An economic analysis of landowner propensity for woodlot management and harvesting in northwestern Saskatchewan

The recent development of new processing facilities in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan has created a long-term market for timber in the region. Although these processing facilities are currently supplied by crown timber reserves, increasing pressure on public forest resources from multiple users has caused processors to consider private woodlots as a supplemental source of fibre. A survey was undertaken to investigate conditions under which landowners may respond to the emerging demand by managing their timber resources for harvest and sale.Survey results indicate that, although virtually no management or harvesting has occurred in the past, approximately half of those interviewed would consider timber management and harvesting in the future. Logit analysis identified landowner characteristics that were related to landowners' willingness to consider forest management and harvest in the future and the likelihood that they would consider a timber contract. Significant characteristics of landowners in influencing the propensity to manage and harvest their woodlots included: the diversity of farm operations, the length of family tenure of the land, the number of ways respondents use their forest land, and area of forest owned. A preferred timber contract was identified as having: a duration of 1 to 5 years, young growth established at the end of the contract term, and payments for harvesting and management services made through a crop share arrangement. Key words: private forestry, forest economics, timber contracts, landowner characteristics, woodlot management

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Der Wald-Wild-Konflikt – was kann die Forstökonomie zur Lösung beitragen? (Essay)

Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Forstwesen ◽

10.3188/szf.2017.0181 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 168 (4) ◽

pp. 181-185

Author(s):

Marc Hanewinkel

Keyword(s):

Forest Economics ◽

Production Risk ◽

Damage Compensation ◽

Land Expectation Value ◽

Compensation Methods ◽

The Future ◽

Single Tree Selection ◽

Simplifying Assumptions ◽

Forest Enterprises

The forest-game conflict – how can forest economics contribute to solve it? (Essay) Core parameters of forest economics such as land expectation value or highest revenue show that damage caused by wild ungulates can critically influence the economic success of forest enterprises. When assessing and evaluating the damage in order to calculate damage compensation, methods are applied in Germany that look either into the past (“cost value methods”) or into the future (“expected value methods”). The manifold uncertainties related to this evaluation over long-term production periods are taken into account within a framework of conventions through strongly simplifying assumptions. Only lately, the increased production risk due to game-induced loss of species diversity is also considered. Additional aspects that should be taken into account in the future are the loss of climate-adapted species, the change of the insurance values of forest ecosystems and the impossibility of specific management systems such as single-tree selection forestry due to the influence of game. Because of high transaction costs when assessing the damage, financial compensation should only be the “ultimate measure” and a meditation between stakeholder groups with the goal to find a cooperative solution before the damage occurs should be preferred.

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V. Bryusov’s Letters to His Fiancée

Literary Fact ◽

10.22455/2541-8297-2021-20-8-30 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 8-30

Author(s):

Monika V. Orlova

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Full Text ◽

Terminally Ill ◽

The Past ◽

The Future ◽

State Of Mind ◽

First Time ◽

The Village ◽

The Relationship

The publication includes V.Ya. Bryusov’s letters to his fiancée I.M. Runt (1876 –1965) from June 9 to September 9, 1897. 11 correspondences, including the final telegram sent from Kursk, were written and sent from Aachen (Germany), Moscow and several Ukrainian localities. The letter 10 is accompanied by the full text of I.M. Runt’s only surviving letter to Bryusov, sent from Moscow to the village of Bolshye Sorochintsy and received by the poet a few months later at home. The relationship between the young people before the wedding were complicated. While the poet was preparing for the wedding in Moscow, he summed up the past contacts with “mes amantes”, and his state of mind was painful. Shortly before meeting his future wife, Bryusov broke up with the former governess of his family E.I. Pavlovskaya, who was terminally ill. A few days before the wedding he decided to go to say goodbye to Pavlovskaya to her homeland, Ukraine. In his letters to the future wife the poet tried to smooth out the tension of the situation, perhaps anticipating that he would be bounded with I.M. Runt 30 Литературный факт. 2021. № 2 (20) by a long-term relationship, where life and literature are closely interconnected. The letters are published for the first time.

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The Art and Science of Planning a Garden's Future

Sibbaldia: the International Journal of Botanic Garden Horticulture ◽

10.24823/sibbaldia.2017.232 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 3-7

Author(s):

Ed Ikin

Keyword(s):

Art And Science ◽

Third Way ◽

External Consultants ◽

The Past ◽

The Future

Successful long-term plans for gardens require creativity and objectivity and need to include the insight of the horticultural teams caring for them. Garden plans take different forms and there are rival schools of thought about the merits of using external consultants or authoring exclusively in house. This essay makes the case for a ‘third way’, blending the skills of internal and external teams, and shows how the past can inspire the future.

