiple certification programs competing for legitimacy in each field. The cultural aspect of institutional emergence is captured through an analysis of how the meanings of certification and monitoring changed over time in the industry discourse, as these practices got theorized and re-framed by a variety of actors. By utilizing an integrated institutional approach, this research illuminates the interactions of macro-level changes (like globalization) and the concrete actors (institutional entrepreneurs) that produced certification initiatives.

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Salbanyà, Benet Jordi. "La conservació dels boscos per part dels propietaris privats forestals." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/672342.

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Aquesta tesi ofereix una visió crítica del deure de conservació dels boscos que s’imposa als propietaris privats. Amb aquesta finalitat analitzarem aquesta institució jurídica des de diferents perspectives i, en primer lloc, veurem com s’ha tractat la seva protecció en els fòrums de política internacional i quins compromisos han assumit els estats en aquesta protecció al llarg dels darrers cinquanta anys des que es va fer palesa la necessitat de salvaguardar el medi ambient. En segon lloc, examinarem com s’incorpora en l’ordenament constitucional estatal aquest recurs natural dins la matèria de medi ambient; com la seva protecció és regulada per la legislació bàsica estatal forestal o per la de protecció de la natura, i també la manera que el tracten les estratègies aprovades per part de l’executiu central amb aquesta finalitat proteccionista. De la mateixa manera, exposarem la importància que tenen els boscos a Catalunya com a realitat ambiental i territorial, des del punt de vista estatutari, de polítiques públiques i de les legislacions sectorials. Així mateix veurem quin paper tenen en aquesta protecció les administracions locals i com hi intervenen per mitjà de les competències en matèria forestal i urbanística, tant en la planificació com en l’ordenació del territori. Un cop definits els boscos com a objecte material de l’estudi, en tercer lloc parlarem de les singularitats que es donen quan aquests són objecte de domini privat, i com ha influït el fet que la funció social hagi vingut a delimitar el dret de la propietat en general, i de la forestal en particular. D’aquesta propietat vinculada també posarem de relleu les diferències de la privada, que és la que ens ocupa en l’estudi, respecte altres formes de domini dels terrenys forestals. En el quart i darrer lloc explicarem que el deure de protegir els boscos que en el concert internacional assumeixen els estats i s’incorpora en l’ordre constitucional propi, per mor d’aquesta funció social la legislació que regula l’estatut jurídic de la propietat del sòl ho concreta en un deure específic a càrrec dels seus propietaris privats. Un deure que, com veurem, és imprecís en el seu contingut i desproporcionat si el comparem amb el deure de conservació d’altres tipus de propietats. Finalment ens detindrem en les mesures de foment amb les quals des de l’administració pública es pot i s’ha d’ajudar els propietaris per tal que puguin fer front al deure de conservació imposat. I tot plegat per concloure amb la formulació d’unes conclusions que incorporen les propostes de mesures legislatives i de polítiques públiques que al nostre entendre caldria adoptar.
Esta tesis ofrece una visión crítica del deber de conservación de los bosques que se impone a los propietarios privados. Con esta finalidad analizaremos esta institución jurídica desde diferentes perspectivas y, en primer lugar, veremos como se ha tratado su protección en los foros de política internacional y qué compromisos han asumido los Estados en esta protección a lo largo de los últimos cincuenta años desde que se puso de manifiesto la necesidad de salvaguardar el medio ambiente. En segundo lugar, examinaremos cómo se incorpora en el ordenamiento constitucional estatal este recurso natural en la materia de medio ambiente; como su protección es regulada por la legislación básica estatal forestal o para la de protección de la naturaleza, así como la manera que lo tratan las estrategias aprobadas con este fin proteccionista por parte del Ejecutivo central. Del mismo modo, expondremos la importancia que tienen los bosques en Cataluña como realidad ambiental y territorial, desde el punto de vista estatutario, de políticas públicas y de las legislaciones sectoriales. Asimismo veremos qué papel tienen en esta protección las administraciones locales y como intervienen por medio de las competencias en materia forestal y urbanística, tanto en la planificación como en la ordenación del territorio. Una vez definidos los bosques como objeto material del estudio, en tercer lugar hablaremos de las singularidades que se dan cuando éstos son objeto de dominio privado, y cómo ha influido el hecho de que la función social haya venido a delimitar el derecho de la propiedad en general, y de la forestal en particular. De esta propiedad vinculada también pondremos de relieve las diferencias de la privada, que es la que nos ocupa en el estudio, respecto otras formas de dominio de los terrenos forestales. En el cuarto y último lugar explicaremos que el deber de proteger los bosques que en el concierto internacional asumen los Estados y se incorpora en el orden constitucional propio, por mor de esta función social la legislación que regula el estatuto jurídico de la propiedad del suelo lo concreta en un deber específico a cargo de sus propietarios privados. Un deber que, como veremos, es impreciso en su contenido y desproporcionado si lo comparamos con el deber de conservación de otros tipos de propiedades. Finalmente nos detendremos en las medidas de fomento con las que desde la administración pública se puede y se debe ayudar a los propietarios para que puedan hacer frente al deber de conservación impuesto. Y todo ello para concluir con la formulación de unas conclusiones que incorporan las propuestas de medidas legislativas y de políticas públicas que a nuestro entender se deberían adoptar.
This dissertation attempts to offer a critical view of the duty of conservation imposed on private owners concerning their forest lands. To this end, I offer several approaches to this legal institution, firstly, analysing how the international policy bodies have dealt with the protection of forests, and what role the States have assumed in this protection over the last fifty years since the need to safeguard the environment became apparent. Secondly, I analyse how this natural resource is dealt with in the State constitutional order, in terms of environment, and at the same time how the basic State forest and nature protection legislation regulate its protection and how it is incorporated into the strategies approved by the central executive for this protectionist purpose. Moreover, I explain the importance of forests in Catalonia as an environmental and territorial reality, from the point of view of the Statute of Autonomy of Catalonia, public policies, and sectoral legislation. I also analyse the role played by local administrations in this protection and how they intervene using powers in the field of forestry and urban planning, both in planning and in the territorial organisation. Once the forests have been defined as the material object of this paper, I analyse the singularities that arise when they are the object of the private domain, and how the social function has influenced the delimitation of property rights in general and, specifically, forest rights. On this related property, I look at the differences of the private one, which is the one we are dealing with herein, concerning the other forms of detention of the domain of forest lands. And fourthly, I analyse how the duty to protect forests assumed by the States in the international arena is incorporated into their constitutional order, because of this social function, the legislation regulating the legal status of land ownership is made specific to the duty of private owners. A duty that, as we will see herein, is imprecise in its content and disproportionate concerning the duty to preserve other types of properties. Finally, I look at the measures that the public administration shall use to help owners so that they can meet the duty of conservation imposed. To conclude, I make some proposals for legislative measures and public policies that I consider should be adopted.

