Journal articles by Neil Byron
Technology will help to address the challenges for sustainable forestry in the 21st century. Some... more Technology will help to address the challenges for sustainable forestry in the 21st century. Some of the challenges will include the shift of production from native forest to plantations in areas of comparative advantage, more efficient processing delinking end-use products from raw wood characteristics, increased demand, better information technologies to support decision makers, and more options for conserving biodiversity. Definitions of sustainability will vary in time and space as society's expectations and aspirations change, so there can be no "silver bullet" to ensure sustainability. However, progress may be facilitated with a systematic approach to forest management embracing the usual planning cycle: formulation of objectives, preparation of a strategy, planning, implementing, monitoring, and reappraisal. This requires a good understanding of each particular situation. Managers need good resource assessment and decision support systems; they must foster stakeholder participation in decisions, costs and benefits; and ensure effective procedures to resolve conflicts. Within an appropriate system, technical advances such as better machines and new implements may help to make a difference, but will not in themselves ensure sustainability. The important technologies for sustainable forestry are those that foster better communication between stakeholders and allow informed decisions spanning scales from the gene to the ecosystem. This remains an important challenge for forest managers in their search for sustainability.
Papers by Neil Byron
Basin futures: water reform in the Murray-Darling …, 2011
... But Australia is now three years into implementation of the 10-point Turnbull Rudd &#x27... more ... But Australia is now three years into implementation of the 10-point Turnbull Rudd 'strategy to fix the MDB'in 10 years for $10 billion ... The greatest threat to the three Hydrological Indicator Sites in the Lower Lachlan River (such as the Booligal Wetlands) could be salinity, not lack ...
UNASYLVA-FAO-, 2006
... Kalimantan, Indonesia (Byron and Shepherd, 1998); deliberate fires in Fiji pine planta-tion... more ... Kalimantan, Indonesia (Byron and Shepherd, 1998); deliberate fires in Fiji pine planta-tions in 1989, lit by the owners them-selves in protest against perceived mismanagement and inequity in the plantation scheme. Repudiation ...
... population growth can also influence forest clearing through numerous other causal relations,... more ... population growth can also influence forest clearing through numerous other causal relations, which often have conflicting effects (Bilsborrow and Geores ... independent studies suggest that the short-run eco-nomic cost to Indonesia has been extremely high (Lindsay 1989 and ...
Numerous published economic models of tropical deforestation are reviewed, in four categories: - ... more Numerous published economic models of tropical deforestation are reviewed, in four categories: - a Neo-Malthusian approach, often nebulous and imprecise in terms of causal processes, which sees population pressure as the underlying cause of tropical deforestation; - those focusing on government failures - particularly on misdirected government policies in other sectors that result in excessive and inappropriate deforestation; sectoral (e.g. log export ban) policies; and the general failure of supervisory institutions of governance, including corruption. This approach puts great emphasis on the effects of government interventions; - a microeconomic approach which considers the economic rationality of forest clearance from a farmer's perspective, and explains how various forms of market failure, e.g. poorly defined property rights, poorly-designed logging contracts and undervaluation of forest benefits at the local, regional or global level, all contribute to deforestation; and - ...
Commonwealth Forestry Review, 1996
... We have argued elsewhere (Sayer and Byron 1996) that the importance of industrial cellulose f... more ... We have argued elsewhere (Sayer and Byron 1996) that the importance of industrial cellulose from TMF is likely to decline substantially in future, due to the increased availabil-ity and reduced prices of substitutes ... Illegal trade is much more difficult to control than legal trade. ...
… , K., Turnbull, JW and …, 1996
CIFOR advances human wellbeing, environmental conservation and equity by conducting research to i... more CIFOR advances human wellbeing, environmental conservation and equity by conducting research to inform policies and practices that affect forests in developing countries. CIFOR is one of 15 centres within the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research ( ...
Thinking beyond the canopy. ...
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Journal articles by Neil Byron
Papers by Neil Byron