In Nepal, based on land ownership, there are two categories of forests: national and private. The objectives of forest management vary, depending on type of products and services one wishes to obtain. In Nepal, forests are being managed with two primary objectives: (i) to obtain forest products,...

Changing environmental conditions that result from changes in the Earth's climate system have a multifaceted impact on both forest ecosystems and forestry. Taking into account the causes of the observed climate changes, they will also influence the silvicultural practices in order to realize the...

Forests and trees have social, ecological and economic importance to humankind. It is high time to manage worlds' forests sustainably to ensure supply of forest based goods and services and reduce the adverse impacts of climate change. This paper highlights the history and current status of forest...

This special issue on silviculture contains 18 selected papers from the workshop and covers a broad spectrum of forest management from the nursery and plantation management to the management of natural forest under various silvicultural system and forest management regimes in Nepal.

This paper explains what we term the 'silvo-institutional model' for a more productive, sustainable and equitable management of community forests in Nepal. The paper draws on four years of action research in six research sites of Kavre and Lamjung districts, complemented by the review of ...

Forest management has evolved from a typically productive approach, which evaluates silvicultural techniques and planning methods according to wood production levels, to the current approach where sustainability becomes the aim and social and environmental variables are fundamental. Various...

Expectations of what forests and woodlands should provide vary among locations, stakeholder groups, and over time. Developing multifunctional forests requires understanding of the dynamic roles of traditions and cultural legacies in social-ecological systems at multiple levels and scales....

The objective of this study was to examine existing knowledge on forest products development and to promote sustainable forest management in Ethiopia. Furthermore, the paper aimed to assess the development and status of Ethiopia's forest products industry in terms of resource base, manufacturing...

Vocational education has been changing with the times. We worked on restructuring educational contents about management of the subject "Forest management" in vocational high schools in line with revised Education Ministry Guidelines (2017). Based on analysis of previous educational reforms and...

Joint forest management (JFM) in India is an initiative where people's participation in forest management and resource utilization has been undertaken for last 3 decades. The policy frameworks laid in the late 1980s and the follow ups in policy matters were aimed at paving way for a mutual...