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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Methodological approach
The written reports and the recordings of the debates relative to a consultation rarely take a directly useful shape in an analysis of contents. At first, to facilitate the participation, the rules of editorial staff of the memories(reports) remain generally rather wide. Some memories will respect strictly the rules of the art, will contain a table of contents, appendices, letter of presentation; while the others will limit themselves almost exclusively to the contents. A preparation of the material becomes thus essential to introduce a certain standardization.
The method presented here contains three parts; the one qualitative, the other one quantitative and the semi-qualitative intermediary.
The lexicometric analysis or quantitative
The tests of hypothesis