Ebook: Sustainable Forest Management - Current Research

InTech, May 23, 2012. - 454 p. ISBN 978-953-51-0621-0.Sustainable forest management (SFM) is not a new concept. However, its popularity has increased in the last few decades because of public concern about the dramatic decrease in forest resources. The implementation of SFM is generally achieved using criteria and indicators (C&I) and several countries have established their own sets of C&I. This book summarises some of the recent research carried out to test the current indicators, to search for new indicators and to develop new decision-making tools. The book collects original research studies on carbon and forest resources, forest health, biodiversity and productive, protective and socioeconomic functions. These studies should shed light on the current research carried out to provide forest managers with useful tools for choosing between different management strategies or improving indicators of SFM.Contents.
Sustainable Forest Management: An Introduction and Overview.
The Quality of Detailed Land Cover Maps in Highly Bio-Diverse Areas: Lessons Learned from the Mexican Experience.
Sustainable Management of Lenga (Nothofagus pumilio) Forests Through Group Selection System.
Remote Monitoring for Forest Management in the Brazilian Amazon.
Case Study of the Effects of the Japanese Verified Emissions Reduction (J-VER) System on Joint Forest Production of Timber and Carbon Sequestration.
Cambial Cell Production and Structure of Xylem and Phloem as an Indicator of Tree Vitality: A Review.
Evaluating Abiotic Factors Related to Forest Diseases: Tool for Sustainable Forest Management.
A Common-Pool Resource Approach to Forest Health: The Case of the Southern Pine Beetle.
Ecological Consequences of Increased Biomass Removal for Bioenergy from Boreal Forests.
Soil Compaction - Impact of Harvesters' and Forwarders' Passages on Plant Growth.
Close-to-Nature Forest Management: The Danish Approach to Sustainable Forestry.
Ecological and Environmental Role of Deadwood in Managed and Unmanaged Forests.
Multiple Services from Alpine Forests and Policies for Local Development.
Economic Valuation of Watershed Services for Sustainable Forest Management: Insights from Mexico.
Market-Based Approaches Toward the Development of Urban Forest Carbon Projects in the United States.
Implementation of the U.S. Legal, Institutional, and Economic Criterion and Indicators for the 2010 Montreal Process for Sustainable Forest Management.
How Timber Harvesting and Biodiversity Are Managed in Uneven-Aged Forests: A Cluster-Sample Econometric Approach.
Models to Implement a Sustainable Forest Management - An Overview of the ModisPinaster Model.
The Effect of Harvesting on Mangrove Forest Structure and the Use of Matrix Modelling to Determine Sustainable Harvesting Practices in South Africa.
Individual-Based Models and Scaling Methods for Ecological Forestry: Implications of Tree Phenotypic Plasticity.
Decision Support Systems for Forestry in Galicia (Spain): SaDDriade.
Application of Multi-Criteria Methods in Natural Resource Management - A Focus on Forestry.
A Decision-Support Model for Regulating Black Spruce Site Occupancy Through Density Management.