Forest Management Problems in Cambodia : A Case Study of Forest Management of F Company
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概要
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A fast growing population and the need for food and forest products coupled with the great demand for wood and rapid economic development in the developing world have brought sustainable forest management under continuous uncertainty. Deforestation in the developing world has been relatively high. But recently, it has been more widely recognized that over-exploitation of forest products and non-forest products is prejudicing the sustainability of the world's forests. Cambodia has been chosen as a case study to test this hypothesis regarding sustainable forest management. There are two main types of forests in Cambodia, namely dryland and edaphic forests, covering a total area of 10.59 million ha or 58% of the total land area. It had been reduced from 12.32 million ha in 1973 as a result of wars and political instability over the last 25 years. Against a background of government instability, great domestic and foreign demands for wood in recent years have resulted in Cambodia's forests being over-exploited. To prove this, a selective 25-year felling cycle system used by F Company was analyzed with the aid of various statistical tools. The analysis shows that although the growing stock of F's evergreen forest is as low as 82 m^3/ha due to illegal logging, the company has exploited 7 m^3/ha or 9% of the total stock. This was 6 percentage points higher than the sustainable cutting rate of Cambodia's evergreen forest. This supports the hypothesis of over-exploitation. The result also shows that there is still a large number of residual trees with diameter less than 45 cm, which are available for extracting over the next 25 years if they are properly managed. Strong enforcement mechanisms for forest monitoring and control are needed to stop illegal logging, to prevent over-exploitation and to manage the residual trees for long-term availability of forest resources.
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著者
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Ueki Tatsuhito
Faculty Of Agricultural Science Shinshu University
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Uozumi Y
Faculty Of Agricultural Science Shinshu University
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Uozumi Yuji
Faculty Of Agricultural Science Shinshu University
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Nophea Kim
Doctoral Program In Agricultural Science United Graduate School Of Agricultural Science Gifu Univers
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Syphan Ouk
Department of Forestry and Wildlife
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