[ANFES] 2013-06-09 NRMI: This Issue: Holistic Resource Management and Some Other Good Things

2013-06-09 NRMI: NATURAL RESOURCE MONITORING ITEMS OF INTEREST

This Issue: Holistic Resource Management and Some Other Good Things

 BUT FIRST, WON’T YOU PLEASE HELP? Paris polyphylla (Satuwa) in private and community forests. Sujan Parajuli writes, “I am a student of BSc. Forestry currently in my final year. I have decided to conduct a project report and research on above mentioned subject…. I am writing this message because I want help in this aspect. If anyone has carried out research on satuwa and its cultivation practice they can contact me. I have a number of questions to ask regarding this topic .Maybe your answer become greatest help from me. I am more interested in its cultivation and commercialization through farming in private and community forests land.” You may reach Sujan at sujan_punk123@yahoo.com.

HOLISTIC RESOURCE MANAGEMENT – In January there was a dialogue between two list members regarding holistic resource management. The subject caught my attention. Here are some sites that may interest you as well.

A pioneering forest management plan In the Columbia Highlands of northeastern Washington

Bingham, Sam. 2000? The Holistic Management Model: Enabling Scientists to Grasp Complexity as Well as Villagers Do. 14 p.

Brekk, Lars Peder. 2010. FOREST EUROPE (MCPFE) – a holistic approach to sustainable forest management

Buck, Michael G. 1992. Holistic forest and wildlife management in Hawaii -- is it possible?.  In: Proceedings on the session on tropical forestry for people of the Pacific, XVII Pacific Science Congress; May 27-28. Gen. Tech. Rep. PSW-129. 15-16.

Burgess, Jeff. n.d. Holistic Resource Management (HRM): Panacea or Snake Oil?

Evans, Zander 2000? What is Ecological Forestry? 9 p.

Everett, Mike. 2008? Holistic Management Framework.

Fedkiw, John. 1998. New ideas for teaching natural resource management: From the long-term realities of national forest management. Natural Resources and Environmental Issues. Vol. 7. Article 11. 8 p.

Holistic Resource Management of Fire, Livestock, and Oaks

Krug, Joachim et al. 2012. Revaluing unmanaged forests for climate change mitigation. Carbon Balance and Management.

Martinez, Dennis.2003? Holistic Restoration Forestry - Forested Landscapes of Southwestern Oregon and Northern California. 65 p.

Maynarad, Bruce.1999, A Natural Fit Holistic Resource Management and No Kill Cropping. 10 p.

Northern Rockies Holistic Management Survey Results

Ontario’s Forests – Forest Management Guides.

Paulu, Christine, M.S. 2009. Forest Habitat Improvement Planning on the Blackfoot-Clearwater Wildlife Management Area: A Case Study in Multiple-Criteria Decision Analysis.Thesis. 261 p.

Robledo, Carmenza; Tobón, Patricia. 2007. Payments for environmental services as a piece in building an alternative for financing sustainable forest management in San Nicolás, Colombia. A participatory and holistic approach in forestry. 23 p.

Sample, V. Alaric et al. 2006. Advancing Sustainable Forest Management in the United States. Pinchot Institute for Conservation. 146 p.

Savory, Allan. 1983. The Savory Grazing Method or Holistic Resource Management. Rangelands 5(4): 155-159.

Savory, Allan. 1988. Holistic resource management, Volume 1. 564 p. Book listing.

Savory, Allan; Butterfield Jody. N.d. Holistic management – A framework for decision making. Several books listed here.

Schmidt, Robert A. n.d. Forest Management in the Interface: Forest Health. FOR 178. 5 p.

Seth?. 2013. Reversing Global Warming while Meeting Human Needs by Restoring Grassland Ecosystems with Holistic Management. Reading List & Videos. From Barry Carter, Appeal List

Sindelar, Brian W. et al. 1995. Holistic Resource Management: An approach to sustainable agriculture on Montana's Great Plains. Journal of Soil and Water Conservation 50(1): 45-49. Excerpt.

Sist, Plinio et al. 2008. Moving beyond reduced-impact logging towards a more holistic management of tropical forests. Forest Ecology and Management 256 (2008) vii–ix

Stein, Taylor V. et al. 2010. A Holistic Approach to Managing the Societal Impacts for a National Forest in the Wildland-Urban Interface. Journal of Forestry.April/May: 126-131.

Welfare Ranching: The Subsidized Destruction of the American West. From Doug Heiken, Appeal List

Whole Farm Planning with Holistic Management

Willow-Witt Ranch. 2012. Holistic Forest Management

Wuerthner, George. N.d. The Donut Diet - The Too-Good-to-Be-True Claims of Holistic Management. 4 p. From Doug Heiken, Appeal List

 SOME OTHER PUBLICATIONS/URLS OF INTEREST

Eisenbeiss, Henri. 2011. The potential of unmanned aerial vehicles for mapping. 11 p.

