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Innovations for protecting ridge and reef: a CSR strategy and practice

2015
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Abstract

This paper will describe and analyze the innovations adopted by a Filipino businessman and his family corporation in order to protect the forest and rehabilitate coral and marine life. The first innovation involved the engagement of villagers in forest protection via fire prevention. Known as social cultivators, villagers were given cropland in strategic locations around the company’s plantation. This approach gave the villagers a stake in preventing forest fires, the scourge of tropical forests during the dry season. After the implementation of this approach, forest fires dramatically decreased in the area. The second innovation entailed the development of underwater nurseries to grow corals which were later transplanted in damaged areas to rehabilitate marine and coral life. This innovation contributed to the reappearance of marine species in the marine protected area where the corporation runs a beach resort. The significance of these innovations will be discussed in terms of their contribution to the triple bottom-line of this corporation or to the People, Planet and Profits conceptual framework.

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2015
Book Chapters

Abstract

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/40aa6f20-cf8d-4b2d-96f5-e69464616b07

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Forest management

Forest management is a branch of forestry concerned with overall administrative, legal, economic, and social aspects, as well as scientific and technical aspects, such as silviculture, protection, and forest regulation. This includes management for timber, aesthetics, recreation, urban values, water, wildlife, inland and nearshore fisheries, wood products, plant genetic resources, and other forest resource values. Management objectives can be for conservation, utilisation, or a mixture of the two.

Forest

A forest is an area of land dominated by trees. Hundreds of definitions of forest are used throughout the world, incorporating factors such as tree density, tree height, land use, legal standing, and ecological function. The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) defines a forest as, "Land spanning more than 0.5 hectares with trees higher than 5 meters and a canopy cover of more than 10 percent, or trees able to reach these thresholds in situ. It does not include land that is predominantly under agricultural or urban use.

Marine life

Marine life, sea life, or ocean life is the plants, animals, and other organisms that live in the salt water of seas or oceans, or the brackish water of coastal estuaries. At a fundamental level, marine life affects the nature of the planet. Marine organisms, mostly microorganisms, produce oxygen and sequester carbon. Marine life in part shape and protect shorelines, and some marine organisms even help create new land (e.g. coral building reefs). Most life forms evolved initially in marine habitats.