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DocumentSFI education and job matching programs expand and deepen youth connection to forests and build future forest and conservation leaders
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.The Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) believes that building a next generation of leadership that will take responsibility for solving environmental challenges is one of the best investments a society can make. Promoting an appreciation for the natural world is a key component of SFI’s work because it helps ensure youth can be effective future leaders and have a strong understanding of the value of well managed forests.
Project Learning Tree, SFI’s environmental education program, advances environmental literacy, stewardship, and career pathways using trees and forests as windows on the world. Encouraging children to spend time outside improves creativity, imagination, academic achievement, and overall health and fitness.
PLT tools, resources and training are designed for educators, parents, and community leaders working with youth from preschool through college and university. PLT’s Nature Activities for Families offers fun and easy-to-do activities are perfect for parents and grandparents to help introduce children to nature. For educators, PLT has recently released Explore Your Environment, K-8 Activity Guide to support learning from grades K through 8. It includes online professional development to train educators and those that engage with youth in using the resource. Project Learning Tree Canada is Connecting Youth with Green Jobs and Forest Mentors
PLT Canada is committed to using the outdoors to engage youth in learning about the world around them—in rural, Indigenous and urban communities—and advancing environmental literacy, stewardship, and career pathways.
By 2022, in partnership with the Government of Canada, PLT Canada will have supported over 5,000 green jobs in the forest and parks sectors. Our expanding mentorship program connects youth directly to forest and conservation sector professionals. These SFI education programs provide opportunities for forest leaders to build bridges to future generations. Keywords: Youth and young generation, Education, Sustainable forest management, Decent employment ID: 3478920 -
DocumentInterplay of forest management and human well-being, and the role of certification standards for management and research
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Forest management, management plans and work plan strategies, and the way the plans are developed and implemented influence human health and well-being in various direct and indirect respects.
Directly affected stakeholders are those conducting the forest work, and vice versa they do have a direct effect on the quality of the forest management interventions, and to a certain extent on the health of the ecosystem. Their physical and mental wellbeing depends on various factors influenced by the management. Physical health has synergies with work motivation and mental wellbeing, which is influenced e.g. by relations with supervisors and colleagues (respect and equity versus harassment and discrimination), direct and indirect income, and job security.
Forest management also has an influence on the quality of recreational and other ecosystem services of the managed forest and surrounding landscape. Regulation of access to such services, in engagement with neighboring and other interested, more indirectly affected stakeholders is to be considered in forest management planning.
Standards for certification, such as national forest stewardship standards, provide references and give guidance, including for forest management planning and for certain aspects of social management, to be followed by certified forestry operations.
On the example of tropical forests, based on literature, we provide an overview about synergies of forest management and human well-being, how far certification standards can address these issues (comparison of standards), and where gaps remain. We show how accessible data from certification (analysis of public reports) can be used to inform research, and how research can inform the development of forest stewardship standards. Keywords: Human health and well-being, Monitoring and data collection, Gender, Social protection, Sustainable forest management ID: 3487002 -
ArticleSatellite remote sensing-based forest resources assessment methods for effective management and sustainable development of forests by generation of information on forests and trees outside forest cover
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Satellite based remote sensing methods have proved to be an effective and scientifically proven method for managing and conserving forest data and resources at periodic time intervals. The forest resources monitoring methods provide useful data to forest managers for sustainable forest management at different scale and forest management units. Over the years the scientific management of forest have been a subject globally discussed incorporating the role of environmentalist, conservationist and communities associated with the forest. It has been an unhidden fact that forests have suffered tremendous pressure in developing countries on the pretext of development. It is through effective monitoring and communication of forest information and knowledge that the concerned provincial governments are forced to take remedial measures for protecting the forests. Apart from the government owned forests, termed as Recorded Forest Areas(RFA) in India, Trees outside forests(TOF) are well acknowledged as an important component of forest resources. The ToF, which basically exist as block, linear and scattered plantations on earth are captured using LISS-III sensor of Indian Remote Sensing Satellite. For the national level scale mapping, all patches of area 1hectare and above are considered for estimation. For mapping of ToF patches of size between 0.1-1hectare, high resolution data from LISSIV sensor(5.8metres resolution) is analyzed. It has been now a well-established fact that trees outside RFAs, although in small proportion, contribute significantly to forest conservation and meeting the demand of people towards minor forest produce, firewood etc. The exercise on forest change detection using a hybrid method, is effective in identification of significant forest change. The assessment of forests and ToFs using satellite data and advance image processing tools may be helpful in effective management and long term sustainability of forests in developing countries. Keywords: [Recorded Forest Area, Trees Outside Forest, National Forest Inventory, FSI, Neural Network, Machine Learning] ID: 3622277
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