Forest Futures

Author : Hamish Kimmins,Kim Scoullar,Brad Seely,Juan A. Blanco,Clive Welham
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781849776431

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Forecasting Forest Futures by Hamish Kimmins,Kim Scoullar,Brad Seely,Juan A. Blanco,Clive Welham Pdf

Modelling is an important tool for understanding the complexity of forest ecosystems and the variety of interactions of ecosystem components, processes and values. This book describes the hybrid approach to modelling forest ecosystems and their possible response to natural and management-induced disturbance. The book describes the FORECAST family of ecosystem management models at three different spatial scales (tree, stand and landscape), and compares them with alternative models at these three spatial scales. The book will help forest managers to understand what to expect from ecosystem-based forest models; serve as a tool for use in teaching about sustainability, scenario analysis and value trade-offs in natural resources management; and assist policy makers, managers and researches working in assessment of sustainable forest management and ecosystem management. Several real-life examples of using the FORECAST family of models in forest management and other applications are presented from countries including Canada, China, Spain and the USA, to illustrate the concepts described in the text. The book also demonstrates how these models can be extended for scenario and value trade-off analysis through visualization and educational or management games.

Author : Karen Arabas,Joe Bowersox
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 074253135X

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Forest Futures by Karen Arabas,Joe Bowersox Pdf

The 15 original essays written by leading scientists, policy analysts, public lands managers, and advocates addresses four related issues regarding the future of our nation's forests: ideas and practices of sustainable forestry; science and policymaking; threatened and endangered species protection on forested lands; and the future of public forest lands management in the Pacific Northwest. Though the focus of the essays is regional, the co-editors' introduction and conclusion will make connections between the Northwest forests as a case study and scientific and policy dilemmas generally.

Author : David N. Wear
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : UOM:39015087429778

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The Southern Forest Futures Project by David N. Wear Pdf

The Southern Forest Futures Project has been designed to evaluate the implications of potential futures for the many goods and services forests in the Southeastern United States provide. To ensure that the Futures Project is comprehensive and relevant, we have begun with a thorough scoping of issues using a process that elicits input from various interested publics. We have held public meetings in 14 locations around the South and through 3 online "Webinars." The meeting sites provided at least two public meetings in each of five ecological subregions and no fewer than one public meeting in each State. We gathered > 2,200 comments using a structured-workshop format and processed the compiled data to define a comprehensive view of how forces of change may reshape forests, and how these changes could affect the various goods, services, and values of forest ecosystems. We also identified a set of meta-issues that warrant indepth analysis to evaluate their potential influence on the future of forests. These topics of concern include bioenergy, climate change, forest ownership change, invasive species, fire, taxes, and water. The input on meta-issues, forces of change, and resource implications will be used to organize subsequent stages of the Southern Forest Futures Project.

Author : Hamish Kimmins,Juan A. Blanco,Brad Seely,Clive Welham,Kim Scoullar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-23
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136532153

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Forecasting Forest Futures by Hamish Kimmins,Juan A. Blanco,Brad Seely,Clive Welham,Kim Scoullar Pdf

Modelling is an important tool for understanding the complexity of forest ecosystems and the variety of interactions of ecosystem components, processes and values. This book describes the hybrid approach to modelling forest ecosystems and their possible response to natural and management-induced disturbance. The book describes the FORECAST family of ecosystem management models at three different spatial scales (tree, stand and landscape), and compares them with alternative models at these three spatial scales. The book will help forest managers to understand what to expect from ecosystem-based forest models; serve as a tool for use in teaching about sustainability, scenario analysis and value trade-offs in natural resources management; and assist policy makers, managers and researches working in assessment of sustainable forest management and ecosystem management. Several real-life examples of using the FORECAST family of models in forest management and other applications are presented from countries including Canada, China, Spain and the USA, to illustrate the concepts described in the text. The book also demonstrates how these models can be extended for scenario and value trade-off analysis through visualization and educational or management games.

