Contents

List of Contributors

Preface

Overview

Part I. Science and Policy

1 Science is Endogenous to Sustainable Forestry – Implications for Scientists and Policymakers

2 Will Linking Science to Policy Lead to Sustainable Forestry? Lessons from the Federal Forests of the United States

3 Participation as a New Mode of Governance? Scientists and Policymakers Linked in a Double Spiral

4 The European Union Sustainable Forest Management and Climate Change Mitigation Policies from a Transition Country’s Perspective

5 Application of Criteria and Indicators of Sustainable Resource Management in the United States

6 Indicators for Biodiversity of Tropical Forests: Problems and Solutions

7 Science–Policy Consultation as Boundary Spanning: the Interaction of Science and Politics in Two US Bioregional Assessments

8 Cluster Organization in Forestry: Supporting Information and Knowledge Transfer in the Practice, Science and Policy of Sustainable Forest Management

9 Modelling Public Support for Wildland Fire Policy

10 Analysing Institutions and Public Perspectives to Identify the Future of British Forests

11 Economic Conservation – Hill Holt Wood: the Three Legs of Sustainability in Practice

Part II. Inventory and Monitoring

12 Measuring Sustainability Using the US Forest Inventory and Analysis Program

13 Vegetation Diversity Assessment in Southern Belgium’s Permanent Forest Inventory

14 PractiSFM – an Operational Multi-resource Inventory Protocol for Sustainable Forest Management

15 The Importance of Forest Stand-level Inventory to Sustain Multiple Forest Values in the Presence of Endangered Species

16 Forest Land Change Assessment by Continuous Inventory

17 A Study on Tree Colonization of Abandoned Land in the Italian Alps: Extent and Some Characteristics of New Forest Stands in Trentino

18 Using Spatial Statistics to Improve the Primary Forestry Supply Chain

19 Evaluation of Commercial Airborne LiDAR and SAR Products to Estimate Top Height and Associated Parameters in Production Forests in Britain

Part III. Statistics and Modelling

20 Potential Contributions of Statistics and Modelling to Sustainable Forest Management: Review and Synthesis

21 Modelling Forest Ecosystems: the Edinburgh Forest Model

Part IV. Information and Knowledge Management

22 Information and Knowledge Management for Sustainable Forestry

23 Integrating the DPSIR Approach and the Analytic Network Process for the Assessment of Forest Management Strategies

24 Establishment Management Information System (EMIS): Delivering Good Practice Advice on Tree Establishment in the Uplands of Britain

25 On Chatbots and Avatars – the Virtual Forester as a Guide to Knowledge about Sustainable Forest Management

26 Information and Knowledge Management in Support of Sustainable Forestry: a Review

27 How should We Manage Knowledge Ecosystems? Using Adaptive Knowledge Management

28 An Information Retrieval System to Support Management of Habitats and Rare Priority and Protected Species (HaRPPS) in Britain

29 Decision Support for Sustainable Forestry: Enhancing the Basic Rational Model

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