paths and pitfalls of decentralization for sustainable forest management experiences of the asia pacific region
Review of the challenges and opportunities for rural infrastructure and agroindustries development in the Asia Pacific Region. pdf
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06/07/2014, 22:20
... conserve and market, also to purchase food THE SITUATION IN THE ASIA AND PACIFIC REGION The Asia and the Pacific Region for FAO consists of forty six (46) member countries, five (5) of which ... and Postharvest Officer of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok, Thailand These are indicators of severe land scarcity, ... Zealand SUBTOTAL ASIA- PACIFIC* REST OF WORLD WORLD * data for forests and woodland, from Global Forest Resources Assessment of 2005, other data from 2003 Source: Selected Indicators of Food and...
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Remote Sensing for Sustainable Forest Management - Chapter 1 potx
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11/08/2014, 07:20
... charting the future of forest management and the fate of the world’s remaining forests The future of forest management remains unclear What will be the end result of changing values in society and the ... Sustainable Forest Management Definition of Sustainable Forest Management Forestry in Crisis Ecosystem Management Forest Stands and Ecosystems Achieving Ecologically Sustainable Forest Management ... responsibility in service of the generation of new knowledge about the current state of the forest and the influences of management and natural processes to further the goal of forest sustainability...
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Remote Sensing for Sustainable Forest Management - Chapter 2 docx
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11/08/2014, 07:20
... sensing studies of forests, but studies of forest management, forest growth, forest disturbance, and forest change — begin with statements such as these: “A forest type is an area of forest which ... planned and controlled way Ensuring the regeneration of wastelands and degraded forests, the integration of trees into the farming landscape, and the promotion of agroforestry While there may ... operate — understanding the standards and accuracy issues, the complexity and utility of GIS, the role of sampling forests and the use of geostatistics, and the role and function of ecosystem process...
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Remote Sensing for Sustainable Forest Management - Chapter 3 potx
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11/08/2014, 07:20
... 1968; Kreig, 1970) Use of one type of key or another might depend on the existing state of knowledge for forests in the area, as well as the heterogeneity of the landscape Standard mapping photography ... with regions of interest in forestry remote sensing Although many sensors operate in different regions of the spectrum and provide data useful in forestry applications, the main regions of interest ... as the position of the viewer changes with respect to the source of light Forests, in particular, are strongly directional in their reflectance; it is not just the geometry of the sensor and the...
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Remote Sensing for Sustainable Forest Management - Chapter 4 pps
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11/08/2014, 07:20
... species and structural characteristics of boreal forest stands were possible (Sandmeier and Deering, 1999) Off-nadir viewing improved the forest information content and the performance of several ... into the role and applications of remote sensing in forest management, forest science, and forest operations In essence, it should be possible for those interested in using remote sensing for sustainable ... components: The optical model of a needle The optical model of a shoot ©2001 CRC Press LLC The optical model of a tree crown The optical model of forest community (a forest stand) The Li-Strahler...
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Remote Sensing for Sustainable Forest Management - Chapter potx
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11/08/2014, 07:20
... in which the species was inappropriate for the site SPATIAL PATTERN MODELING Sustainable forest management recognizes the importance of spatial forest structure, defined as the mosaic of forest ... to sustainable forest management is premature and, because of the many known and unknown factors influencing the development and applications of GIS, would likely be unconvincing The evolution of ... dependent on the definition of a patch and the mosaic, but also on the consistency of the techniques used to identify and map patches using the specified elements and the homogeneity of other attributes...
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Remote Sensing for Sustainable Forest Management - Chapter 6 ppt
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11/08/2014, 07:20
... roughly, forest covertypes, forest ecosystems, and forest stands — that can be managed uniformly (Bailey et al., 1978) The expectation in forestry is that the smallest landscape units, forests stands, ... sustainable forest management for a variety of different applications The forest stand maps of particular interest in forest management are an example of a mixed approach — typically, parametric and landscape ... (nonflooded alluvial plains forest, lowland seasonally flooded forest, palm forest, and swamp forest) were mapped accurately using Landsat TM imagery of the Chimanes Forest When the categories remained...