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Stickler, Claudia Margret. "Defending public interests in private forests land-use policy alternatives for the Xingu River headwaters region of southeastern Amazonia /." [Gainesville, Fla.] : University of Florida, 2009. http://purl.fcla.edu/fcla/etd/UFE0041028.

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Rasamoelina, Maminiaina Solonirina. "Adoption of sustainable forestry practices by Non-Industrial Private Forest owners in Virginia." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27865.

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The concept of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) has been promoted in the past few decades all over the world. Non-industrial private forest (NIPF) owners play an important role in that aspect in the U.S. because of their number (about 16 millions), the size of forest land under their control (about half of all forest land in the continental US), and the dynamism of their population (increasing number of new owners). This study sought to better understand how NIPF owners come to a decision for adoption (or non-adoption) of SFM practices. We developed a theoretical model combining four theories (the Value-Belief-Norm theory, the Theory of Planned Behavior, the Elaboration Likelihood Model, and the Innovation-Diffusion Process) to explain NIPFâ s decision making. Using multivariate analyses, we determined which elements of the developed theoretical model were significant in explaining adoption of eight groups of practices. Overall, some of the most significant predictors of adoption we identified were technical assistance, motivations for owning land and the use of a written management plan. Particular attention was also directed toward the eventual relationship between education and adoption of SFM practices and it was found that NIPF owners who attended educational programs tended to be likely adopters compared to those who did not attend any educational program. Since SFM was not limited to the US, we also analyzed the concept of SFM with the same goals as in the US, but under a completely different context (socio-cultural, economic and ecologic) in Africa, through the community-based natural resource management (CBNRM) system. We used four case studies and focused on criteria such as participation, equity (both procedural and distributive, power devolution, trust, etc) to analyze how CBNRM works on the field, what lessons to take from the cases to better ensure the goal of sustainability of the resources.
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Pettersson, Kristina. "Frivilliga avsättningar i gröna skogsbruksplaner - en fallstudie av sex skogsfastigheter samt en enkätundersökning i Östergötland." Thesis, Linköping University, Linköping University, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, 2009. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-16378.

