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Forest degradation --- Forest degradation --- Forest policy --- Control

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The growth in the human population has forced mankind to convert forested land into other land uses such as agricultural land, residential, urban, road construction and mining activities. The degradation of forest due to anthropogenic activities is significantly reducing forests in the world. These practices result in significant impacts on the forest structure, species composition and ecology, which will consequently reduce forest productivity and ecosystem functions. Due to deforestation, half of the earth's vegetation surface has reduced to one-third, resulting in large degraded areas. The significant reduction of the forest areas requires appropriate planning for sustainable management of the forests. This book reviews the extent and consequences of deforestation around the world. It highlights case studies of the causes of deforestation in Malaysia, Korea, India, Bangladesh, Columbia, Brazil and Mali. It is hoped that the book will provide insights on the importance of effective forest planning and management for the sustainable development of forest resources.

Forest degradation. --- Forests and forestry.

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La 4ème de couverture indique : "Parée du discours trompeur de l'énergie verte et des vertus de la biomasse, une entreprise massive et silencieuse de transformation de la sylve en matière première se déploie en France. Nous pensons la forêt comme le refuge de la liberté, nous la parcourons pour respirer le parfum de la nature, nous nous y réfugions des trépidations urbaines. Mais les abatteuses, les voies forestières démesurées, les centrales à biomasse sont en train de l'avaler,de la quadriller, de la standardiser.Cette dramatique industrialisation de la forêt, on ne l'avait pas encore racontée. Pendant des mois, des Landes au Morvan, de l'Auvergne aux Vosges, Gaspard d'Allens a couru les bois pour décrire et raconter le désastre en cours. Car la forêt subit maintenant la logique productiviste qui a ravagé l'agriculture, détruisant les emplois, dispersant les produits chimiques, gaspillant l'énergie, réduisant la biodiversité. Mais il est encore possible d'inverser le cours de la destruction. Des bûcherons réinventent leur métier, des forestiers promeuvent un usage doux de la forêt, des zad luttent contre les machines. L'espoir est là, l'alternative est vivante, les humains et les arbres peuvent se réconcilier."

Lumbering --- Forest degradation --- Forest conservation --- Forest policy

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Forest resources --- Tropical forests --- forest degradation --- Tropical zones

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Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation, conserving and enhancing forest carbon stocks, and sustainably managing forests (REDD+), has become a reference framework for national forest governance across many tropical and sub-tropical forest countries. These countries have used international funding to re-organize forest and conservation policy around the idea of mitigating climate change, including the development of carbon accounting protocols and national REDD+ strategies. In parallel, international conservation organizations have promoted small-scale pilot project activities, in order to capture the economic value of any resulting land-use emission reductions, mostly through voluntary carbon markets.This collection contributes with new evidence to the burgeoning research on REDD+. The first section of the collection includes eight articles that explore the politics of REDD+ design, which analyze how various governments have designed and rolled out their REDD+ strategies, and how and why a range of public and private actors become (or not) involved in such processes. These contributions explore which rationales, techniques, views and values are being contested and constructed in the design of REDD+ national strategies, which conflicts have emerged and why, or how coordination across competing actors and interests has been pursued. The second section encompasses six articles that examine the lessons of REDD+ early actions, which describe or quantify the effects of such interventions on local environments and participants' socio-economic status and cultural contexts. Finally, the third section includes five articles that explore the interplays between REDD+ and other land-use policy domains, which focus on the synergies and contradictions between the aims and policy programs conforming REDD+ national strategies and other land-use policies. Specifically, these contributions explore if REDD+ is able to improve forest sector regulations in host countries and to to align other development and land-use planning policies with REDD+ objectives and aspirations.

Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (Program)