Sustainable Forest Management

ISBN-13: 9781844077236 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 416 str.

Opis

Sustainable Forest Management provides the necessary material to educate students about forestry and the contemporary role of forests in ecosystems and society. This comprehensive textbook on the concept and practice of sustainable forest management sets the standard for practice worldwide. 

Early chapters concentrate on conceptual aspects, relating sustainable forestry management to international policy. In particular, they consider the concept of criteria and indicators and how this has determined the practice of forest management, taken here to be the management of forested lands and of all ecosystems present on such lands. Later chapters are more practical in focus, concentrating on the management of the many values associated with forests. 

Overall the book provides a major new synthesis which will serve as a textbook for undergraduates of forestry as well as those from related disciplines such as ecology or geography who are taking a course in forests or natural resource management.

Spis treści

1. Sustainable Forest Management: From Concept to Practice  John L. Innes  2. Criteria and Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management  John L. Innes  3. Forest Biodiversity  Fred Bunnell  4. Productivity of Forest Ecosystems  Juan A. Blanco, Yueh-Hsin Lo, Clive Welham, and Bruce Larson  5. Forest Ecosystem Health and Vitality  Richard Hamelin and John L. Innes  6. Maintenance of Soils  John L. Innes  7. Water and Watersheds  R. Dan Moore, Roy C. Sidle, Brett Eaton, Gomi Takahashi and David Wilford  8. Forests and Carbon  John L. Innes  9. The Changing Socio-economic Contributions of Forestry  Harry Nelson, Ngaio Hotte, and Robert Kozak  10. Social, Cultural, and Spiritual (SCS) Needs and Values  Janette Bulkan  11. Public Participation in Forest Land-Use Decision-Making  Howard Harshaw and Hosny El-Lakany  12. Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) from an International Perspective  Hosny El-Lakany  13. Addressing Social, Economic and Environmental Objectives and Values through Decision Support Systems  Craig R. Nitschke, Anne-Hélène Mathey, Patrick O. Waeber  14. Assessing the Quality of Forest Management  Anna V. Tikina  15. Adaptive Management: a Case Study of How Some of the Principles of SFM can be Applied in Practice  Fred Bunnell  16. Conclusions  John L. Innes

O autorze

John L. Innes is Forest Renewal BC Chair in Forest Management and Dean of the Faculty of Forestry at the University of British Columbia, Canada. 

Anna V. Tikina is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Forest Resources Management and a consultant specializing in Sustainable Forest Management and International Environmental Governance at the University of British Columbia, Canada.