Railways and the Exploitation of Victoria's Forests, 1880s–1920s

Railways made a large contribution to the expansion of Victoria's economy, and in the process enabled and drove environmental change. This article focuses on one industry, forestry. It first examines railway demand for timber in construction and maintenance, particularly for sleepers. This demand caused tensions – a bitter dispute in the 1890s between the Railways Department and the Conservator of Forests, George Perrin, over timber cut on state land led to uneasy co-existence after the turn of the century. Railways not only required timber but also carried commercial quantities in bulk, providing forest industries with access to profitable markets – in particular firewood, the significance of which has been underappreciated previously. Forest products contributed substantially to railway revenue, representing a more stable source of income than other major categories of freight such as wheat, wool, and coal.     

Interlocking Lives: Employment Mobility and Family Fixity in Three Gentrifying Neighbourhoods of Montreal

This article explores the relationship between employment mobility, family fixity, and gentrification in the lives of 36 residents in and extended commuters to Montreal's southwest borough. Once described as the birthplace of industry in Canada, the neighbourhoods of Saint-Henri, Little Burgundy and Point Saint-Charles have undergone sweeping changes in recent decades. Inner-city areas are not necessarily where one expects to find mobile workers, but this is changing due to shifting gender roles, the rise of dual-income households and gentrification. Michael Savage's concept of ‘elective belonging’ proved particularly useful in understanding this connection. With its proximity to childcare, schools, stores and workplaces, the central city permits a more equitable division of labour within the household. Our place-based approach to mobile work enables us to capture a wide spectrum of experience, ranging from people with extended daily commutes to those whose work takes them away from home for days, weeks or months at a time. Our interviews reveal a connection between employment mobility and family gentrification, as upwardly mobile families find ways to localize other aspects of their lives. The simultaneity of mobility and immobility are often essential, especially in dual-income households. One parent's mobility often leads to the relative immobility of other family members.     

Community forest management,gender and fuelwood collection in rural Nepal

This paper investigates how Forest User Group (FUG) management of community forests and household characteristics influence household allocation of male and female labor to fuelwood collection in rural Nepal. FUG collection bans are found to displace both landed and landless female fuelwood collection labor to other forests that are typically further away, but lower restrictions do not. A higher female FUG executive committee share has both conservation and equity enhancing effects by lowering the likelihoods that landless, Dalit, landed and non-Dalit women collect in other forests, and increasing the likelihood landless males collect in the FUG forest.     

西安市林业高效复合经营模式与效益调查

通过对西安市近年来主要实施的林—油、林—菜、林—苗、林—禽、林—菌、林—药等林业高效复合经营模式及其效益进行深入调研和分析,确定了不同类型的林地宜采用的具体复合经营模式和不宜种植的作物种类,为今后实施林下复合经营提供了科学依据。     

浅议目前林业经济研究中存在的问题及对策

对党的十八大以来林业经济研究工作存在的缺少较为深入的基础性、规范性和系统性研究,缺乏创造性,与实际结合能力较差等方面的问题进行了分析,并提出了相应的对策。     

信息化在林业管理中的应用——广西林业信息化建设初探

文章结合广西林业信息化建设的现状,分析了广西林业信息化建设存在的问题,并提出搞好广西林业信息化建设的下一阶段构想。     

生态危机语境下的林业院校生态伦理教育

21世纪是我国社会经济资源和环境进入可持续发展良性循环的世纪,生态伦理教育是解决生态危机和建设生态文明的重要途径。林业院校大学生作为新生社会生产力的中坚力量,其生态道德的水平和观念决定着我们民族的发展和未来。生态危机语境下对大学生开展生态伦理教育有利于使大学生确立生态危机和环境保护参与意识,培养对大自然的敬畏之感与欣赏之情,引导他们做一个保护生态、尊重生命、善待自然和适度消费的理性生态人。     

长株潭两型社会林业生态建设研究

长株潭两型社会获批给区域生态建设提供了良好契机,林业生态建设是目前生态建设的首要任务,两型社会建设和林业生态建设的最终落脚点是生态文明。目前该区域局部环境状况恶化、森林覆盖率、城市绿化率低于全省平均水平,城市社会发展不可持续。在提出构建环境友好型两型社会的背景下,沿湘江流域和三市结合部布局生态公益林带,加强林业生态建设和都市生态圈建设,对保护湘江水质、改善区域环境、支撑两型社会建设具有重要的战略意义。     

信息化在林业管理中的应用——广西林业信息化建设初探

文章结合广西林业信息化建设的现状,分析了广西林业信息化建设存在的问题,并提出搞好广西林业信息化建设的下一阶段构想。