Forest Landscapes And Global Change

Author : João C. Azevedo,Ajith H. Perera,M. Alice Pinto
Publisher : Springer
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781493909537

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Forest Landscapes and Global Change by João C. Azevedo,Ajith H. Perera,M. Alice Pinto Pdf

Climate change, urban sprawl, abandonment of agriculture, intensification of forestry and agriculture, changes in energy generation and use, expansion of infrastructure networks, habitat destruction and degradation, and other drivers of change occur at increasing rates. They affect patterns and processes in forest landscapes, and modify ecosystem services derived from those ecosystems. Consequently, rapidly changing landscapes present many new challenges to scientists and managers. While it is not uncommon to encounter the terms “global change” and “landscape” together in the ecological literature, a global analyses of drivers of change in forest landscapes, and their ecological consequences have not been addressed adequately. That is the goal of this volume: an exploration of the state of knowledge of global changes in forested landscapes with emphasis on causes and effects, and challenges faced by researchers and land managers. Initial chapters identify and describe major agents of landscape change: climate, fire, and human activities. The next series of chapters address implications of changes on ecosystem services, biodiversity conservation and carbon flux. A chapter that describes methodologies of detecting and monitoring landscape changes is presented followed by chapter that highlights the many challenges forest landscape managers face amidst of global change. Finally, we present a summary and a synthesis of the main points presented in the book. Each chapter will contain the individual research experiences of chapter authors, augmented by review and synthesis of global scientific literature on relevant topics, as well as critical input from multiple peer reviewers.

Author : William Nikolakis,John L. Innes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781108471404

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The Wicked Problem of Forest Policy by William Nikolakis,John L. Innes Pdf

Provides a global analysis of policies to address deforestation, an important driver of climate change.

Author : Raffaele Lafortezza,Jiquan Chen,Giovanni Sanesi,Thomas R. Crow
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-08-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402085048

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Patterns and Processes in Forest Landscapes by Raffaele Lafortezza,Jiquan Chen,Giovanni Sanesi,Thomas R. Crow Pdf

Increasing evidence suggests that the composition and spatial configuration – the pattern – of forest landscapes affect many ecological processes, including the movement and persistence of particular species, the susceptibility and spread of disturbances such as fires or pest outbreaks, and the redistribution of matter and nutrients. Understanding these issues is key to the successful management of complex, multifunctional forest landscapes, and landscape ecology, based on a foundation of island bio-geography and meta-population dynamic theories, provides the rationale to deal with this pattern-to-process interaction at different spatial and temporal scales. This carefully edited volume represents a stimulating addition to the international literature on landscape ecology and resource management. It provides key insights into some of the applicable landscape ecological theories that underlie forest management, with a specific focus on how forest management can benefit from landscape ecology, and how landscape ecology can be advanced by tackling challenging problems in forest (landscape) management. It also presents a series of case studies from Europe, Asia, North America, Africa and Australia exploring the issues of disturbance, diversity, management, and scale, and with a specific focus on how human intervention affects forest landscapes and, in turn, how landscapes influence humans and their culture. An important reference for advanced students and researchers in landscape ecology, conservation biology, forest ecology, natural resource management and ecology across multiple scales, the book will also appeal to researchers and practitioners in reserve design, ecological restoration, forest management, landscape planning and landscape architecture.

Author : Ajith H. Perera,Lisa J. Buse,Thomas Crow
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387342435

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Forest Landscape Ecology by Ajith H. Perera,Lisa J. Buse,Thomas Crow Pdf

Landscape ecology has generated a wealth of knowledge that could enhance forest policy, but little of this knowledge has found its way into practice. This the first book to introduce landscape ecologists to the discipline of knowledge transfer. The book considers knowledge transfer in general, critically examines aspects that are unique to forest landscape ecology, and reviews case studies of successful applications for policy developers and forest managers in North America.

