Research on forest management in North America has tradi-La recherche sur l'amknagement forestier en Atnkrique du Nord tionally focussed on large, industrial forest tenures (involving both a port6 traditionnellement sur les grandes tenures forestibres public and private land), or small, private woodlot management. industrielles (comprenant B la fois des terrains publics et privks), Recent discussion and experiments in Canada involve new instiou sur l'amknagement des petits for& privkes. Les

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... ntes tutions for forest management. These alternative forest mandiscussions et expkriences rkalides au Canada impliquent de nouagement systemsnamely, co-managed forests and community veaux partenaires en amknagement forestier. Ces modes altematifs forestsare compared to traditional forest management along d'amknagement forestier, des for&ts cogkrkes et des forsts comseveral dimensions, including: locus of decision-making, nature munautaires, sont compades 21 l'arnknagement forestier traditionnel of decision-making, scope of decision-making, tenure structure, selon certaines dimensions, dont : le centre de prise de dkcision, scale, and knowledge base. There exists a gap between abstract la nature de la prise de dCcision, le domaine de la prise de dkcidiscussions and practical applications of these models. Prospects sion, la structure de la tenure, l'khelle, et la base de connaissances. for the continued development of these alternative management Il existe un Ccart entre les discussions abstraites et les applications systems are evaluated. pratiques de ces modbles. Les possibilitks de poursuivre le dkveloppement des ces modes altematifs d'amknagement sont k a l -