The distribution of the employment in the primary and industrial sectors of the forest industry in Quebec

The forest in Quebec generates more than quarter of the direct jobs in the primary and the manufacture sectors of the economic activity.

Such as we can see it in the graph at the right, the employment in the primary sector remains relatively low compared with the manufacturing. However, they are only about regions of which Montreal which obtain most large number of jobs in this last one.

Such as it seems the second graph, we can deduct that the strong subsidy of the region of Montreal in jobs of the manufacturing establishes a rather recent fact, given that it knew an augmentationde more than 230 % in 3 years only.

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 employment bound to the forest industry in Quebec in 2007

Source of datas : Emploi Québec - Information sur le marché du travail