Policies For Sustainably Managing Canada S Forests

With more than three quarters of Canada's forests under provincial control, provincial forest policies are crucial for encouraging the sustainable management of the nation's forests. Forest tenures, which allow private companies to manage public forest resources, are the key policy tool that provinces use to balance the requirements of sustainable management with the economic concerns of the forest industry. By offering an up-to-date comparative examination of contemporary provincial forestry policies, this book provides forest managers, policy-makers, scholars, and students with the information and concepts to critically examine Canada’s complex forest tenure systems. The authors look at tenure, stumpage fees, and other forest practices to assess how well different provincial schemes achieve the goals of sustainable forest management. They identify a number of essential policy attributes that could be used to guide tenure reform, consider potential barriers that could prevent meaningful change, and offer much-needed practical guidance on overcoming these obstacles.

Presenting a summary of the development in boreal forest management, this book provides a progressive vision for some of the world's northern forests. It includes a selection of chapters based on the research conducted by the Sustainable Forest Management Network across Canada. It includes a number of case histories.

This document provides a brief overview of the importance of forests to Canada's economy, environment and communities including Aboriginal peoples. Canada's efforts in sustaining its forests are described, and key national, provincial and local-level initiatives are highlighted, including the development of criteria and indicators for defining Canada's progress in the sustainable management of forests.

This work proposes that new economic theory, rather than a new public policy based on old theory, is needed to guide humanity toward sustainability. The book includes the ideas from old as well as new institutional economics, discussed in detail by leading experts in the field. This book follows a companion work, 'Economics, Sustainability, and Natural Resources: Economics of Sustainable Forest Management', volume 1 of the series.

At a series of public forums sponsored by the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers in 1991, Canadians who work in the forest sector and those who enjoy the forests' physical, cultural, and recreational values provided a fresh statement of their vision for Canada's forests in the 1990s. The new vision that emerged from those public forums is captured in this document, which updates the National Forest Sector Strategy of 1987.

Arguing that the complexity of policy-making in the forest sector has led many analysts to focus exclusively on specific sectoral activities or jurisdictions, this collection of essays offers a simplifying framework of analysis.

Forests are essential to the long-term well-being of Canada's communities, economy, and environment. This document presents a Canadian approach to criteria and indicators on sustainable forest management. Topics covered are: conservation of biological diversity; maintenance and enhancement of forest ecosystem condition and productivity; conservation of soil and water resources; forest ecosystem contributions to global ecological cycles; multiple benefits to society; and, accepting society's responsibility for sustainable development.