José Ramón González collaborates with RECOFTC (The Centre for People and Forests) in a study for evaluating sustainable management practices for bamboo forests. The collaboration implies the design and implementation of an inventory in Thailand and Laos, and the subsequent analysis of data. The inventory will cover at least three different management systems for bamboo forest: highly controlled management, non-control management, and non-management.
By evaluating the structure of the forest in terms of: abundance of bamboo clumps; number of clums per clump; characteristics of the clums (alive vs dead , age, size, quality) ; and culm drainage per management cycle, it will be possible to assess the production of the forest and the actual revenue obtained from it.
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