Thursday, June 11th, 2015
The state-owned Forestry Corporation of NSW, Australia has recently standardised all field workers on a geographic information system that gives their dispersed fieldworkers access on tablets and handhelds. Previously, the company's 25 locations and 600 staff only...
Thursday, May 28th, 2015
May 28, 2015—Routledge Journals is pleased to announce a Special Issue from Society & Natural Resources entitled Formalization as Development in Land and Natural Resource Policy. This special issue, edited by Dr. Louis Putzel,...
Thursday, April 9th, 2015
Rajasthan leads the country with the largest geographical area under mining leases, hence leading to largest diversion of forest land. But despite the ministry of environment & forest requesting the state for a geo-referenced forest map since...
Thursday, January 8th, 2015
The Beijing Park and Forest Bureau (BPFP) is responsible of city park and forest management in Beijing. Its activities are strongly related to city maintenance operations and human environment management. Besides the high speed development of the city, acceleration...
Monday, October 13th, 2014
ROME, Oct. 10, 2014—FAO has launched free software tools that it hopes will improve the way many developing nations monitor the state of their forests to tackle deforestation and climate change. The tools are designed to assist countries through the...
Thursday, September 11th, 2014
A handheld mobile laser scanner is helping researchers in New Zealand develop new working practices to characterise forest stands for management and research purposes. The team at Scion, a New Zealand Crown Research Institute (CRI), required a...
Wednesday, August 27th, 2014
Forest Inventory App, an Android app designed for forest information collection, developed by Supergeo, will be released to provide forest investigators with a professional and handy tool for field survey and data recording in forests. With this...
Saturday, August 9th, 2014
Concerned over inaccurate data related to compensatory afforestation provided by certain state forest departments, the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has decided to use GIS (geographic information system) platform to monitor afforestation done across the country...
Wednesday, July 16th, 2014
A month after initiating an online system for getting environment nod, government on Tuesday launched a similar web portal for submission and monitoring of forest clearance proposals aimed at bringing transparency and accountability in the system. The...
Wednesday, June 18th, 2014
Development of a centralized forestry map for Indonesia is barely progressing as conflicting land claims and usage data cause problems between communities and businesses, stalling the country’s efforts to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Disparate maps used by...
