Dear all,

A new book on a topic we like is available via the Earthscan Forest Library series. For more information, please use the link below!

Best wishes
/Bjorn

Björn Hånell
Professor of Silviculture
President International Peat Society (IPS)
Coordinator IUFRO Division 1 Silviculture
Dept of Forest Ecology and Management
SLU
SE-901 83 Umeå, Sweden
Phone: +46 90 7868297, 
FAX: +46 90 7868414
Cell:      +46 70 6898 478
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Managing Forests as Complex Adaptive Systems

Building Resilience to the Challenge of Global Change

Edited by Christian Messier, Klaus J. Puettmann, and K. David Coates

Series:The Earthscan Forest Library

This book links the emerging concepts of complexity, complex adaptive system (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and management. It explores how these concepts can be applied in various forest biomes of the world with their different ecological, economic and social settings, and history. Individual chapters stress different elements of these concepts based on the specific setting and expertise of the authors. Regions and authors have been selected to cover a diversity of viewpoints and emphases, from silviculture and natural forests to forest restoration, and from boreal to tropical forests.

The chapters show that there is no single generally applicable approach to forest management that applies to all settings. The first set of chapters provides a global overview of how complexity, CAS and resilience theory can benefit researchers who study forest ecosystems. A second set of chapters provides guidance for managers in understanding how these concepts can help them to facilitate forest ecosystem change and renewal (adapt or self-organize) in the face of global change while still delivering the goods and services desired by humans. The book takes a broad approach by covering a variety of forest biomes and the full range of management goals from timber production to forest restoration to promote the maintenance of biodiversity, quality of water, or carbon storage.

 

For list of contents and more information, seehttp://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415519779/

 


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