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Intro -- CLIMATE CHANGE AND FOREST ECOSYSTEMS -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: CARBON SEQUESTRATION ANALYSIS FOR CANFOR TFL48 FROM THE CANADIAN BUDGET MODEL FOR THE FORESTRY SECTOR (CBM-CFS3) -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- THE CARBON BUDGET MODEL FOR THE CANADIAN FOREST SECTOR (CBM-CFS3) -- CBM-CFS3 MODEL RESULTS FOR CANFOR TFL48 -- CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2: SIMULATION MODELING TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE VULNERABILITY AND ADAPTATION PLANNING IN A SASKATCHEWAN FOREST ECOSYSTEM -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- VULNERABILITY AND CLIMATE CHANGE -- VULNERABILITY MODELING -- PREDICTED IMPACTS AND MODELLING RESULTS -- DEVELOPING ADAPTATION OPTIONS -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3: SHELTERBELTS ON SASKATCHEWAN FARMS: AN ASSET OR A NUISANCE -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND -- RESEARCH METHODS -- RESULTS -- CONCLUSION AND DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4: INDIGENOUS PHILIPPINE AETA MAGBUKÚN TRIBE'S TRADITIONAL FOREST USE AND ADAPTATION TO ENCROACHING CULTURES, LAND USES AND CASH-BASED AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- EARLY CULTURAL ADAPTATION -- ADAPTATION OF TRADITIONAL AND NEW INFLUENCES -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5: DETECTING LOGGING ROADS AND CLEARCUTS WITH TERRASAR AND RADARSAT DATA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- STUDY AREA -- RESEARCH METHODS -- RESEARCH RESULTS AND DISCUSSIONS -- CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 6 CHARCOAL FROM SAVANNA WOODLANDS IN A REDD STRATEGY: CASE OF SUDAN -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- LITERATURE REVIEW -- RESEARCH METHODS -- RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 7: EVALUATION OF FOREST SOIL ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS THAT INFLUENCE CARBON SEQUESTRATION POTENTIAL.

Developing administrative and financial mechanisms to achieve transparency and compliance with legal frameworks related to mine operation and closure is a major challenge. Ensuring the appropriate level of disclosure, transparency, and accountability of all compliant and non-compliant parties, and accessibility of this information to external interested parties is a cornerstone of achieving a well-governed minerals sector. This research investigates mining company voluntary environmental disclosures in Zambia as an indicator of how the EITI (Extractive Industry Transparency Initiative) may or may not achieve transparency and accountability. Our research findings drew on three sources: literature review, qualitative primary data with EITI and government officials and content analysis to compare public environmental reporting via company websites of a total of 27 mining companies operating in Zambia. Our analysis found that non-EITI and EITI selected companies disclose similar provisions for environmental liabilities at country, subsidiary, or multinational level. While EITI compliance may improve the environmental financial disclosure by mining companies, the detail and specificity of the voluntarily disclosed information is insufficiently transparent to third parties investigating whether governments and companies are compliant with the law in terms of environmental and governance considerations. We propose solutions to achieve transparency in practice by linking aggregated international voluntary initiatives (akin to the EITI) with mandatory jurisdiction-level reforms in mining financial securities and mine closure legislation accounted at the tenement level that is publicly available. Such reforms enable both independent accounting of financial transactions and improved national capacity for minerals sector governance that attracts international investment and incentivises an innovative, environmentally sustainable, and an economically beneficial mining industry

The Indigenous Aeta Magbukún maintain a primarily nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle in their forested ancestral lands. Through the continued encroachment of non-Indigenous populations, the Aeta Magbukún persist at a critical level. Finding it increasingly difficult to sustain their traditional livelihoods, they must engage in informal commerce to procure sufficient food throughout the year. This work explores the basis of self-identity, traditional kinship ties, evolution of sociopolitical organisation, and the developing political options that sustain the small and vulnerable Indigenous population. Despite recent tentative sociopolitical developments, securing cultural protection requires greater effort in developing political communication and representation at a local and national level. In doing so, the Aeta Magbukún can meet their basic needs, secure traditional cultural knowledge, and are able to influence their own development during a time of relatively rapid acculturation within the mainstream Philippine societal complex.