Author : Melissa Leach,Ian Scoones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781317579984

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Carbon Conflicts and Forest Landscapes in Africa by Melissa Leach,Ian Scoones Pdf

Amidst the pressing challenges of global climate change, the last decade has seen a wave of forest carbon projects across the world, designed to conserve and enhance forest carbon stocks in order to reduce carbon emissions from deforestation and offset emissions elsewhere. Exploring a set of new empirical case studies, Carbon Conflicts and Forest Landscapes in Africa examines how these projects are unfolding, their effects, and who is gaining and losing. Situating forest carbon approaches as part of more general moves to address environmental problems by attaching market values to nature and ecosystems, it examines how new projects interact with forest landscapes and their longer histories of intervention. The book asks: what difference does carbon make? What political and ecological dynamics are unleashed by these new commodified, marketized approaches, and how are local forest users experiencing and responding to them? The book’s case studies cover a wide range of African ecologies, project types and national political-economic contexts. By examining these cases in a comparative framework and within an understanding of the national, regional and global institutional arrangements shaping forest carbon commoditisation, the book provides a rich and compelling account of how and why carbon conflicts are emerging, and how they might be avoided in future. This book will be of interest to students of development studies, environmental sciences, geography, economics, development studies and anthropology, as well as practitioners and policy makers.

Author : Ajith H. Perera,Urmas Peterson,Guillermo Martínez Pastur,Louis R. Iverson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-03-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319745152

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Ecosystem Services from Forest Landscapes by Ajith H. Perera,Urmas Peterson,Guillermo Martínez Pastur,Louis R. Iverson Pdf

Over the last two decades, the topic of forest ecosystem services has attracted the attention of researchers, land managers, and policy makers around the globe. The services rendered by forest ecosystems range from intrinsic to anthropocentric benefits that are typically grouped as provisioning, regulating, supporting, and cultural. The research efforts, assessments, and attempts to manage forest ecosystems for their sustained services are now widely published in scientific literature. This volume focuses on broad-scale aspects of forest ecosystem services, beyond individual stands to large landscapes. In doing so, it illustrates the conceptual and practical opportunities as well as challenges involved with planning for forest ecosystem services across landscapes, regions, and nations. The goal here is to broaden the scope of land use planning through the adoption of a landscape-scale approach. Even though this approach is complex and involves multiple ecological, social, cultural, economic, and political dimensions, the landscape perspective appears to offer the best opportunity for a sustained provision of forest ecosystem services.

Author : Chao Li,Raffaele Lafortezza,Jiquan Chen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 3642127533

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Landscape Ecology in Forest Management and Conservation by Chao Li,Raffaele Lafortezza,Jiquan Chen Pdf

“Landscape Ecology in Forest Management and Conservation: Challenges and Solutions for Global Change” discusses how landscape ecology can contribute to addressing the challenges in contemporary forest management practice, with diverse contributions from active researchers worldwide. It provides not only a summary of conceptual understanding of landscape ecology as related to forest management but also a whole set of specific challenges, issues, and methods on how to deal with them. This book is a stimulating addition to the international literature on landscape ecology and land resource management at large. Dr. Chao Li is a Research Scientist with the Canadian Forest Service (CFS), Natural Resources Canada, and leads the Landscape Disturbances and Forest Valuation Modeling group. Dr. Raffaele Lafortezza is a Lecturer in forest landscape ecology at the University of Bari, Italy. Dr. Jiquan Chen is a Professor at the Department of Environmental Sciences, the University of Toledo, USA.

Author : David A. Coomes,David F. R. P. Burslem,William D. Simonson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781107783072

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Forests and Global Change by David A. Coomes,David F. R. P. Burslem,William D. Simonson Pdf

Forests hold a significant proportion of global biodiversity and terrestrial carbon stocks and are at the forefront of human-induced global change. The dynamics and distribution of forest vegetation determines the habitat for other organisms, and regulates the delivery of ecosystem services, including carbon storage. Presenting recent research across temperate and tropical ecosystems, this volume synthesises the numerous ways that forests are responding to global change and includes perspectives on: the role of forests in the global carbon and energy budgets; historical patterns of forest change and diversification; contemporary mechanisms of community assembly and implications of underlying drivers of global change; and the ways in which forests supply ecosystem services that support human lives. The chapters represent case studies drawn from the authors' expertise, highlighting exciting new research and providing information that will be valuable to academics, students, researchers and practitioners with an interest in this field.

