Course title
森林生産保全学特論   [Advanced Forest Science and Technology]
Course category   Requirement   Credit 0.5 
Department   Year   Semester Spring 
Course type Spring  Course code 96311
Instructor(s)
山本 美穂(宇)   [YAMAMOTO Miho]
Facility affiliation United Graduate School Agricultural Science Office   Email address

Course description
“Decentralization of forest policy”
It has been an important theme that the subject who should own and manage forest, in the countries and
the areas which have repeated degradation and reforestation. Forest Resource Assessment 2010 by FAO
shows that the ratio of the forest area owned publicly is 80%, and the ratio changes greatly with areas,
that owned by community, individual, private enterprise has increased. It has been proposed that there
is a pattern of evolution ‘1)common property, 2)national possession, and 3)private property’, concerning
forest ownership and management, and this pattern is significantly related to deforestation and
reforestation historically. The forest policy which originally born with modern state formation in past
centuries now begin to grope its way to decentralize.
In this lecture, the background of decentralization of forest policy, the state of the world-historic various
aspects, will be discussed.
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Expected Learning
Comprehensive understanding of ‘decentralization’ of forest management on global time scale as a tool
for sustainable forest management
Course schedule
1. What is ‘Decentralization’of forest management?
2. Global history of forest management
3. 150 years history of forest management in Asia
4. Reproduction of manmade forest resources
5. By whom should forests be owned and managed?
Prerequisites
Required Text(s) and Materials
Handouts will be provided in class.
References
To be announced in the lecture
Assessment/Grading
Message from instructor(s)
Students who interested in economic rules and historical geography
concerning sustainable resources are welcomed.
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3/28/2018 1:37:21 PM