The ecosystem-based management of boreal forest in Quebec

(june 2010)

The ecosystem-based management concept is relatively recent in Quebec. Its gradual setting-up joins in the renewal of the forest practices to answer more adequately the ecological concerns inherent to the concept of sustainable forest development, which contains legal fondations in the law on forests.

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The certification of the forest surfaces in Canada

(march 2010)

The certification of the forest surfaces appears as a voluntary and transparent process to establish a frame of management in compliance with the principles of sustainable development of forests. The forest certification aims at guaranteeing that forests are managed in the respect for the on a local scale regional and national values.

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The forest and its management facing many actors in Quebec. They are involved in the public commissions and the various consultations provided for laws, for guiding the management of the public forest and its development. These actors come from each of the major spheres of intervention (economic, political, social and cultural). They also represent a great diversity of uses and interests.

The classification of actors of the forest in Quebec, as presented here, gives an angle of view optimal on the phenomena of social action in relation to the forest and its uses. Also for each category of actors, their ideological positioning relative to other groups and according to different models of which two theoretical and empirical.

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The social and cultural reprensentations