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Frivilliga avsättningar av skog med höga naturvärden är en viktig del för att nå Miljömålet ”Levande skogar”. Det finns dock tveksamheter om de naturvårdsbiologiska kvalitéerna i dessa avsättningar. Syftet med denna studie var därför att undersöka om den skog som avsätts frivilligt av privata skogsägare är den skogsmark som har de högsta naturvärdena på fastigheten. Vidare studerades också markägarens naturvårdskunnande, utbildningsnivå och attityd till naturvård. Detta kan påverka viljan att avsätta skog frivilligt, hur långsiktig avsättningen blir samt kvalitén på avsättningarna. Studien består av inventeringar på sex skogsfastigheter i Östergötland med frivilliga avsättningar, samt en enkätstudie till skogsägare. Det visade sig att skogsägarna i huvudsak avsatte de bestånd med högst naturvärde på fastigheten. Tre bestånd (en lövskog, en tallskog samt en källmiljö) av totalt 59 hyste högre naturvärde än de frivilligt avsatta. De avsatta skogarnas hade lägre virkestäthet än produktionsbestånden och bestod i större utsträckning av lövskog. Majoriteten av skogsägarna avsatte skogen långsiktigt för kommande generationer. När skogsägarna fick rangordna syftet med sin skogsfastighet prioriterades virke i första hand, naturvård värderades betydligt lägre. En mätning av kunskaper i tillämpad ekologi och artkännedom visade att skogsägarnas kunskaper i regel var bristfälliga när det gällde igenkänning av indikatorarter samt viktiga trädslag för artbevarande. Majoriteten av de som var negativa till att göra frivilliga avsättningar kunde tänka sig att ändra åsikt vid ”skälig ersättning”. Mer omfattande studier behövs för att avgöra om mina resultat var representativa och om de frivilliga avsättningarna verkligen hyser fastighetens högsta naturvärden och lever upp till miljömålet levande skogar.

Voluntarily protected forests with high nature conservation value are an important part of fulfilling the environmental objective "Sustainableforests". The aim of this study was to evaluate if the voluntarily protected forests are those with the highest conservation value for threatened species¹ on the estate. Another purpose was to investigate the knowledge in applied ecology among small-scale foresters, their educational level and attitudes towards conservation. The study contains inventories at six different estates in the county of Östergötland and a query targeted to small-scale forest owners. The foresters in my study set aside the areas with the highest conservation values on the estate with few exceptions. Three areas (one deciduous forest, one pine forest and a well) out of 59 had a higher conservation value than the areas set aside voluntarily. The voluntarily protected forests had less timber density than the productive areas and contained more deciduous forest. A majority of the foresters voluntarily protected forests where intended to remain for future generations. As part of my study the foresters also got to rank the purpose of the forest estate. Timber got the highest rank while nature conservation got a considerable lower rank. A measurement of the small-scale forester's knowledge in applied ecology and indicator species showed that their knowledge often was inadequate regarding indicator species. A majority of those negative to voluntary forest conservation areas on their own estate were willing to change view if they were given adequate economic compensation.

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Gustafsson, Julia. "Nya kommunikationsvägar till marknaden : En marknadsanalys av privata skogsägares behov av skogliga tjänster." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för skog och träteknik (SOT), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-65788.

