From clear cut to permanent forest cover: Developing cost-effective strategies for a transition towards multi-objective resource management

在过去，加拿大的森林在很大程度上是采用明确的方法进行管理的。 随着人们对森林提供的其他商品和服务越来越感兴趣，替代管理做法，如 部分砍伐或连续覆盖林业已经慢慢开始变得更加重要，即使不仅是 目前正在考虑生态目标。 随着加拿大政府和法院确认需要尊重原住民土地所有权，社区将 有权对其社会经济事务进行更多的控制。随着管理目标的确立， 联合国社区正在关注替代管理做法，以确保提供其他 除木材生产外的生态系统服务，如水、野生动物栖息地或视觉质量目标 变得特别相关。 在从“经典”的明确方法向替代管理做法过渡的同时，至关重要的是 确保永久的木材供应以及构成以森林为基础的稳健的其他属性 工业部门、工作保障和促进投资。 该项目旨在为制定这一重要的过渡战略奠定基础 挑战。在行业和大学之间建立牢固联系的同时，这项工作将使UBC的研究人员 了解行业研究需求和目标，这些需求和目标构成了普遍适用的过渡战略的基础 适用。使用来自典型森林原住民社区的数据将使我们能够确保 将我们的研究成果转化为该行业的潜力。 该项目的成果将包括开发一套面向目标的管理原型 场景以及最佳实践手册，将为其他行业合作伙伴、基于森林的社区提供 以及森林管理者，并提供了一个例子，以了解和估计相关的经济后果 随着向多目标森林资源管理过渡。

In the past, Canada's forests were managed using clear-cut approaches to a large extent. With increasing interest in other goods and services forests provide, alternative management practices, such as partial cuts or continuous cover forestry have slowly started to become more relevant even when not only ecological goals are being considered. With Canada's government and courts affirming the need to respect First Nations land titles communities will be empowered to take more control over their socio-economic affairs. With the management goals that First Nations communities are focusing on, alternative management practices, that ensure the provision of other ecosystem services alongside timber production, such as water, wildlife habitat or visual quality objectives become particularly relevant. While transitioning from "classical" clear cut approaches towards alternative management practices it is crucial to ensure permanent timber supply as well as other attributes that form the basis for a robust forest based industry sector, job security and foster investments. This project aims to build a basis for the development of solid transitioning strategies for this important challenge. While building strong links between industry and University, this work will allow UBC researchers to understand industry research needs and goals that form a basis for a transitioning strategy that is universally applicable. Using data from a typical forest based First Nations community will allow us to ensure a strong potential of transferring our findings to the industry. The outcomes of this project will include the development of a prototype set of goal oriented management scenarios as well as a best practice manual that will serve other industry partners, forest based communities as well as forest managers and provide an example to understand and estimate the economic consequences related with transitioning towards multi-objective forest resources management.