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Forecasting Forest Futures
Modelling is an important tool for understanding the complexity of forest ecosystems and the variety of interactions of ecosystem components, processes and values. This book describes the hybrid approach to modelling forest ecosystems and their possible response to natural and management-induced disturbance. The book describes the FORECAST family of ecosystem management models at three different spatial scales (tree, stand and landscape), and compares them with alternative models at these three spatial scales. The book will help forest managers to understand what to expect from ecosystem-based forest models; serve as a tool for use in teaching about sustainability, scenario analysis and valu...
Rainforest Tourism, Conservation and Management
Globally rainforests are under threat on numerous fronts, including clearing for agriculture, harvesting for timber and urban expansion. Yet they have a crucial role in biodiversity conservation, climate change mitigation and providing other ecosystem services. As the term is used in this book, rainforests include both temperate and tropical, although the emphasis is on tropical rainforests. Rainforests are also attractive tourist spaces and where they have been used as a tourism resource have generated significant income for local communities. However not all use of rainforests as a tourism resource has been sustainable. This book argues that sustainability must be the foundation on which t...
Climate Change Impacts on Tropical Forests in Central America
The loss of biodiversity is a major environmental problem in nearly every terrestrial ecosystem on Earth. This loss is accelerating driven by climate change, as well as by other causes including agricultural exploitation, fragmentation and degradation triggered by land use changes. The crucial issue under debate is the impact on the welfare of current and future population, and the role of humans in the exploitation of natural resources. This is of particular importance in Central America, which it is amongst the richest and most threatened biodiversity regions on the Earth, and where the loss of ecosystems strongly affects its socio-economic vulnerability. This book addresses the impacts of...
Evidence-based Conservation
The basis of this book is the disparity between the science of conservation biology and the design and execution of biodiversity conservation projects in the field. The book argues for an 'evidence-based approach', drawing information from fifteen projects in the Lower Mekong regions, with the aim of allowing more effective integrated conservation projects.
Forests, Business and Sustainability
Forests are under tremendous pressure from human uses of all kinds, and one of the most significant threats to their sustainability comes from commercial interests. This book presents a comprehensive examination of the interactions between the forest products sector and the sustainability of forests. It captures the most current sustainability concerns within the forestry sector and various sustainability-oriented initiatives to address these. Experts from around the world analyze interconnected topics including market mechanisms, regulatory mechanisms, voluntary actions, and governance, and outline their effectiveness, potential, and limitations. By presenting a novel overview of the burgeoning field of business sustainability within the forestry sector, this book paves a way forward in understanding what is working, what is not working, and what could potentially work to ensure sustainable business practices within the forestry sector,
Managing Forests as Complex Adaptive Systems
The emerging concepts of complexity, complex adaptive system (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and management are linked in this new book. It explores how these concepts can be applied in various forest biomes of the world with their different ecological, economic and social settings, and history.
Silviculture of Temperate and Boreal Broadleaf-conifer Mixtures
This volume presents papers given at a workshop held to review current knowledge of the silviculture of temperate and boreal broadleaf-conifer mixtures and the consequences of growing mixed stands. Topics of the papers include the importance of mixedwood stands, managing birch-dominated mixed stands, competition dynamics, silvicultural systems, stand dynamics, vegetation management, red alder-conifer stands, mixedwood management research, white spruce and aspen stands, vertical stratification in mixed-species stands, habitat management for game and parasite control, simulation of long-term impacts of alder/fir mixtures, understory protection, fertilisation, control of spruce weevils, and litter decomposition.
Sixième Séminaire Canadien de R & D
De verslaglegging van dit seminar met de nieuwste ontwikkelingen op Canadese onderzoeksinstituten is onderverdeeld in een algemeen gedeelte over economische kansen en mogelijkheden van bio-energie; produktie van biomassa; technologie; biologische processen en thermo-chemische processen
Integrated Forest Vegetation Management
Contains papers and summaries of posters presented at a workshop held to provide field practitioners and researchers with current information about treatment options available for forest vegetation management, and to discuss the application of integrated pest management concepts to forest vegetation management. Topics of papers include silvicultural systems, prescribed burning, mechanical site preparation, forest vegetation management trends, chemical and manual treatments, cover crops, mulching, the use of sheep, weed management, biodiversity, and worker safety.