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The enterprise Derome Forest, which manages the supply of raw materials to Derome Group's industries, wants to develop its communications with suppliers and also the forest services that the company provides. The purpose of the study was to find new information channels for forest companies to communicate about forest services to existing and future suppliers. In order to answer the research questions and achieve the purpose of the study, a questionnaire was chosen as a method in combination with a focus group. The most sought after services were final felling, thinning, and pre commercial thinning and planting. Forestry magazines, personal meetings and social activities were important sources of knowledge for forest owners. Few of the forest owners replied that they used the websites of forest companies or followed them on social media, although most of the respondents estimated that their internet use for forest purposes will increase. Digital calendars with forest companies' activities and mobile apps for measuring and calculating were digital tools that were requested. Damage and diseases on forests, intrusion issues and thinning were subjects that many forest owners thought was difficult. Greater diversity in forestry methods and a more goal-based and diversified advice were requested from forest companies.

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Serra, Nunes Samia. "Beyond protected areas : assessing the role of legal reserves and permanent preservation areas for conserving tropical forests in private properties in the eastern Brazilian Amazon." Thesis, Lancaster University, 2016. http://eprints.lancs.ac.uk/82283/.

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Native vegetation covers about 60% of the national territory of Brazil, with 40% under some form of public protected area (conservation units and indigenous lands) and the remaining 60% located in private areas or public lands with no clear designation. The protection of forests on private land is therefore a vital part of any overall conservation strategy. In Brazil, the conservation of forest on private lands is regulated by the Brazilian Environmental Law (Law N° 12.651, 25 March 2012), commonly known as the Forest Code, and focus on two main mechanisms: Legal Reserves (LR) and Permanent Preservation Areas (APP in Portuguese). The aim of this thesis is to advance our understanding of some of the key challenges and opportunities facing forest conservation and restoration in the Brazilian Amazon by assessing the LR and APPs on private lands. Focused on Pará, the thesis provides the first assessment of the total LR deficit (LR that have been illegally deforested in the past) for any of Brazil´s Amazonian states as well as a uniquely comprehensive assessment of legal compliance with the protection and restoration of APPs, and critically examines implications for different actors and public policy. In Chapter 2 we found no evidence that riparian forests had been more effectively protected than non-riparian forests in the flagship municipality of Paragominas. Instead, deforestation was found to be comparatively higher inside riparian permanent preservation areas as recently as 2010, indicating widespread failure of private property owners to comply with environmental legislation. Moreover there was no evidence for higher levels of regeneration in deforested riparian zones than non-riparian zones, although property owners are obliged by law to restore such areas. A number of challenges limit efforts to improve the protection and restoration of riparian forests. These include limited awareness of environmental compliance requirements, better cartographic products and limitations in the technical capacity of the state and municipality governments. Considering the whole state of Pará, Chapter 3 shows that the total LR surplus (12.6 Mha) – based on the revised Forest Code – is more than five times the total area of deficit (2.3 Mha). Yet, of this total surplus, only 11% can be legally deforested (is in properties with >80% forest cover) and the remaining 89% is already protected by law but can be used (sold or rented) to compensate for areas that are under deficit. This analysis identifies that the majority of municipalities (111 out of 144) in the state could compensate their total LR deficit with surplus areas of LR within the same municipality, indicating compensation can always take place close to the source of the deficit. Maximizing the environmental benefits of achieving Forest Code compliance requires measures that go beyond the existing legal framework, including interventions to avoid further deforestation in places where it is still legal, compensate in close proximity to areas with legal reserve deficit and promote local restoration on degraded lands. Finally, Chapter 4 finds that, despite riparian APPs being mostly covered by forest in the state of Pará (63%), the area required to be restored by law (1 Mha) accounts for only about one-third of the deforested area that does not need to be restored following the 2012 revision of the Forest Code. This suggests that some important catchments in Pará may not recover fully functioning hydrological and ecological services, as around 2.7 Mha of consolidated APP are likely to remain deforested. We also demonstrated how coarse-scale mapping data consistently underestimates the extent of different APP areas, and thus the scale of the challenge presented by the compliance requirements of the forest code. In improving our understanding of the requirements and potential for forest compensation and restoration, through the mechanisms of APP and LR, offers a key advance for achieving environmental compliance in Pará and elsewhere in the Brazilian Amazon and the wider tropics.

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Skarin, Johanna. "Privata skogsägares tro på, upplevelse och anpassning av skogsbruket till klimatförändringar." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för skog och träteknik (SOT), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-54150.

