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Forest Policy Lab
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A forest policy lab that explores how forests and local communities are connected.
AboutAbout the lab
Exploring how forests and local communities are connected.
The Forest Policy Lab studies how forest resources are managed in local communities, and how forest management relates to those communities.
Its field is forest policy studies, which the faculty introduction also describes as forest resource sociology.
The lab belongs to the Social Economics Course of the College of Agro-Biological Resource Sciences and is run by Associate Professor Katsuhisa Kohroki.
Key terms
- Forest policy studies
- A field that studies the policies and systems related to forests and forestry, and the social and economic mechanisms behind them.
- Self-logging forestry (jibatsu-gata forestry)
- Forestry in which forest owners or local residents carry out logging and other work themselves.
- Forest owners' cooperative
- A cooperative formed by people who own forests. It handles forestry work and other tasks.
ResearchResearch themes
The Forest Policy Lab investigates the relationship between forest resources and local communities. The professor's research keywords include self-logging forestry, forest owners' cooperatives, forestry labor issues, and the "Green Employment" (Midori no Koyo) program.
*Illustrative imageCommunity Management of Forest Resources
This research examines how local communities manage forests as a resource.
*Illustrative imageForest Management and Local Communities
This research examines how forest management has taken shape and spread, in relation to local communities.
*Illustrative imageCollective Forest Organizations
This research studies collective forest organizations.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorKatsuhisa Kohroki
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) - New Mexico ( )” Forest Service Photography / Public domain (cropped)
- Community Management of Forest Resources: “Satoyama landscape near Hida, Gifu” Seth Vidal / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Forest Management and Local Communities: “Timber Harvesting, Muncaster Fell - geograph.org.uk - 117030” Bob Jenkins / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Collective Forest Organizations: “Stacked logs in Inverliever Forest - geograph.org.uk - 4154698” Patrick Mackie / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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- Related lab (Soil Environmental Chemistry Lab): “CSIRO ScienceImage 712 Soil Profiling India” T.Grove, CSIRO / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Watershed Management Lab): “Wet Winter in the Mississippi River Basin (MODIS )” MODIS Land Rapid Response Team, NASA GSFC / Public domain (cropped)
- Related lab (Water Resources and Environmental Engineering Lab): “Last mile irrigation- Pipe to field in Raichur, Karnataka, India” User: Vraj Acharya, WELL Labs / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
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