Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Guidelines for Logging and Forest Clearance Activities
Title | Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Guidelines for Logging and Forest Clearance Activities PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 85 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Environmental protection |
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Sector-specific Environmental Impact Assessment Guidelines for Forest and Wood Industries
Title | Sector-specific Environmental Impact Assessment Guidelines for Forest and Wood Industries PDF eBook |
Author | Ghana. Environmental Protection Agency |
Publisher | |
Pages | 88 |
Release | 1999 |
Genre | Environmental impact analysis |
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Environmental Impact Assessment Guidelines for [name of Projects]: Waste management projects
Title | Environmental Impact Assessment Guidelines for [name of Projects]: Waste management projects PDF eBook |
Author | Malawi |
Publisher | |
Pages | 82 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Economic development projects |
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Environmental Impact of Forestry
Title | Environmental Impact of Forestry PDF eBook |
Author | Robert C. Zimmermann |
Publisher | Food & Agriculture Org. |
Pages | 102 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9789251012963 |
Screening of projects, preliminary assessment of environmental impact and other regulatory options. Detailed assessment of environmental impact. Review of environmental impact reports.
A Directory of Impact Assessment Guidelines
Title | A Directory of Impact Assessment Guidelines PDF eBook |
Author | International Institute for Environment and Development |
Publisher | IIED |
Pages | 221 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Environmental impact analysis |
ISBN | 1899825118 |
Environmental Impact Assessment Guidelines for [name of Projects]: Mining projects
Title | Environmental Impact Assessment Guidelines for [name of Projects]: Mining projects PDF eBook |
Author | Malawi |
Publisher | |
Pages | 92 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Economic development projects |
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Logging for the Ark
Title | Logging for the Ark PDF eBook |
Author | Lena Gustafsson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | Electronic books |
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In order to maintain the high levels of biodiversity and the ecological functions of tropical forest landscapes in South East Asia, production forests need to be managed in a more sustainable way. Numerous initiatives already exist in the form of codes of practice, criteria and indicators, and certification schemes in the countries of South East Asia, but to date such guidelines and standards have been vague and have lacked quantitative targets. Reduced impact logging (RIL) is a concept related to techniques and practices that aim to achieve environmentally sound timber harvesting; the concept has gained broad acceptance in the tropics. As yet, however, RIL guidelines have focused mainly on environmental aspects such as soil and water, and have taken the flora and fauna into account to a minor degree only. In this report, detailed recommendations are made to help forest managers take account of biodiversity conservation in dipterocarp logged-over and primary natural forests where mechanized logging is practiced. The recommendations are based on those made in the CIFOR publication Life after Logging, further developed through three workshops held under a joint project between the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, CIFOR and the Forest Science Institute of Vietnam. The recommendations are linked to the different phases of the forestry cycle: i.e. planning (inventories of sensitive species and habitats, delimitation of set-aside areas and riparian buffers), infrastructure (logging camps, roads, bridges, skid-trails, landings), logging (retention of critical structures, micro-habitats, key resources, felling techniques, harvesting intensity, site-adaption), post-logging (understory slashing, rehabilitation of log-landings and stream crossings, re-forestation), and monitoring (biodiversity inventories). Issues related to hunting, fire, invasive species, domestic animals, traffic, and logging and conservation for local people are also covered.