Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management

Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management

ISBN-10:
0851993923
ISBN-13:
9780851993928
Pub. Date:
08/01/2001
Publisher:
CABI
ISBN-10:
0851993923
ISBN-13:
9780851993928
Pub. Date:
08/01/2001
Publisher:
CABI
Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management

Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management

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Overview

There is increasing pressure on the forestry industry to adopt sustainable practices, but there is a lack of knowledge about how to facilitate this, and how to measure sustainability. This book reviews current thinking about scientifically based indicators, and sustainable management of natural forests and plantations. Information is applicable to both plantations and natural forests in boreal, temperate and tropical biomes. The contents have been developed from papers presented at a IUFRO conference held in Australia, August 1998.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780851993928
Publisher: CABI
Publication date: 08/01/2001
Series: IUFRO Research Series , #7
Pages: 427
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products

CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products

Centre for Forest Tree Technology

Table of Contents

Contributorsix
Acknowledgementsxiii
1Introduction1
2Application of Criteria and Indicators to Support Sustainable Forest Management: Some Key Issues5
3Policy Inflation, Capacity Constraints: Can Criteria and Indicators Bridge the Gap?19
4Between Voodoo Science and Adaptive Management: the Role and Research Needs for Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management39
5'Whose Forest is this, Anyway?' Criteria and Indicators on Access to Resources67
6Representing the Future: A Framework for Evaluating the Utility of Indicators in the Search for Sustainable Forest Management93
7SFM Indicators as Tools in Political and Economic Contexts: Actual and Potential Roles107
8Legal Frameworks in Criteria and Indicator Approaches131
9Collaborative Action and Technology Transfer as Means of Strengthening the Implementation of National-level Criteria and Indicators145
10Inventory and Forecasting Productive Capacity for Natural Forests165
11Indicators for Sustained Productive Capacity of New Zealand and Australian Plantation Forests183
12Indicators to Guide Management for Multiple Forest Use199
13Impacts of Environmental Stress on Forest Health: the Need for More Accurate Indicators215
14Guiding Concepts for the Application of Indicators to Interpret Change in Soil Properties and Processes in Forests231
15Catchment and Process Studies in Forest Hydrology: Implications for Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management259
16The Role of Forests in the Global Carbon Cycle311
17Ecosystem-level Forest Biodiversity and Sustainability Assessments for Forest Management341
18Assessing the Success of Off-reserve Forest Management in Contributing to Biodiversity Conservation379
19Spatial Patterns and Fragmentation: Indicators for Conserving Biodiversity in Forest Landscapes391
20An Approach to Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management at the Sub-national Level in European Forestry423
21Conclusions441
Index445
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