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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Review of key periods marking development of forestry in Quebec over the last four centuries
The industrial revolution and the agricultural revolution of the Neolithic period represent two of the most significant periods of change in history. Of the last 10,000 years, the current period beginning about 250 years ago marks human fate to such a degree that men of tomorrow will have few things in common with the man of yesterday. This relatively short period of rapid change suggests it could take several hundred years for humanity to fully adapt to the post-industrial age.
The historic portrait and its analysis :
The passage in the industrial eraThe draft of furs (on 1671 - 1738)
The English conquest (on 1730 - 1830)
The colonization (on 1838 - 1939)
The period fordiste (on 1920 - 1970)
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Historic glance on the forect sector in Quebec