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Climate scenarios for Sweden show that average temperatures could rise by 4-7 degrees by year 2100. Forecasts show that climate zones will shift northward by about 5-10 kilometers every year, which will result in large changes for forestry. The purpose of this study was to answer whether private forest owner's belief in and adaptation to climate change have increased since 2010. Furthermore, to investigate whether private forest owners have experienced climate change in their forestry and if this in turn affects the belief in and adaptation to climate change. A questionnaire was sent to 700 forest owners in Kronoberg County in Sweden. Nearly 20% of those respondents who answered that yes they certainly have experienced any weather or climate conditions which they interpret as a cause of climate change has also responded that they, yes certainly believe that climate change that it affects their forest. 28% of the respondents replied that they had adapted their forestry to climate change. The study showed that the proportion forest owners believing in climate change as well as the proportion adapting forestry to climate change has increased since 2010. There was a relation between belief in climate change mand the degree of adaption. There was also a relation between the perception of climate change and belief in climate change. A correlation was also seen between the experience of climate change and the level of adaption.

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Ingemarson, Fredrik. "Small-scale forestry in Sweden : owners' objectives, silvicultural practices and management plans /." Uppsala : Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2004. http://diss-epsilon.slu.se/archive/00000657/.

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Appendix includes reprints of four papers and manuscripts co-authored with others. Also issued electronically via World Wide Web in PDF format.

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Starr, Sarah Elizabeth. "Factors Associated with Ohio Tree Farmers'; Forest Management and Outreach Needs." The Ohio State University, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1366145812.

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Mitchell, Jennifer Diane Lockaby Bruce Graeme. "Biogeochemical Influence of Chinese privet in riparian forests in West Georgia and the Influence of oyster harvesting in Apalachicola Bay, Florida." Auburn, Ala, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1717.

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Bocké, Alice. "Hållbart skogsbruk och naturvård – ett skogsägarperspektiv." Thesis, Stockholm University, Stockholm Resilience Centre, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-7821.

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The Swedish government has set up 16 environmental goals for Sweden to achieve. One of

them is “Living forests”, which is the foundation for the “National strategy for the formal

protection of forests”. The “National strategy” puts the private forest owner at the centre of

attention in order to achieve the environmental goal “Living forests”. Adaptive Management

could help with the implementation of the “National strategy”. 9 qualitative interviews have

been done in order to examine how the communication between private forest owners and

responsible authorities works. The interviews give the private forest owners’ perspective, and

what they want the communication to be like, when it comes to conservation biology.

Communication, language, and how to deal with conservation biology have been the main

issues brought up during the interviews. The private forest owners also demand more

flexibility and a keener ear from responsible authorities. The private forest owners would like

a better knowledge of what is happening when it comes to conservation biology on their land.

The private forest owners and the responsible authorities do have similar goals for what they

want to achieve with the forest, but they disagree on how to achieve that goal.

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Ekströmer, Karin. "Produktion och miljötänk - då och nu : Introduktion och utveckling av miljöhänsyn i svenskt skogsbruk." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för skog och träteknik (SOT), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-65439.