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Archaeology, climate, and global change in the Age of Humans

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ◽

10.1073/pnas.2003612117 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 117 (15) ◽

pp. 8250-8253 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Torben C. Rick ◽

Daniel H. Sandweiss

Keyword(s):

Interdisciplinary Research ◽

Social Economic ◽

Political Uncertainty ◽

Policy Makers ◽

The Past ◽

Cultural Systems ◽

Human Ecodynamics ◽

The Future ◽

Shed Light

We live in an age characterized by increasing environmental, social, economic, and political uncertainty. Human societies face significant challenges, ranging from climate change to food security, biodiversity declines and extinction, and political instability. In response, scientists, policy makers, and the general public are seeking new interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary approaches to evaluate and identify meaningful solutions to these global challenges. Underrecognized among these challenges is the disappearing record of past environmental change, which can be key to surviving the future. Historical sciences such as archaeology access the past to provide long-term perspectives on past human ecodynamics: the interaction between human social and cultural systems and climate and environment. Such studies shed light on how we arrived at the present day and help us search for sustainable trajectories toward the future. Here, we highlight contributions by archaeology—the study of the human past—to interdisciplinary research programs designed to evaluate current social and environmental challenges and contribute to solutions for the future. The past is a multimillennial experiment in human ecodynamics, and, together with our transdisciplinary colleagues, archaeology is well positioned to uncover the lessons of that experiment.

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The impact of adopting the euro on the Croatian economy

Notitia ◽

10.32676/n.5.1.7 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 73-89

Author(s):

Zlatko Čehulić ◽

Rajka Hrbić

Keyword(s):

Positive Influence ◽

European Countries ◽

Economic Indicators ◽

The Past ◽

The Future ◽

Term Basis ◽

The One ◽

The Impact

In this paper the impact of adopting the euro in Croatia is analysed using experiences of other countries which have passed through this process in the last decade and which are comparable with Croatia in many aspects. The process of adopting a currency different from the one that has been used for more than twenty years presents a very important economic question for each country. In this period preceding to adopting the euro, there is an opportunity to analyse this process in the countries which went through it in the past. The result of this paper shows the impacts of adopting the euro in the European countries. The selected countries, which are adequate for analysing the effects of adopting the euro, are: Portugal, Ireland, Greece, Spain, Slovenia, Slovakia, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia. These countries have been selected for different reasons. The majority of these countries have some similarities with Croatia, which are shown in this paper via relevant economic indicators. These results are significant for Croatia and show a positive influence on the Croatian market on a long-term basis. This paper is relevant and has a practical basis both for Croatia and other countries which will go through this process in the future.

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A leasehold tenure system for publicly owned forest land

The Forestry Chronicle ◽

10.5558/tfc86597-5 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 86 (5) ◽

pp. 597-600

Author(s):

Tony Rotherham

Keyword(s):

Land Tenure ◽

Forest Products ◽

Contract Law ◽

Land Ownership ◽

Forest Products Industry ◽

Forest Land ◽

New Approach ◽

The Past ◽

Tenure System

The forest products industry is in a period of profound transition. Several provinces are reviewing forest land tenure systems. Perhaps a new approach can be tried, but we must not forget the lessons of the past 30 years during which the delivery of forest management has improved based on clear lines of responsibility and accountability. A leasehold tenure system based on contract law providing security of tenure and designed to accommodate both SFM Certification and Forest Carbon Projects might be worth consideration. Key words: forest land ownership, tenure, leasehold, long-term planning, forest crop planning

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To Utopia and Back: A Cycle in the History of the Chinese Communist Party

The China Quarterly ◽

10.1017/s0305741000028940 ◽

1981 ◽

Vol 87 ◽

pp. 407-439 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Stuart R. Schram

Keyword(s):

Communist Party ◽

Chinese Communist Party ◽

The Past ◽

Look Back ◽

The Future ◽

History Of ◽

The Chinese Communist Party ◽

Sixtieth Anniversary

On 1 July 1981 the Chinese Communist Party celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of its foundation. To mark this occasion, the Party itself issued a statement summing up the experience of recent decades. It seems an appropriate time for outsiders as well to look back over the history of the past 60 years, in the hope of grasping long-term tendencies which may continue to influence events in the future.

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Social Policy in the Czech “Republic”: The Past and the Future of Reforms

East European Politics and Societies and Cultures ◽

10.1177/0888325408315830 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 22 (3) ◽

pp. 496-517 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Jiří Večerník

Keyword(s):

Czech Republic ◽

Work Motivation ◽

Pension System ◽

The Political ◽

The Czech Republic ◽

The Past ◽

The Future ◽

The Right ◽

Political Scene

The article describes the development of Czech policy after 1989 and the controversies it caused. It first looks at the ambiguous nature of the communist welfare state and then proceeds to outline the theoretical alternatives. After early and energetic changes in the system, stagnation set in around the mid-1990s. Despite some problems, the current performance of the system is satisfactory, but its outlook in terms of long-term efficiency is unsatisfactory, as it will generate a rising debt into the future. In particular, the disadvantaged situation for families, the insufficient work motivation, and the frozen pension system are all causes for concern. The political shift to the right after 2006 ushered in reform measures and new reform plans. While reforms are necessary, their feasibility is uncertain owing to the fragility of the Czech political scene.

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