Re: no logging in boreal forests

• Subject: Re: no logging in boreal forests
• From: Nick Ananin <visfor@globalnet.co.uk>
• Date: Wed, 29 Apr 1998 17:30:29 +0100
• Approved-By: Nick Ananin <visfor@GLOBALNET.CO.UK>
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Hi Mark

I hate to say it but it what I have been harping on about for some time.
Sustainability or sustainable development has many facets and few are
willing to even attempt to balance them. Until we can have some measure of
social and ecological values then it will be nigh on impossible to make
judgements. As a result most of the debate and argument is based on
(probably biassed) opinions of individuals and organisations.

Nick Ananin at Vision Forestry, Aberdeen, Scotland
visfor@globalnet.co.uk
ICQ Room Chat  number 9677052
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~visfor/  the home of the  Global
Association of Online Foresters

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Robson <mark.robson@utoronto.ca>
To: Nick Ananin <visfor@globalnet.co.uk>; DavidOrr <DavidOrr@aol.com>;
seppo.ruotsalainen@genfys.slu.se <seppo.ruotsalainen@genfys.slu.se>;
FOREST@listserv.funet.fi <FOREST@listserv.funet.fi>
Date: 29 April 1998 15:33
Subject: Re: no logging in boreal forests


>Hi all,
>
>I think you hit it on the head Nick. It is very easy to insist that timber
>not be cut from primary forests dominated by certain species when one lives
>in a country of secondary forests dominated by other species.  It is also
>very easy to insist that any kind of "natural" resource should not be
>harvested when one lives in an urban, "non natural" resource dependent
>economy. I would also argue that it is easy to insist that parks be
>established in economically poor, "3rd world" countries, when one comes
>from an economically rich, "1st world" country.  The debate soon starts to
>look like a argument about tariff and non-tariff barriers, or an argument
>between urban vs rural economies or "developed" vs "undeveloped" countries.
> These social and economic dimensions of "ecosystem management" or
>"sustainable development" are often the most difficult issues to resolve in
>such debates.
>
>
>Mark Robson, Ph.D. Candidate
>Faculty of Forestry, University of Toronto
>33 Willcocks St.
>Toronto, Ontario,
>CANADA, M5S 3B3
>
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>"Not everything that counts can be counted and not everything that can be
>counted counts." Albert Einstein
>
>"Science is only a tool; in the end all managerial decisions are moral, not
>technical." Jack Ward Thomas
>
>"Ecosystem management is more about people than anything else."
> Hal Salwasser
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