Assessing forest management scenarios on an Aboriginal territory through simulation modeling

Forestry Chronicle

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 426-435

  Asselin, Hugo ^a   Larouche, Mario ^b   Kneeshaw, Daniel ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC EN ABITIBI TÉMISCAMINGUE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Forest management; Indigenous people; Landscape; Modeling; Social acceptability

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEMS; HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION; MODELS; ROADS AND STREETS;

ABORIGINAL COMMUNITIES; ECOSYSTEM-BASED MANAGEMENT; FOREST AGE STRUCTURES; INDIGENOUS PEOPLE; LANDSCAPE; NATURAL DISTURBANCE REGIME; SOCIAL ACCEPTABILITY; SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT;

FORESTRY;

BOREAL FOREST; COMPLIANCE; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL VALUES; FOREST COVER; FOREST MANAGEMENT; HABITAT LOSS; INDIGENOUS POPULATION; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; STAKEHOLDER; SUSTAINABLE FORESTRY; TERRITORY;

EID: 84946136336     PISSN: 00157546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5558/tfc2015-072     Document Type: Article

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