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Sveriges natur förknippas mer än något annat med skog. Två tredjedelar av landets drygt 40 miljoner hektar landareal täcks av skog. Av 27,1 miljoner hektar skogsmark (inklusive skyddad mark) är 23,3 miljoner hektar produktiv skogsmark. Andelen privata skogsägare uppgår till ca 330 000 personer och äger hälften av all skogsmark i Sverige samt levererar drygt 60 % av den totala råvaran till skogsindustrin. Skogsstyrelsens, och skogsvårdstyrelsernas, främsta roll har alltsedan bemyndigandet 1903 varit rådgivning till skogsägarna, ett viktigt styrmedel för att kunna förebygga lagingripanden och mildra lagstiftningen. I början av 1960-talet väcktes det diskussioner, som sedan dess har varit aktuella, om: att jordens resurser är ändliga och hur vi förvaltar dem. Det mest turbulenta årtiondet för svensk skogsvårdpolitik var 1970-talet och den tidiga miljörelaterade kritiken mot skogsbruket var inte underbyggd av forskning om miljötillståndet i skogen, utan skapades av en allmän opinion i samhället. Flertalet av de intervjuade skogsägarna uppgav att rådgivning varit viktiga vägledare för dem i deras skogsvårdsbeslut, även om det i enstaka fall fått negativa konsekvenser. Miljöhänsynens avtryck i den enskilda skogsägarens skogsvård följer i stort sett den historiska utvecklingen, det är dock inte entydigt om det i första hand berott på Skogsvårdsstyrelsens kampanjer och rådgivning. Resultatet visar att rådgivning i miljöhänsyn påverkar skogsägarnas beslut i sina val av beståndsåtgärder. Den viktigaste slutsatsen som kan dras av studien är att rådgivning, utbildning och kunskaper är de avgörande framgångsfaktorerna i det fortsatta miljövårdsarbetet. Större hänsyn till den enskilde skogsbrukarens äganderätt, erfarenheter och kännedom om sin mark är något som både myndigheter samt den allmänna opinionen bör iaktta och värdesätta.
About two-thirds of Swedens land area is covered by forest. Half of the total forest land is owned by private forest owners.The purpose of this study was to describe the decades before and after the environmental concerns became self-evident in Swedish forestry, and from a forest policy perspective elucidate the introduction of environmental concerns in forest management. Interviews with private forest owners and field studys was conducted to identify specific occurences of conservation that could be linked to advisory service from The National Board of Forestry since the 1970´s. The result shows that guidance, education and skills are crucial success factors for the continuence of conservation and sustainable forestry, but also greater consideration and respect for the private forest owners property rights, experiences and knowledge.

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Zhu, Pengyu Zhang Yaoqi. "Demand for urban forests a national and regional study /." Auburn, Ala., 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10415/1325.

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Schneider, Brian Jonathan. "Forestry Cooperatives for Diverse Management Goals: An Assessment of Interest Levels among Maine's Nonindustrial Private Forest Owners Enrolled in the Tree Growth Tax Program." Fogler Library, University of Maine, 2005. http://www.library.umaine.edu/theses/pdf/SchneiderBJ2005.pdf.

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Lele, Dorothy Carleton University Dissertation International Affairs. "Common resource development: community forestry in Maharashtra, India." Ottawa, 1988.

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Baucom, Deana L. "Armillaria species in the Missouri Ozarks forests." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4306.

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The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (May 18, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

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Thrower, James S. "Model-dependent sampling for timber value in old-growth forests of coastal British Columbia." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 1989. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/31308.

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The procedure used to sample crown timber before harvesting in B.C. is designed to estimate net volume per ha using systematically located angle-count plots where trees are selected with probability proportional to basal area. The primary purpose of the sample is to provide information for timber valuation and stumpage appraisal. Timber value is the most important population parameter for stumpage calculation, but it is not explicitly considered in the sampling design. The objective of this study was to modify the current sampling method to increase the efficiency for estimating value using model-dependent sampling theory. Eighteen model-dependent sampling strategies were developed from six subsampling methods using three estimators. The six subsampling methods were used to select trees from angle-count plots to estimate the relationship between cruiser-called and estimated tree value. Three subsampling methods used probability-based selection of trees and three methods used purposive-based selection of trees. Ratio, average ratio, and regression estimators were used with each method. The 18 strategies were tested using Monte Carlo simulation with 2000 samples at each of nine sample sizes in three test populations. The test populations were created by grouping angle-count plot data into mutually exclusive sets reflecting different stand characteristics. The sample sizes were n = 20,40, and 60 plots with m = n, 3n, and 5n subsampled trees. Individual tree value was estimated with regression equations that used variables closely related to the value of each species. The sampling strategies were evaluated for bias, sample variance, achieved subsample size, sampling cost, confidence interval coverage, and relative advantage against the current sampling method. The model-dependent subsampling methods using purposive selection of trees were more efficient than the current sampling method considering cost and variance. The purposive-based methods were biased up to about 5%; the probability-based methods were slightly less biased. The two most efficient methods were: i) purposive selection of trees with the highest estimated values in a plot; and ii) purposive selection of trees with estimated values within a given range to give a second-stage sample balanced on the auxiliary variable. The greatest efficiency was always achieved with one sample tree per plot. The current sampling method was unbiased for estimating value but required approximately twice as many plots to estimate value to the same level of precision as net volume.
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Lindroos, Ola. "Efficiency and safety in self-employed family forestry /." Umeå : Dept. of Forest Resource Management and Geomatics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2006. http://epsilon.slu.se/2006110.pdf.

