Description
In the context of forest sustainability, this book presents the issues related to both global climate change and conservation of biodiversity. It highlights four methodologies and shows how they contribute in overcoming the ecological challenges facing our world. The practical experience presented can be applied to the implementation of successful sustainable forestry policies.
Chapter
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