Criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management / edited by R. John Raison and Alan G. Brown and David W. Flinn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Raison, R. John (Robert John)

Brown, A. G. (Alan Gordon), 1931-

Flinn, David W.

Series:

IUFRO research series ; 7.

IUFRO research series ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable forestry.

Forest management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (476 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; New York, NY, USA : CABI Pub., c2001.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

There is increasing pressure on the forestry industry to adopt sustainable practices. This book reviews thinking about scientifically based indicators, and sustainable management of natural forests and plantations.

Contents:

Contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Application of Criteria and Indicators to Support Sustainable Forest Management: Some Key Issues; 3 Policy Inflation, Capacity Constraints: Can Criteria and Indicators Bridge the Gap?; 4 Between Voodoo Science and Adaptive Management: the Role and Research Needs for Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management; 5 'Whose Forest is this, Anyway?' Criteria and Indicators on Access to Resources; 6 Representing the Future: A Framework for Evaluating the Utility of Indicators in the Search for Sustainable Forest Management

7 SFM Indicators as Tools in Political and Economic Contexts: Actual and Potential Roles8 Legal Frameworks in Criteria and Indicator Approaches; 9 Collaborative Action and Technology Transfer as Means of Strengthening the Implementation of National-level Criteria and Indicators; 10 Inventory and Forecasting Productive Capacity for Natural Forests; 11 Indicators for Sustained Productive Capacity of New Zealand and Australian Plantation Forests; 12 Indicators to Guide Management for Multiple Forest Use; 13 Impacts of Environmental Stress on Forest Health: the Need for More Accurate Indicators

14 Guiding Concepts for the Application of Indicators to Interpret Change in Soil Properties and Processes in Forests 15 Catchment and Process Studies in Forest Hydrology: Implications for Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management; 16 The Role of Forests in the Global Carbon Cycle; 17 Ecosystem-level Forest Biodiversity and Sustainability Assessments for Forest Management; 18 Assessing the Success of Off-reserve Forest Management in Contributing to Biodiversity Conservation; 19 Spatial Patterns and Fragmentation: Indicators for Conserving Biodiversity in Forest Landscapes; 20 An Approach to Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management at the Sub-national Level in European Forestry; 21 Conclusions; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-280-81167-6

9786610811670

0-85199-892-5

OCLC:

476051436