Forest governance challenges the attainment of sustainable forest management, where mutual interaction between governance institutions and arrangements will further define its successes and failures (Broekhoven et. al, 2012). This module presents the importance, concepts, and principles of “good forest governance”, and the realities on the ground by analyzing the dynamics that exist between the various forest governance institutions. It also showcases the different forest governance initiatives at the national and global levels, and assesses their contributions in advancing sustainable forest management.
The objectives of this course are to introduce you to the theory and practice of: (a) forest restoration and (b) forest plantation development. You need to understand how forests regenerate and develop through stages of maturity, including the emergence of a range of crown classes in a stand. The objectives of this course include revising the ecosystem paradigm and the key ecosystem processes of nutrient cycling and forest productivity, because trees in restored forests and plantations are limited by access to light, water and nutrients. Relevant components• Global perspective of ecosystem ecology and the ecosystem paradigm• Forest productivity and nutrient cyclesAfter taking this course you should be able to:• Define and describe the main processes of forest functioning including forest carbon and nutrient cycles• Recognize and describe properties of degraded forests and principles of forest restoration• Explain restoration strategies and describe methods to assess success of restoration activities • Describe in detail all stages in the development of a forest plantation enterprise and give examples from existing plantation projects in the Asia-Pacific region.
The objective of this course is to improve the capacity of professional and semi-professional foresters to apply the concept of Sustainable Use of Forest Ecosystem Services within the overall concept of Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) in the Asia-pacific region by using an innovative pedagogical method through the combination of web-based learning in the areas of payments for ecosystem services (PES), economic valuation of forest ecosystem services; concept and theory of utility and welfare economics; types of economic value, and forest resource accounting.
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