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Li, Yaoxiang. "Modeling operational forestry problems in central Appalachian hardwood forests." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2005. https://etd.wvu.edu/etd/controller.jsp?moduleName=documentdata&jsp%5FetdId=3814.

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Kindstrand, Claes. "On trade-offs between timber and biodiversity /." Alnarp : Southern Swedish Forest Research Centre, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, 2008. http://epsilon.slu.se/10692539.pdf.

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Forsberg, Filip. "Naturum Vindelgransele : The Laws of the Forests." Thesis, KTH, Arkitektur, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-223550.

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This is a project about human relation to nature. How we have used the nature in our surroundings and created architecture that comes from the material access and practical needs of our daily lives and what I can do with this knowledge as an architect. It is a project striving to bring focus to the lost knowledge of forestry and history and skills of traditional woodcrafts. I asked myself, what can I learn from traditional building techniques to create architecture based on site specifcs and material logics? And how can architecture help us understand our surroundings and history?

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Sundermeier, Mark Alan. "TOURISM IN EXURBAN POSTINDUSTRIAL FORESTS IN APPALACHIA." The Ohio State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1292958854.

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Wang, Fei. "Design and implementation of Web-based GIS for forest fragmentation analysis." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2002. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2473.

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Thesis (M.A.)--West Virginia University, 2002.
Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 107 p. : ill. (some col.), maps (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 100-107).

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Liu, Shan. "Estimating the Potential Impact of Carbon Markets on North Carolina Forests." NCSU, 2009. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-11052009-234247/.

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Several studies have examined the theoretical aspects of determining the optimal carbon rotation. This paper explores the tradeoff between timber and net carbon sequestration in managing representative forest management types in North Carolina. Under conservative assumptions regarding the social benefits of carbon storage, optimal rotation periods are extended depending on the forest type, carbon price, interest rate, and emission penalty under consideration. Analysis shows when carbon price is low the extension of the joint timber-carbon rotation are similar among DOE, CCX, and VCS protocols; when carbon price is high, the joint rotation extends longer under DOE protocol than the other two protocols, especially in the lowland hardwood forest type. Results suggest that such joint strategies could be financially attractive. Sensitivity analysis is used to examine the effects of changes in financial parameters on landowner returns and optimal management. Under most assumptions, our findings indicate that including carbon sequestration in forest management increases returns but leads to only marginal changes in rotation length.

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Habteab, Sibhatu Adam. "An institutional approach to appropriation and provision in the commons : a case study in the Highlands of Eritrea." Thesis, Link to the online version, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10019/1206.

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Rydberg, Dan. "Urban forestry in Sweden : silvicultural aspects focusing on young forests /." Umeå : Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences (Sveriges lantbruksuniv.), 1998. http://epsilon.slu.se/avh/1998/91-576-5607-X.gif.

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Hörnsten, Lisa. "Outdoor recreation in Swedish forests : implications for society and forestry /." Uppsala : Swedish Univ. of Agricultural Sciences (Sveriges lantbruksuniv.), 2000. http://epsilon.slu.se/avh/2000/91-576-6053-0.pdf.

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Lovett, Jonathan C. "Classification and affinities of the Eastern Arc moist forests of Tanzania." Thesis, Bangor University, 1992. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.333691.

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Marques, Marco André Gonçalves Neves. "Cooperação na gestão florestal. O caso das Zonas de Intervenção florestal." Master's thesis, ISA/UTL, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10400.5/4143.

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Mestrado em Engenharia Florestal e dos Recursos Naturais - Instituto Superior de Agronomia
The Forest Intervention Zones (ZIF) appeared in 2005 as a proposal for the organization of the Portuguese non-industrial private forest owners. Today, these zones already have a national distribution and occupy a total of about 8% of the country’s mainland. This work discusses, firstly, the structural context of the Portuguese forest, which allows for the implementation of a management based on the cooperation of non-industrial forest owners: property structure and management objectives of the owners. Secondly, a diversity of types of cooperation that can be applied in this context is presented. Finally, this work demonstrates the territorial and socio demographic variety of the ZIF zones, concluding that the capacity of application of these management models must attend to this diversity

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Predmore, Stephen Andrew. "Presettlement vegetation and fire in Escambia and Covington counties, Alabama." Auburn, Ala., 2005. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/2005%20Summer/master's/PREDMORE_STEPHEN_32.pdf.

