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DocumentA plan on how to create and maintain urban forest healing spaces to expand forest benefits in daily life
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Forest welfare services and healing programs allow city dwellers to relax and enjoy leisure time at a relatively low cost. With an increasing demand for such forest healing services, now is the time to construct a robust policy and institutional framework for the creation of ‘Forest Healing Complex’. This paper aims to create a policy and build an institutional framework for the expansion of forest healing services and benefits in daily life.
This paper emphasizes the necessity of creating ‘Forest Healing Complex’ based on a survey of demand and status of domestic forest healing services, and also examines a plan to introduce the Complex based on the analysis of trends and best practices at home and abroad. Furthermore, candidate sites for the Complex, principles of construction, and standards for siting were specified; facilities and activities to introduce were designed; and operation and maintenance plans were presented. Lastly, policy suggestions to promote forest healing among city dwellers were made as an alternative to creating urban forest healing places. Keywords: Human health and well-being, Sustainable forest management ID: 3622890 -
ArticleSketching future forestry education for Bangladesh in COVID 19 pandemic and post pandemic situation
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.British colonial approach is still in core of forest management of South East Asia (SEA). However, recent policies of management of forest are incorporating social aspects and considering diverse dimensions of human with various international commitments by conventions and treaties, lead the paradigm shift in forest management of SEA. This study examined century long forestry practices, forest policies, conventions and treaties on forestry, recent job markets, corporate mechanisms and blending knowledge protocols and found a demand existed to refurbish the current curricula of forestry education of SEA. Examining forestry education of Bangladesh as case study focused from its inception to date particularly to expedite the demand of new arena of knowledge on science, social science, indigenous technologies to put forward the students with the current arena of world forestry science to meet the demand of the country. Moreover, knowledge on global change, biodiversity conservation, forest-people conflict management, landscape level restoration rather forest restoration, technological interventions in forest resource monitoring and assessment, invasive species management, carbon management and trading, panel wood and wood processing were found worth for sustainable forest management. Inclusion of stated new knowledge arena for forest science may facilitate readiness of future graduates for sustainable forest management. Due to COVID19 pandemic and post pandemic on line platforms and learning systems for developing nations are crucial and need integrated developed courses for all, may widen the knowledge platform for future. This study also discussed with a view from a developing nation and put forward a bridge on knowledge sharing between developed and developing nations. Key words: Education, COVID19 pandemic, Curriculum, Collaboration ID: 3486534 -
ArticleStrategic foresight in forestry: How Canada and the United States use a neglected tool to build a green, healthy and resilient future
XV World Forestry Congress, 2-6 May 2022
2022Also available in:
No results found.Strategic foresight is a tool for understanding the ways in which the future might unfold. It is a valuable tool for identifying and mitigating areas of risk while identifying opportunities for our forests, particularly in an age of uncertainty and accelerating change. In recent years, foresight has increasingly been adopted by governments, large organizations, and forward-looking business enterprises as a method to reduce risk for their operations. But forestry agencies have been relatively slow to adopt strategic foresight methods and perspectives. A key principle of foresight is the idea of multiple alternative futures. Rather than predicting exactly how the future is likely to unfold, foresight analysts identify several plausible futures. Foresight is a guide to identify potentially influential decisions, ideas, opportunities and threats. Both the Canadian Forest Service (CFS) and the United States Forest Service (USFS) are developing strategic foresight programs to help plan and operate in an environment of growing complexity, uncertainty and rapid change. The USFS has engaged in foresight in the agency’s R&D branch since 2010. The CFS’s foresight team provides advice to policymakers from within its strategic policy division and it builds capacity for forward thinking within the organization. The two organizations have recently partnered to share their findings and approaches. To that end, this paper shows how strategic foresight can help planners, managers, and policy makers understand the future of global forests, using insights from our respective agencies. We outline what foresight is, the suite of foresight tools and how they support proactive analysis and decision making, foresight’s usefulness for the forest sector, how it is practiced in North America, and how it may be beneficial for forestry globally. Keywords: Policies, knowledge management, innovation, research, partnerships ID: 3487592
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