Author : Deanna H. Olson,Beatrice Van Horne
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-20
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781610917674

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People, Forests, and Change by Deanna H. Olson,Beatrice Van Horne Pdf

Forests throughout the world are undergoing rapid, far-reaching change as a result of natural and anthropogenic disturbances. The challenge is to manage these forests in ways that avoid formulaic approaches to complex issues. This book takes on the challenge of balancing local economies, wood products, and biodiversity by proposing diverse new approaches to forest management using new research from the moist coniferous forests of the Pacific Northwest. --

Author : Anouschka R. Hof,Miguel Montoro Girona,Marie-Josee Fortin,Junior A. Tremblay
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889719761

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Using Landscape Simulation Models to Help Balance Conflicting Goals in Changing Forests by Anouschka R. Hof,Miguel Montoro Girona,Marie-Josee Fortin,Junior A. Tremblay Pdf

Author : John Stanturf,David Lamb,Palle Madsen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400753266

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Forest Landscape Restoration by John Stanturf,David Lamb,Palle Madsen Pdf

Restoration ecology, as a scientific discipline, developed from practitioners’ efforts to restore degraded land, with interest also coming from applied ecologists attracted by the potential for restoration projects to apply and/or test developing theories on ecosystem development. Since then, forest landscape restoration (FLR) has emerged as a practical approach to forest restoration particularly in developing countries, where an approach which is both large-scale and focuses on meeting human needs is required. Yet despite increased investigation into both the biological and social aspects of FLR, there has so far been little success in systematically integrating these two complementary strands. Bringing experts in landscape studies, natural resource management and forest restoration, together with those experienced in conflict management, environmental economics and urban studies, this book bridges that gap to define the nature and potential of FLR as a truly multidisciplinary approach to a global environmental problem. The book will provide a valuable reference to graduate students and researchers interested in ecological restoration, forest ecology and management, as well as to professionals in environmental restoration, natural resource management, conservation, and environmental policy.

Author : Carol J Pierce Colfer,Ravi Prabhu,Anne M Larson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1032053674

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Adaptive Collaborative Management in Forest Landscapes by Carol J Pierce Colfer,Ravi Prabhu,Anne M Larson Pdf

This book examines the value of Adaptive Collaborative Management for facilitating learning and collaboration with local communities and beyond, utilising detailed studies of forest landscapes and communities. Many forest management proposals are based on top-down strategies, such as the Million Tree Initiatives, Forest Landscape Restoration (FLR) and REDD+, often neglecting local communities. In the context of the climate crisis, it is imperative that local peoples and communities are an integral part of all decisions relating to resource management. Rather than being seen as beneficiaries or people to be safeguarded, they should be seen as full partners, and Adaptive Collaborative Management is an approach which priorities the rights and roles of communities alongside the need to address the environmental crisis. The volume presents detailed case studies and real life examples from across the globe, promoting and prioritizing the voices of women and scholars and practitioners from the Global South who are often under-represented. Providing concrete examples of ways that a bottom-up approach can function to enhance development sustainably, via its practitioners and far beyond the locale in which they initially worked, this volume demonstrates the lasting utility of approaches like Adaptive Collaborative Management that emphasize local control, inclusiveness and local creativity in management. This book will be of great interest to students, scholars and practitioners working in the fields of conservation, forest management, community development and natural resource management and development studies more broadly.

Author : Stephanie Mansourian,Daniel Vallauri
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387291123

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Forest Restoration in Landscapes by Stephanie Mansourian,Daniel Vallauri Pdf

This book, published in cooperation with WWF International, integrates the restoration of forest functions into landscape conservation plans. The contents represent the collective body of knowledge and experience of WWF and its many partners - collected here for the first time. This guide will serve as a first stop for practitioners and researchers in many organizations and regions, and as a key reference on the subject.

Author : Seppo Kellomaki
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781351678940

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Managing Boreal Forests in the Context of Climate Change by Seppo Kellomaki Pdf

In many places in the world, forests dominate landscapes and provide various products. Future climate change could profoundly alter the productivity of forest ecosystems and species composition. Until now, climate impact research has primarily focused on the likely impacts of rise in temperature, increased atmospheric CO2 concentration, and varying precipitation on unmanaged forests. The issue that now needs to be addressed is how to sustainably manage climate change for timber production and biomass. Though climate change is a global issue, impacts on forests depend on local environmental conditions and management methods, so this book will look at the issue under varying local contexts.

Author : Marla R. Emery,Donna M. Paananen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Forests and forestry
ISBN : MINN:31951D02995963H

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Humans, Forests, and Global Environmental Change by Marla R. Emery,Donna M. Paananen Pdf