Author : J. P. Kimmins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781844079223

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Forecasting Forest Futures by J. P. Kimmins Pdf

First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Hamish Kimmins,Juan A. Blanco
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-07
Category : Forest ecology
ISBN : 1138866946

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Forecasting Forest Futures by Hamish Kimmins,Juan A. Blanco Pdf

Modelling is an important tool for understanding the complexity of forest ecosystems and the variety of interactions of ecosystem components, processes and values. This book describes the hybrid approach to modelling forest ecosystems and their possible response to natural and management-induced disturbance. The book describes the FORECAST family of ecosystem management models at three different spatial scales (tree, stand and landscape), and compares them with alternative models at these three spatial scales. The book will help forest managers to understand what to expect from ecosystem-based forest models; serve as a tool for use in teaching about sustainability, scenario analysis and value trade-offs in natural resources management; and assist policy makers, managers and researches working in assessment of sustainable forest management and ecosystem management. Several real-life examples of using the FORECAST family of models in forest management and other applications are presented from countries including Canada, China, Spain and the USA, to illustrate the concepts described in the text. The book also demonstrates how these models can be extended for scenario and value trade-off analysis through visualization and educational or management games.

Author : Pacific Forestry Centre
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Forest health
ISBN : MINN:31951D02393715G

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Possible Forest Futures by Pacific Forestry Centre Pdf

Author : Francis E Putz,Claudia Romero
Publisher : CIFOR
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9786023870165

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Futures of tropical production forests by Francis E Putz,Claudia Romero Pdf

Forests are landscape-embedded complex systems with fates determined by multitudes of changing and interacting factors that are sectoral and extra-sectoral, biophysical and political, predictable and chaotic. The diversity of forest states (e.g. secondary, degraded, fragmented, invaded and managed) and the fact that none of these states is permanent gives reason for hope; even deforestation need not be permanent. With so many forest values recognized to different degrees by different people, the future of tropical production forests is likely to represent an ever-changing mosaic of a gradient of forested-type landscapes. To assure that this future is as environmentally, socioeconomically and politically sound as possible, researchers need to synthesize and evaluate what is known and then build on that knowledge while they continue learning. There is a critical need for interdisciplinary research at appropriate scales with the best designs possible to capture the impacts of relevant silvicultural treatments on the full range of response variables

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1417515623

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Forest Futures by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bijan Payandeh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Forestry innovations
ISBN : MINN:31951D01271097H

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Forestry Futures by Bijan Payandeh Pdf

The main theme of the joint workshop was forest futures, an objective look at the future of forestry research, with emphasis on growth and yield as related to sustainable forest management. Delegates representing Forestry Canada, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources, the U.S. Forest Service, and various university forestry faculties attended the workshop. This document presents the papers, abstracts of posters, and the business meeting. A list of participants is included.

Author : Antje Linkenbach
Publisher : Seagull Books
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Nature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131745874

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Forest Futures by Antje Linkenbach Pdf

"Antje Linkenbach persuasively argues that global representation took away narrative control from local actors and removed Chipko from the specificity of its locale, from its village contexts. She attempts to relocate forest issues and struggles by revisiting the perspectives of leading activists and local residents and discusses prominent representations of Chipko in relation to local histories of resistance, local representational contestations, and local forest practices - all set against a backdrop of local reflections on Chipko and its aftermath. It is of ultimate importance that the issues of forest control and sustainable forest use be seen in the context of concerns about social and economic development, regional autonomy, and imaginations of preferred futures among people actually resident in the region." "Built on an impressive edifice of fieldwork, this volume will be of interest for ecologists, environmental historians, social anthropologists, and political scientists."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Ge Sun,James M. Vose
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9783038425755

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Forest Management and Water Resources in the Anthropocene by Ge Sun,James M. Vose Pdf

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Forest Management and Water Resources in the Anthropocene" that was published in Forests

Author : Mary Roddis Connor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Forest conservation
ISBN : MINN:31951D01922726O

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Forestry Futures and Conservation Misconcepts by Mary Roddis Connor Pdf

Author : John R. Nolon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521862172

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Compendium of Land Use Laws for Sustainable Development by John R. Nolon Pdf

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Author : Devendra Amatya,Thomas Williams,Leon Bren,Carmen de Jong
Publisher : CABI
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-14
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781780646602

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Forest Hydrology by Devendra Amatya,Thomas Williams,Leon Bren,Carmen de Jong Pdf

Forests cover approximately 26% of the world's land surface area and represent a distinct biotic community. They interact with water and soil in a variety of ways, providing canopy surfaces which trap precipitation and allow evaporation back into the atmosphere, thus regulating how much water reaches the forest floor as through fall, as well as pull water from the soil for transpiration. The discipline "forest hydrology" has been developed throughout the 20th century. During that time human intervention in natural landscapes has increased, and land use and management practices have intensified. The book will be useful for graduate students, professionals, land managers, practitioners, and researchers with a good understanding of the basic principles of hydrology and hydrologic processes.