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Remote Sensing for Sustainable Forest Management - Chapter 7 pps
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11/08/2014, 07:20
... of the absence of gaps, and the level of reflected radiation would therefore again be relatively high In the older stands the tree density was low because of the removal of trees by thinning The ... of error in the estimates Working in a British Columbia forest, Gemmell (1995) noted that the utility of the TM data to predict volume was dependent on: The homogeneity of the forest stand, The ... value of 0.91 in 22 plots in Oregon stands of young, mature and old-growth conifer forests The lidar quantified the volume of filled and empty space in the canopy and could distinguish euphotic and...
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Remote Sensing for Sustainable Forest Management - Chapter 8 pptx
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11/08/2014, 07:20
... changed in these two age classes of the forest Clearly, the major differences in the forest classes were directly attributable to the increased area of forest cutblocks in the forest stands, which ... variability of the defoliation, the speed and height of the aircraft, and the scale of the map used to record the information Such sketch maps have met a variety of needs in the forest community; ... sustainable forms of forestry in the U.K Forest management must take into account the larger landscape in which forest stands and ecosystems occur; it is the concern with aggregated effects that is of...
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Remote Sensing for Sustainable Forest Management - Chapter 9 (end) pptx
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11/08/2014, 07:20
... and other activities, Cost, productivity, and efficiency of forest management All forest management is dependent on reliable sources of information of forest conditions, forest values, and forest ... heterogeneous, forest stands For most of the past century, these forest stands and the larger forest ecosystems and landcover patterns of which they are a part have been recognized, mapped, and described ... as a critical component of the forestry information system of the future — remote sensing of forest conditions and forest changes The forest inventory will contain information related at different...
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Báo cáo y học: "Promise and pitfalls of the Immunochip" docx
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12/08/2014, 15:22
... At least part of the answer to these problems lies in the development of custom genotyping chips such as the Immunochip designed for immunogenetics studies, the Metabochip designed for studying ... European populations and will therefore be less informative for other ethnic groups, although the chip will still be informative particularly where disease-associated variants and haplotypes are ... the power of the initial GWAS studies for its marker selection The chip, particularly for diseases where fewer cases have had GWAS performed, will therefore miss residual associated loci The Immunochip...
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Báo cáo y học: "Identification and characterization of the carboxy-terminal region of Sip-1, a novel autoantigen in Behçet''''s disease" docx
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09/08/2014, 08:22
... conducted the ELISA experiments and participated in the design of the study and analysis of the data FC participated in the design of the study and in the analysis of data and helped to draft the manuscript ... participated in the design and revision of the study AS participated in the analysis and interpretation of data and helped to draft the manuscript RR participated in the design of the study and in the revision ... the revision of the manuscript EP participated in analysis of data GV participated in the design of the study and in the revision of the manuscript MS conducted the experiments on endothelial cell...
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International Capital Flows and Boom-Bust Cycles in the Asia Pacific Region +
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24/10/2012, 09:27
... detailed analysis of stylized facts of business cycles in Asia and the G-7 countries 2.46 in more developed countries in the region: Japan, Australia and New Zealand On the other hand, less developed ... that the effects of CAP shocks on CUR and RGDP are invariant to the ordering between CUR and RGDP On the other hand, capital flows might affect CUR and RGDP within a quarter, and the CUR and RGDP ... Stylized Facts of Business Cycles In this section, we document the main characteristics of business cycles of the selected countries in the Asia Pacific region. 8 We use the data from the International...
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Tài liệu DEVELOPMENTS KEY ECONOMIC AND PROSPECTS IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION 2008 pdf
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21/02/2014, 01:20
... ESCAP is the regional development arm of the United Nations and serves as the main economic and social development centre for the United Nations in Asia and the Pacific Its mandate is to ... for further information The shaded areas of the map indicate ESCAP members and associate members This publication was prepared by the Poverty and Development Division of ESCAP For further information ... Figure Rates of economic growth of developing and developed economies in the ESCAP region, 2006-2007 Developing economies of the region East and North-East Asia North and Central Asia South and South-West...
