Cases
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Empowering communities through forestry: Community-based enterprise development in the Gambia
14 June 2014
14 June 2014
Empowering local communities with the technical skills and resources necessary to achieve a regular income is vital when addressing many of the problems that afflict developing countries. The market analysis and development (MA&D) approach provides the crucial structures that are necessary to achieve this empowerment through sustainable forest management and...
Empowering forest communities in The Gambia
05 December 2019
05 December 2019
A nationwide programme to transfer government-owned forest land to local communities is changing lives in The Gambia while promoting the sustainable management of its forests. As communities manage forest affairs and benefit from the proceeds from forest resources, more forest-friendly livelihoods such as beekeeping and soap making are boosting incomes...
Environmental and social reconstruction in Haiti: watershed management in Léogâne and PetitGoâve following the 2010 earthquake
29 October 2015
29 October 2015
Reforestation projects have not only contributed to restoration of the environment and better resilience following the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, but have also created employment.
The impact of the activities, which were carried out over a relatively short period of
time (2010-2013), was felt in the cities of Léogâne and Petit-Goâve. The...
The principal objective of this case study is to document the progress of regeneration in two forest plots harvested under different schemes in 1996, four years prior to this investigation. A secondary objective is to describe the recent evolution of environmentally sound forest harvesting as practiced by Precious Woods Amazon...
The study was carried out in the tropical natural forest of the Amazon near Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. Precious Woods Company Ltd. initiated the project to demonstrate the economic viability of sustainable forest management integrated with a wood-processing industry. This, as an alternative to the timber exploitation usually carried out in...
This study, initiated by FAO, meets the need to document and establish data on environmentally friendly forest engineering practices. The marked superiority of sophisticated construction equipment and advanced techniques in forest road construction should encourage the adoption of such practices to provide access to the forests by roads in mountainous...
Ergonomics in Chilean forestry
06 February 2014
06 February 2014
Wood production and exportation has long been a Chilean tradition. With sustained forestry growth over the past two decades, in 1990 Chile had an output of nearly 12 million m3 of wood, 90 percent of which was from Pinus radiata plantations. This has led to a corresponding rise in employment,...
Ergonomics in forestry – The Chilean case
06 February 2014
06 February 2014
This book summarizes some of the experiences acquired in Chile in more of 20 years of study to improve the working and living environment of forest workers.
The studies undertaken in the first six years after the founding of the Laboratory of Ergonomics were devoted to understanding the physical characteristics’ of...
Ergonomics of tree planting
06 February 2014
06 February 2014
The aims of this research were to verify previous studies and to extend the analysis on how tree planting work affects workers health. To do this, objective serial sampling was carried out of several physiological and biochemical parameters indicative of stress and breakdown in the worker.
The investigation focused on: comparing...
Ergonomics research in the southern United States
06 February 2014
06 February 2014
This article discusses ergonomics research related to forest harvesting in the southeastern United States. The activities were sponsored by the United States Forest Service's Southern Forest Experiment Station between 1980 and 1992. Parallels in prevailing environmental conditions between the southern United States and areas of the humid tropics make many...
