Forestry and environmental change : socioeconomic and political dimensions : report no. 5 of the IUFRO Task Force on environmental change /

This book, which contains 14 chapters, considers the interactions between forestry and environmental (climatic) change, from social and economic perspectives. Topics discussed include: deforestation in temperate and tropical forests, the application of forest zoning as an alternative to multiple use...

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Other Authors:	Hickey, Gordon M. (Editor), Hoen, Hans Fredrik (Editor), Innes, John L. (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI Publishing, in association with The International Union of Forestry Research Organizations (IUFRO), 2005.
Series:	IUFRO research series ; 11.
Subjects:	Forest management. Forests and forestry > Environmental aspects. Forests and forestry > Social aspects. Forestry Economics, (New March 2000) Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology) Meteorology and Climate. Natural Resource Economics, (New March 2000) Pollution and Degradation. Silviculture and Forest Management. Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000) Capital. Certification. Climatic change. Deforestation. Forestry. Forests. Multiple use. Nature reserves. Socioeconomics. Sustainability. Tropical forests. Zoning. Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:

The changing context of forestry / J.L. Innes and H.F. Hoen
The emerging role of forest quality in setting perspectives in forest management / N. Dudley
Making value compromises in an efficient economy : efficiency as value dialogue / M.C. Farmer and A. Randall
An intergenerational perspective on effects of environmental changes : discounting the future's viewpoint / C. Price
Deforestation processes in temperate and tropical forests : an economic perspective / O. Hofstad
The application of forest zoning as an alternative to multiple-use forestry / C.R. Nitschke and J.L. Innes
Capital management : the forests in countries in transition : welfare impacts / P. Csóka
Certification of forest management and wood products / J.L. Innes and G.M. Hickey
How will new large-scale nature reserves in temperate and boreal forests affect the global structural wood products sector? / J.M. Perez-Garcia
The establishment of large-scale reserves in temperate and boreal forests : some experiences of the USA and prospects for Finland / R.A. Sedjo
The new planning approach and criteria used for sustainable forest management in Turkey / Ü. Asan
Application of criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management to a GIS-based multiple-criteria decision-making approach for forest conservation planning in the Kinabalu Region, Sabah, Malaysia / M.H. Phua and M. Minowa
Social revolutions in forest management / J. Romm
Recent developments in decision analysis for forest management / G.A. Mendoza.