Achieving sustainable management of tropical forests / edited by Jürgen Blaser and Pat D. Hardcastle.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Blase, Jürgen, editor.

Hardcastle, P. D., editor.

Series:

Burleigh Dodds series in agricultural science ; 80.

Burleigh dodds series in agricultural science ; 80.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Forest management.

Tropical forestry.

Tropics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxix, 716 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sawston, Cambridge, United Kingdom : Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing Limited, 2020.

Summary:

Although global rates of deforestation have started to decrease, they remain alarmingly high in many tropical countries. In light of this challenge, the growing importance of sustainable forest management (SFM) has been highlighted as a means for improving sustainability across the sector. Achieving sustainable management of tropical forests summarises and reviews the rich body of research on tropical forests and how this research can be utilised to make sustainable management of tropical forests a standard implementable strategy for the future. The book features expert discussions on the economic, political and environmental contexts needed for SFM to operate successfully, including coverage of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). With its distinguished editors and international array of expert authors, Achieving sustainable management of tropical forests will be a standard reference for researchers in tropical forest science, international and national organisations responsible for protection and responsible stewardship of tropical forests, as well as the commercial sector harvesting and using tropical forest products.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Achieving sustainable management of tropical forests

Contents

Series list

Preface

Introduction

Part 1 Challenges faced by tropical forests

Chapter 1 An overview of tropical forest formations

1 Introduction

2 The tropics: defining the enabling conditions for tropical forests

3 Classifying tropical forest formations

4 Structure and diversity of tropical forest ecosystems

5 Conclusion

6 References

Chapter 2 Pressures on tropical forests: agriculture, trade and illegality

2 Tropical forests and agriculture

3 Logging and tropical forests

4 Illegal logging and trade

5 Tackling illegal logging

6 Tackling deforestation in agricultural supply chains

7 Conclusion

8 Where to look for further information

9 References

Chapter 3 Narratives on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and tropical forests

2 The use of narratives as an analytical tool in forest management and policy analysis

3 The three narratives about the SDGs and forests

4 The SDGs and forest narratives and tropical forests

5 Conclusions

Chapter 4 National governance and tropical forests: key challenges

2 Competing definitions and characterisations of forest governance

3 The impact of poor forest governance

4 Global solutions to forest governance

5 Ownership and forest governance

6 Case study: governance regimes in the Congo Basin

7 Conclusions

8 Future trends

Annex 1 Diagnosis of tropical forest governance weaknesses

Annex 2 Examples of alleged abuses in tropical forest governance

Chapter 5 Climate change and tropical forests

2 Tropical forests and the global carbon cycle

3 Other climate effects of tropical forests

4 Changing climate in the tropics.

5 Climate change impacts on tropical forests

6 Future tropical forest management: mitigation and adaptation to climate change

7 Future trends

8 Conclusion

9 Where to look for further information

10 References

Part 2 Ecosystem services provided by tropical forests

Chapter 6 New types of products from tropical wood

2 Tropical forest wood products

3 Plantation forest resources

4 Non-wood forest products: bamboo and rattan

5 Plantation timber product development and wood species

6 Plantation biomass and waste: oil palm and kenaf

7 Plantation biomass and waste: sugarcane and rice

8 Developments in wood products

9 Biomass energy and co-generation

10 Wood-based biofuels

11 Conclusions

12 Where to look for further information

13 References

Chapter 7 Non-timber forest products from tropical forests

2 Non-timber forest products (NTFPs) and rural livelihoods

3 Ecological impact of non-timber forest products (NTFPs)

4 Socioeconomic benefits of non-timber forest products (NTFPs)

6 Where to look for further information

7 References

Chapter 8 Ecosystem services delivered by tropical forests: regulating services of tropical forests for climate and hydrological cycles

2 Forest-climate interactions

3 Forests in the carbon cycle

4 Climate change mitigation in the forestry and timber sector

5 Forests in the water cycle (regional scale)

6 Summary and future trends

7 Where to look for further information

8 References

Chapter 9 Biodiversity and ecosystem services in tropical forests: recent findings and implications for sustainable forest management (SFM)

