Current Perspectives on Sustainable Forest Management: North America

Siry, Jacek P.; Cubbage, Frederick W.; Potter, Kevin M.; McGinley, Kathleen

doi:10.1007/s40725-018-0079-2

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“…On average, the productivity of transport was 2.54 ± 0. 37 A more detailed look into the distribution of the net working time of the process felling showed that cutting was the most time-consuming working step (55.9% of the working time in case 1, 50.4% in case 2, and 51.4% in case 3; Table 4). The working step movement was significantly less time-consuming in case 1 (18.7%) compared to case 2 (27.8%) and case 3 (29.2%) ( Table 4).…”

Section: Economic Indicator Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In a modern and multifunctional forestry, in which society is asking for sustainable forestry and naturalistic forest management [7], FO should ideally be carried out in a sustainable manner and thus, support the concept of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) [18,37,38]. It aims to improve economic, but also environmental and social performances of forest processes, products and/or ecosystem services.…”

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Sustainability Assessment of Alternative Strip Clear Cutting Operations for Wood Chip Production in Renaturalization Management of Pine Stands

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In Mediterranean regions, afforested areas were planted to ensure the permanence of land cover, and to protect against erosion and to initiate the vegetation processes. For those purposes, pine species were mainly used; however, many of these stands, without silvicultural treatments for over fifty-sixty years, were in a poor state from physical and biological perspective, and therefore, clear-cutting on strips was conducted as silvicultural operation with the aim to eliminate 50% of the pine trees and to favor the affirmation of indigenous broadleaves seedlings. At the same time, the high and increasing demand of the forest based sector for wood biomass related to energy production, needs to be supplied. In a modern and multifunctional forestry, in which society is asking for sustainable forestry and naturalistic forest management, forestry operations should ideally be carried out in a sustainable manner, thus support the concept of sustainable forest management. All these aspects are also related to the innovation in forestry sector for an effective energetic sustainability. Three different forest wood chains were applied in pine plantations, all differing in the extraction system (animal, forestry-fitted farm tractor with winch, and double drum cable yarder). The method of the sustainability impact assessment was used in order to assess potential impacts of these alternative management options, and a set of 12 indicators covering economic, environmental, and social dimensions was analyzed. Further, to support decision makers in taking informed decisions, multi-criteria decision analysis was conducted. Decision makers gave weight towards the indicators natural tree regeneration and soil biological quality to support the achievement of the forest management goal. Results showed that first ranked alternative was case 2, in which extraction was conducted by a tractor with a winch. The main reason for that lies in the fact that this alternative had best performance for 80% of the analyzed criteria.

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Section: Economic Indicator Resultsmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Sustainability Assessment of Alternative Strip Clear Cutting Operations for Wood Chip Production in Renaturalization Management of Pine Stands

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“…Fifth, sustainable forest management has become a widely accepted paradigm across the globe in recent years ( Siry et al, 2005 , Siry et al, 2018 ), and its evolution required the development of conservation finance and ecosystem service payments as investors and the public seek to maintain economic growth and protect public values that have been historically difficult to monetize. Higher-level needs, including environmental protection, global climate change, carbon storage, aesthetics, and biodiversity have been increasingly recognized as important contributors to people's quality of life and survival with high demands to increase protection and provision of these services ( Cubbage et al, 2007 ).…”

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“…A study done by Hancock Timber Resource Group (HTRG) showed that historically annual percent of timberland asset value lost to natural disasters are quite low, at less than about 0.5% per year ( HTRG, 2013 ). Siry et al (2018) found that tree mortality in the United States from insect and diseases amounted to only about 0.3% of all land area in the country, and the brunt of this would occur on older stands on public lands or overmature stands on private lands. In the U.S. about seven to eight million acres of forest are burned by fires in recent years.…”

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Research trends: Forest investments as a financial asset class