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Gender-based Violence and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights: Looking at the Health Sector Response in the Asia-Pacific Region doc
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05/03/2014, 17:20
... women’s awareness of realities and develop their capabilities for self-actualisation, strengthening of the participation of rural women in development efforts and for the advocacy of their rights, ... maternal mortality ratio and the infant mortality rate Pacific Islands Forum Secretariat (2009) Final communiqué of 40th Pacific Islands Forum, Cairns, Fortieth Pacific Islands Forum, Cairns, Australia ... ASEAN and the Pacific Islands Forum) develop mechanisms to track progress on GBV and SRHR; and • NGOs act as watchdogs and advocate for fulfilling the Cairo agenda and MDG (a & b) targets The last...
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Institutions of the asia pacific
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11/06/2016, 21:43
... primarily on the key nations of East Asia like China, Japan and the ASEAN countries on the one hand, and the U.S.A and the other “Anglo-American” economies on the other, the discussion throughout the ... the region itself, whether that is East Asia or the Asia- Pacific 1 History and identity in the Asia- Pacific The boundaries and constituent parts of the Asia- Pacific” region are uncertain and contested ... about the history of both East Asia and the wider Asia- Pacific The continuing impact of historical forces underlies different perceptions of regional identity and the prospects for intra-regional...
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Preparation and characterization of the PVDF-based composite membrane for direct methanol fuel cells
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05/09/2013, 16:11
... polymerization of styrene and the blending of PS and SPS polymers have affected the surface structure of the PVDF membrane obviously The cross-section morphologies of the PVDF membrane, the PVDF-PS ... membrane The hydrophobic property of PS polymer promoted the formation of these polymer aggregates As can be seen, the thermally induced polymerization of styrene, as well as the blending of PS and ... under the outer skin layer of the membranes, and the sponge-like structures appear in the inner part of the membranes As shown in Figure 4e, many big aggregates appear in the middle part of the...
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Tài liệu Instructions for Form 5405 (Rev. December 2011) First-Time Homebuyer Credit and Repayment of the Credit pdf
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15/02/2014, 14:20
... elements of the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marine Corps, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Department of the Treasury, the Department of Energy, and the Coast Guard • The Bureau of Intelligence ... Intelligence and Research of the Department of State • Any of the elements of the Department of Homeland Security concerned with the analyses of foreign intelligence information Line E Check the “Yes” ... the Senior Foreign Service • A Foreign Service officer • Part of the Foreign Service personnel Employee of the intelligence community For purposes of the credit, you are an employee of the intelligence...
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Tài liệu FSC Annual Surveillance of SCS for 2006: Forest Management Audit to Michigan Department of Natural Resources, USA (SCS-FM/COC-090N) ppt
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17/02/2014, 21:20
... managed by the DNR within the State Forest System are largely noncontiguous tracts of forest that are scattered throughout the landscapes of the Northern Lower Peninsula of Michigan and all of Upper ... Department of Natural Resources (MI DNR) is responsible for the management of the Michigan state forestlands on an area of 1.6 Mio (about 21% of the state’s timberland) DNR also provides guidance and ... Coordinator, and Penney Melchoir, Acting Assistant Chief of the Wildlife Division from the state office in Lansing Many other DNR employees from Forest Management Units (FMU) and regional and state offices...
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Payments For Environmental Services In Vietnam: Assessing An Economic Approach To Sustainable Forest Management docx
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05/03/2014, 11:22
... manage forest and forest land The benefit-sharing policies cover the three main types of forest and forest land Brief details of these regulations and obligations are as follows: Special use forest: ... households and individuals can be owners of these forest categories, albeit with restricted forest use rights 3.2.2 Forest and Forest land Contracts and Allocation State forest enterprises, and the management ... use forests and protection forests are under the unified management of the state The following management mechanisms are used for the different forest classifications: Special use forests: A management...
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