European Union. 2010. Specific guide for Life Cycle Inventory data sets. First edition March 2010. Publications Office of the European Union, International Reference Life Cycle Data System (ILCD) Handbook, EUR EN, 142 p.

Franke, U., et al. 2012. Aerial ungulate surveys with a combination of infrared and high-resolution natural colour images. Anim. Biodivers. Conserv. 35(2):285-293.

Gopal, B. 2013. Future of wetlands in tropical and subtropical Asia, especially in the face of climate change. Aquat. Sci. 75(1):39-61. Abstract.

Gray, T.N.E., et al.. 2012. Establishing a monitoring baseline for threatened large ungulates in eastern Cambodia. Wildlife Biol. 18(4):406-413. Abstract.

Hansen, A.L.S.,et al.. 2012. Digital surveillance: a novel approach to monitoring the illegal wildlife trade. PLoS ONE 7(12):e51156.

Kant, Promode; Appanah, Simmathiri. 2013. Guidelines for formulating national forest financing strategies. FAO RAP PUBLICATION 2013/01

Kumar, A.N.A., et al. 2012. Sandalwood: history, uses, present status and the future. Curr. Sci. 103(12):1408-1416

Li, J.S., et al. 2013. Global priority conservation areas in the face of 21st century climate change. PLoS ONE 8(1):e54839

Lindenmayer, D.B., et al. 2012. A major shift to the retention approach for forestry can help resolve some global forest sustainability issues. Conserv. Lett. 5(6):421-431. Abstract.

Lishawa, S.C., et al. 2013. Reconstructing plant invasions using historical aerial imagery and pollen core analysis: Typha in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Divers. Distrib. 19(1):14-28. Abstract

Magnussen, S., et al. 2005. Adaptive cluster sampling for estimation of deforestation rates. European Journal of Forest Research 124(3): 207-220.

Mason, Charles F 2013. The Economics of Eco-Labeling: Theory and Empirical Implications. International Review of Environmental and Resource Economics 6(4). Abstract. From Tanya Capawana, Now Publishers.

Menz, M.H.M., et al. 2013. Hurdles and opportunities for landscape-scale restoration. Science 339(6119):526-527

Mitchell, S.A. 2013. The status of wetlands, threats and the predicted effect of global climate change: the situation in Sub-Saharan Africa. Aquat. Sci. 75(1):95-112. Page 1.

Williamson, Ian et al. 2013? Land Administration for Sustainable Development e-Book. ESRI. From Artur Gil, Applied GIS RS List.

KEEPING UP-TO-DATE – PRODUCTS, NEWSLETTERS, EMAIL LISTS, JOURNALS. See also http://botany.si.edu/puhttps://www.createspace.com/3489254bs/bcn/links.cfm, http://scholar.google.com/, and Directory of Open Access Journals. http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=findJournals.

BCN - Biological Conservation Newsletter for June 2013 - Issue No. 342 now at http://botany.si.edu/pubs/bcn/issue/latest.htm

Forestry Notes – The latest issue from the National Association of Conservation Districts is now available at http://www.nacdnet.org/resources/forestry/forestrynetwork

INFOSYLVA – Issue No. 10/2013 is now available at http://foris.fao.org/preview/37478-08d14ffea309b1088904a765c147d85bb.pdf

Stewardship Contracting - http://rlch.org/content/stewardship-contracting. From Susan Jane Brown, Appeal List.

SDI Regional Newsletters - The SDI Regional Newsletters for June 2013 are now posted on the Global Spatial Data Infrastructure (GSDI) home page at http://www.gsdi.org. You may also download them directly as follows:

SDI-Latin America and Caribbean Newsletter - http://portal.gsdi.org/files/?artifact_id=1275 (Spanish); http://portal.gsdi.org/files/?artifact_id=1274 (English). Portuguese translations of the newsletter are posted as they arrive and may be downloaded at http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters.php

SDI-Africa Newsletter - http://portal.gsdi.org/files/?artifact_id=1273 (English)

SDI-Asia Pacific Newsletter - http://portal.gsdi.org/files/?artifact_id=1272 (English). Chinese translations of the newsletter are posted as they arrive and may be downloaded at http://www.gsdi.org/newsletters.php

WORKING SMARTER - WORKSHOPS, MEETINGS, EVENTS, ETC. – See also: http://www.gfis.net, http://www.iufro.org/events/calendar/ and http://www.iufro.org/discover/noticeboard/.

MOVING AHEAD – OPPORTUNITIES – See also: Scholarships-Positions, Forestry, Arboriculture, Agriculture, Agronomy & Natural Resource Management Jobs at http://www.earthworks-jobs.com/forest.htm, Riley Guide to Agriculture, Forestry, & Farming Jobs http://www.rileyguide.com/agric.html, Finding Your Dream Job in Natural Resources http://www.cyber-sierra.com/nrjobs/, http://www.nature.com/naturejobs/index.html The Job Seekers Guide for International and Environmental Careers http://timresch.net/ejobs/index.htm and Scholarship Listing http://www.scholarshiplisting.com/.

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