Chudy

Cubbage

2020

Forest Policy and Economics

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This paper serves as an introduction to a Special Issue (SI) of the Journal of Forest Policy and Economics dedicated to forest investment and finance. The Special Issue stemmed from an International Forest Business Conference (IFBC2018) held in Poland on 6–8 June 2018. It includes papers based on speeches at that conference, as well as others on similar topics not presented at the conference. Topics addressed in this Special Issue include timberland investments, forest finance, intensively managed plantations, risk, uncertainty and decision-making, business structures and investment strategy, timber prices and forecasts, forestry contractors, and taxes. Details papers on these subjects follow in this Special Issue. Our finance research overview here provides a historical background and summary of forest investments and finance, focusing on forest equity investments made by institutional investors and in forestry real estate investment trusts, not including public lands or individual small private forest landowners. Forest assets as an investment class have expanded due to analytical advances, ownership changes, globalized markets, and sustainable forestry factors. Key components affecting forestry investments are expected asset returns, portfolio diversification, inflation hedge, and liquidity and natural risks. Topics detailed in this Special Issue include timberland investments, forest finance, intensively managed plantations, risk, uncertainty and decision-making, business structures and investment strategy, timber prices and forecasts, forestry contractors, and taxes. Finally, we identify knowledge gaps regarding forest investments for future research.

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“…The forest operations challenges are finding optimal management strategies to predict the environmental, economic, and social performance of various services, processes and productions. The concept of sustainable forestry is based on sustainable development, which refers to maintaining biodiversity, capacity, productivity, vitality and relevant economic, ecological and social operations impacts [7]. Furthermore, the authors of [8] discussed the challenges of forest operations and the proposed Sustainability Impact Assessment (SIA) framework that analyses the social, economic and environmental.…”

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Industry 4.0 towards Forestry 4.0: Fire Detection Use Case

Sahal

Alsamhi

Breslin

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Sensors

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Forestry 4.0 is inspired by the Industry 4.0 concept, which plays a vital role in the next industrial generation revolution. It is ushering in a new era for efficient and sustainable forest management. Environmental sustainability and climate change are related challenges to promote sustainable forest management of natural resources. Internet of Forest Things (IoFT) is an emerging technology that helps manage forest sustainability and protect forest from hazards via distributing smart devices for gathering data stream during monitoring and detecting fire. Stream processing is a well-known research area, and recently, it has gained a further significance due to the emergence of IoFT devices. Distributed stream processing platforms have emerged, e.g., Apache Flink, Storm, and Spark, etc. Querying windowing is the heart of any stream-processing platform which splits infinite data stream into chunks of finite data to execute a query. Dynamic query window-based processing can reduce the reporting time in case of missing and delayed events caused by data drift.In this paper, we present a novel dynamic mechanism to recommend the optimal window size and type based on the dynamic context of IoFT application. In particular, we designed a dynamic window selector for stream queries considering input stream data characteristics, application workload and resource constraints to recommend the optimal stream query window configuration. A research gap on the likelihood of adopting smart IoFT devices in environmental sustainability indicates a lack of empirical studies to pursue forest sustainability, i.e., sustainable forestry applications. So, we focus on forest fire management and detection as a use case of Forestry 4.0, one of the dynamic environmental management challenges, i.e., climate change, to deliver sustainable forestry goals. According to the dynamic window selector’s experimental results, end-to-end latency time for the reported fire alerts has been reduced by dynamical adaptation of window size with IoFT stream rate changes.

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Current Perspectives on Sustainable Forest Management: North America

Cited by 47 publications

References 12 publications

Sustainability Assessment of Alternative Strip Clear Cutting Operations for Wood Chip Production in Renaturalization Management of Pine Stands

Sustainability Assessment of Alternative Strip Clear Cutting Operations for Wood Chip Production in Renaturalization Management of Pine Stands

Research trends: Forest investments as a financial asset class

Industry 4.0 towards Forestry 4.0: Fire Detection Use Case

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