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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Sweden
- Population of 8,6 million persons
- 275,5 million hectares of forests
- 61 % of the total surface of the country
- 3,2 hectares of forests by resident
- 95 thousand jobs generated in the primary and industrial sectors of the economy
- 12,8 billion dollars (US$) in raw added value generated by this economic activity
- 463 US$ / ha of forests
- 1 483 US$ / resident
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