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Folegatti, Bruno da Silveira Smidt Mathew F. "The use of mechanical thinning treatments in management of small stands at the wildland urban interface." Auburn, Ala, 2004. http://repo.lib.auburn.edu/EtdRoot/2004/FALL/Forestry_and_Wildlife_Sciences/Thesis/FOLEGATTI_BRUNO_23.pdf.

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Stevenson, Aaron P. "Effects of prescribed burning in Missouri Ozark upland forests." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4931.

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on April 3, 2008) Includes bibliographical references.

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Hulting, Dustin J. "Regional patterns of presettlement forests in the Boston mountains of northwest Arkansas." Diss., Columbia, Mo. : University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10355/4504.

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Thesis (M.A.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2006.
The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file viewed on (February 8, 2007) Includes bibliographical references.

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Johansson, Johanna. "Constructing and contesting the legitimacy of private forest governance : The case of forest certification in Sweden." Doctoral thesis, Umeå universitet, Statsvetenskapliga institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-63948.

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In recent decades, political scientists have devoted substantial attention to the changing role of the state towards more inclusion of non-state actors in policymaking. This deliberative turn, or move towards governance, may signal inability to handle complex problems without cooperation with nonstate actors. On the other hand, governance is frequently credited with generating legitimate decision-making processes and results. In some instances, non-governmental actors have even taken the lead in policymaking. One archetype of such private governance, which has received significant scholarly attention, is forest certification. The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is frequently described as the most democratic and therefore legitimate forest certification organization since it grants equal voting rights to three stakeholder groups in the formulation of criteria for responsible forestry: environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs), social groups (indigenous peoples and labor organizations) and forest owners. However, in Sweden, a country often described as a role model in forest certification, the FSC has increasingly received critique for failing to generate legitimate processes and results, and recently three of five ENGOs have chosen to exit the FSC organization. Such processes of de-legitimation have received little attention in the forest certification literature. This thesis therefore provides a critical assessment of the legitimacy of forest certification in Sweden. Legitimacy is analyzed through concerned stakeholders’ perceptions of both procedural qualities (input legitimacy) and problem-solving capacity (output legitimacy). This study of legitimacy is combined with an assessment of the ability of certification to enhance environmental protection, defined as changes in both forest management practices and biophysical conditions. The thesis focuses not the least on legitimacy on the local level, which is where the actual implementation takes place. Today local studies of the legitimacy of forest certification are rare. Both quantitative and qualitative research methods are applied and a number of sources are analyzed: forest monitoring data, survey data, interviews with and documents produced by the participating stakeholders. Papers I and IV analyze the perceived legitimacy of forest certification, while Papers II and III analyze forest certification schemes’ ability to enhance environmental protection. The results show that a process of de-legitimation is occurring in Swedish forest certification. In particular, certification has lost legitimacy with ENGOs, which increasingly consider Swedish forest certification to lack both input legitimacy and output legitimacy. Moreover, although the Swedish FSC standard pays attention to reindeer husbandry, the results show that reindeer herders consider themselves to have limited power to influence long-term forest planning and management (low output legitimacy). The forest industry, on the other hand, increasingly grants legitimacy to forest certification due to customer demands, which are created not the least by pressures from international ENGOs and by EU regulation. The results also show that Swedish forest companies have paid more attention to their environmental practices after obtaining certification. However, to what extent these changes result in positive environmental impacts remains uncertain, especially since forests in Sweden grow slowly, which requires analyses over time. There are also measurement problems resulting from the low certification rate among small-scale forest owners and from the fact that certified small-scale owners tend to be more active in their management. These findings highlight that research on private forest governance should not neglect the role of the state, neither as a buyer nor as a regulator. These findings also suggest that further research should pay attention to power asymmetries in private governance and develop methods for better understanding and evaluating the certification schemes’ environmental and social impacts.

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