2 The importance of tropical forests as repositories of biodiversity.

3 Recent research on biodiversity and ecosystem services from tropical forests

4 The main threats to tropical forest biodiversity

5 Synthesis and conclusion

Chapter 10 Amenity and recreation values of tropical forests: an ecosystem services perspective

2 The importance of ecosystem services

3 Overexploitation of forest ecosystem services (ESS)

4 Valuing recreational and amenity services of tropical forests

5 Innovative approaches to recreation and amenity ESS

6 Improving forest-based recreation activities: options and challenges

Part 3 Management structures to support sustainable forest management (SFM)

Chapter 11 Defining sustainable forest management (SFM) in the tropics

2 Evolving concepts of sustainability

3 Appropriate scales for assessment of SFM

4 SFM trade-offs at different scales

5 Defining terms in SFM

6 Land-use types in SFM

7 Challenges for SFM in the tropics

8 Ways forward

Chapter 12 Improving operating standards in sustainable forest management of tropical forests in Africa

2 Deforestation in Africa

3 The need for sustainable forest management in Africa

4 Improving operating standards in sustainable forest management

Chapter 13 The role of certification schemes in sustainable forest management (SFM) of tropical forests

2 The need for change

3 Responses to the introduction of forest certification

4 The development of forest certification

5 Rates and spread of certification

6 Assessing the impact of forest certification

9 References.

Chapter 14 Tenure and management rights in tropical forests

2 Trends in 33 lowand middle-income countries (LMICs) in Africa, Asia and Latin America

3 Regional trends

4 Implications

Chapter 15 Community-based management of tropical forests: lessons learned and implications for sustainable forest management

2 The evolution of community-based forest management (CBFM)

3 How does CBFM work?

4 Community forestry and livelihoods

5 Factors affecting the success or failure of CBFM

6 Designing and implementing CBFM

7 How CBFM can be integrated into international forest policy

Part 4 Monitoring and management techniques in sustainable forest management (SFM)

Chapter 16 New techniques for assessingand mapping tropical forests

2 Inventory objectives

3 Remote sensing to detect changes in land use

4 Remote sensing to detect logging activities and forest degradation

5 assessments for forest inventories

6 Uncertainty assessment and error analysis

7 Planning a forest inventory

8 Data collection, analysis, and reporting

9 Future trends

10 Where to look for further information

11 References

Chapter 17 Advances in monitoring and reporting forest emissions and removals in the context of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)

2 Summary of UNFCCC FREL/FRLs

3 Summary of REDD+ results reported to the UNFCCC

4 Outlook: what's next on MRV for forests?

5 References

Chapter 18 Understanding and exploiting genetics of tropical tree species for restoration of tropical forests

2 Methods to measure genetic diversity: field trials and tree improvement.

3 Methods to measure genetic diversity: molecular markers

4 DNA barcoding

5 Genetic studies to investigate reproductive systems

6 Case studies: figs, dipterocarps, teak and eucalypts

7 Summary and future trends

Chapter 19 Pathogens in tropical forests: diversity and management

2 Root diseases

3 Stem diseases

4 Wilt diseases

5 Foliage pathogens

6 Virus diseases

7 Nematodes

8 Algae and parasitic plants

9 Disease management

11 Acknowledgements

12 References

Chapter 20 The role of agroforestry in sustainable forest management (SFM) of tropical forests

2 Extent and biodiversity of shifting cultivation landscapes

3 The productive function of shifting cultivation landscapes

4 Carbon capture in shifting cultivation landscapes

5 Implications of intensifying shifting cultivation

6 Summary

7 Acknowledgements

Part 5 SFM of different types of tropical forest

Chapter 21 Forest landscape restoration (FLR) of tropical forests

2 Implementing forest landscape restoration (FLR)

3 Case studies

4 Challenges and opportunities in taking FLR forward

Chapter 22 Sustainable management of tropical plantation forests

2 Sustainability issues in tropical forest plantations: productivity and nutrient cycles

3 Sustainability issues in tropical forest plantations: biodiversity conservation

4 Sustainability of ecosystem services provision in tropical plantations

5 Sustainability of social impacts of tropical forest plantations.

6 Measures to achieve sustainable tropical forest plantations management.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-78676-251-X

1-78676-250-1

1-003-04754-8

9781003047544

OCLC:

1202423498