Urban forestry is:

Related Mcqs:

1. Management of Urban Forest is concerned with management needs of forests in urban areas and with how needs are:

   A. Whatever is done for the forest to maintain the health and vigour
   B. Whatever is done to the forest to prevent undue interference with the society
   C. Both (a) & (b)
   D. None of these

2. Agro-forestry and social forestry concept is:

   A. An inter-disciplinary approach to systems of land use
   B. It implies an awareness of interactions and feedback between man and environment
   C. Between demand and available resources in a given area
   D. Which – under certain conditions – require optimization and sustained management rather that ever-increasing exploitations
   E. All of the above

3. Benefits of Urban Forests are:

   A. Climate amelioration
   B. Environmental engineering uses Architectural uses
   C. Aesthetic uses
   D. Aesthetic uses
   E. All of the above

4. Benefits of social forestry are:

   A. Betterment of environment
   B. Reduction of pollution
   C. Protection from wind, conservation of moisture
   D. Reduction of moisture
   E. All of the above

5. Use oriented forestry are:

   A. Industrial forestry
   B. Energy forestry
   C. Both (a) & (b)
   D. None of these

6. The main problems faced in implementing community forestry are:

   A. Villagers feel apprehensive of the programme, which they feel is another version of taking away their land by the government
   B. Programme needs community’s voluntary cooperation and cannot be imposed on it
   C. Programme should be based on the trust and confidence on both sides
   D. Alternate employment opportunities made available locally reduce pressures on forests
   E. All of the above

7. According to Jeff Romm (1980) which are essentials for the community forestry programme are:

   A. The technology must be more suitable and available and must be more productive and ecologicallly sustainable than that already in use
   B. The villagers must feel secured of the benefits
   C. New uses of the land and other resources must be profitable from the villager’s point of view
   D. Perception of such benefits is more fundamental to promised incentives
   E. All of the above

8. Essential ingredients for the success of community forestry are:

   A. Capabilities of the land
   B. The villagers choice of land use
   C. Nature of the support the organizational structure provides
   D. All of the above

9. Social forestry means:

   A. It is forestry of people by the people and for the people
   B. The forestry in which the efforts aimed at raising and managing trees for the benefits of rural people
   C. Both (a) & (b)
   D. None of these

10. Migration flows: Some projects are undertaken to stop the movement of people from nural areas to urban areas / and:

    A. Rural industry projects
    B. Electrification of rural areas
    C. Both (a) & (b)
    D. None of these