The Sustainable Forestry Handbook
Title | The Sustainable Forestry Handbook PDF eBook |
Author | Neil Judd |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 352 |
Release | 2013-06-17 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1136551883 |
The Sustainable Forestry Handbook is widely considered to be the essential aid to understanding and implementing sustainable forest management. Providing a clear and concise guide to the practicalities of implementing international standards for sustainable forest management, this fully updated second edition covers new Forest Stewardship Council requirements, High Conservation Value Forests, clearer requirements on pesticides and developments in policy and forest governance. Aimed at forest managers, and employing extensive cross referencing and easy-to-understand illustrations, this highly practical handbook explains in clear terms what the standards require forest managers to do and how they might go about implementing them.
Sustainable Forest Management
Title | Sustainable Forest Management PDF eBook |
Author | John L. Innes |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | 396 |
Release | 2016-12-19 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 1136456775 |
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.
Two Paths Toward Sustainable Forests
Title | Two Paths Toward Sustainable Forests PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce A. Shindler |
Publisher | Corvallis : Oregon State University Press |
Total Pages | 376 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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In recent decades, new scientific information has transformed our understanding of forest ecosystems, driving forest policy changes in both Canada and the United States. The extraction-oriented policies that dominated forest management for more than a century have given way to new approaches, leading often to acrimonious public debate, controversy over the interpretation of science, and frequent litigation by groups who support conflicting points of view. Today, the U.S. and Canada face a common challenge: to achieve a sustainable form of forest management that has wide public support. Many books discuss the scientific changes underlying forest policy, but this is the first to examine the social and economic aspects of sustainable forestry and the resulting impacts on resource policy in the two countries. The authors attempt to make sense of citizens' expectations for forests, and the responses by public-land managers and policymakers. Contributors include sociologists, research foresters, economists, political scientists, and geographers, as well as scholars in recreation and tourism. Together, their writings provide an in-depth interdisciplinary perspective on Canadian and U.S. efforts to manage public forests on a sustainable basis. The premise of "Two Paths toward Sustainable Forests is that academics and students, resource professionals, policymakers, and members of industry, environmental, and forest community groups can benefit from a comparison of the situations on either side of the border. By comparing the challenges of sustainable forestry and the different approaches adopted in Canada and the U.S., this book points the way towards potential solutions to common problems.
Restoration Forestry
Title | Restoration Forestry PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Pilarski |
Publisher | Kivak I Press |
Total Pages | 532 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9781882308514 |
Defining Sustainable Forestry
Title | Defining Sustainable Forestry PDF eBook |
Author | Greg Aplet |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 360 |
Release | 1993-10 |
Genre | Nature |
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Before the transition in forestry can be made from conventional approaches of the past century to the ecosystem approach of the next, a consensus must be reached on the meaning of "sustainable forestry." Defining Sustainable Forestry presents the results of a national conference convened by The Wilderness Society, American Forests, and the World Resources Institute to help establish a common framework upon which to guide the future development of forestry.
Sustainable Development Goals
Title | Sustainable Development Goals PDF eBook |
Author | Pia Katila |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 653 |
Release | 2019-12-12 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1108486991 |
A global assessment of potential and anticipated impacts of efforts to achieve the SDGs on forests and related socio-economic systems. This title is available as Open Access via Cambridge Core.
Forests and Food
Title | Forests and Food PDF eBook |
Author | Bhaskar Vira |
Publisher | Open Book Publishers |
Total Pages | 290 |
Release | 2015-11-15 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1783741937 |
As population estimates for 2050 reach over 9 billion, issues of food security and nutrition have been dominating academic and policy debates. A total of 805 million people are undernourished worldwide and malnutrition affects nearly every country on the planet. Despite impressive productivity increases, there is growing evidence that conventional agricultural strategies fall short of eliminating global hunger, as well as having long-term ecological consequences. Forests can play an important role in complementing agricultural production to address the Sustainable Development Goals on zero hunger. Forests and trees can be managed to provide better and more nutritionally-balanced diets, greater control over food inputs—particularly during lean seasons and periods of vulnerability (especially for marginalised groups)—and deliver ecosystem services for crop production. However forests are undergoing a rapid process of degradation, a complex process that governments are struggling to reverse. This volume provides important evidence and insights about the potential of forests to reducing global hunger and malnutrition, exploring the different roles of landscapes, and the governance approaches that are required for the equitable delivery of these benefits. Forests and Food is essential reading for researchers, students, NGOs and government departments responsible for agriculture, forestry, food security and poverty alleviation around the globe.