Sustainable forestry : from monitoring and modelling to knowledge management and policy science /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2007.
• Subjects: Forest policy > Congresses.; Sustainable forestry > Congresses.; Forest management > Congresses.; Information and Documentation.; Policy and Planning.; Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology); Silviculture and Forest Management.; Mathematics and Statistics.; Forest inventories.; Forest management.; Forest policy.; Forestry.; Forests.; Information processing.; Mathematical models.; Monitoring.; Statistics.; Sustainability.; Electronic books.
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This book reviews the current state-of-the-art within each of the four major themes: science and policy; inventory and monitoring; statistics and modelling; and information and knowledge management, in the context of sustainable forestry. It fosters dialogue across thematic areas concerning both str...

Table of Contents:

• Science is endogenous to sustainable forestry - implications for scientists and policy makers / M.A. Shannon, G. Buttoud, and R. Päivinen
• Will linking science to policy lead to sustainable forestry? : lessons from the federal forests of the United States / K.N. Johnson
• Participation as a new mode of governance? : scientists and policymakers linked in a double spiral / I. Kouplevatskaya
• The European Union sustainable forest management and climate change mitigation policies from a transition country's perspective / M. Nijnik and L. Bizikova
• Application of criteria and indicators of sustainable resource management in the United States / A. Abee
• Indicators for biodiversity of tropical forests : problems and solutions / K. Rennolls and K. M. Reynolds
• Science-policy consultation as boundary spanning : the interaction of science and politics in two US bioregional assessments / M. Pregernig
• Cluster organization in forestry : supporting information and knowledge transfer in the practice, science and policy of sustainable forest management / T. Mrosek and A. Schulte
• Modelling public support for wildland fire policy / J.D. Absher and J.J. Vaske
• Analysing institutions and public perspectives to identify the future of British forests / M. Nijnik and A. Mather
• Economic conservation - Hill Holt Wood : the three legs of sustainability in practice / N. Lowthrop
• Measuring sustainability using the U.S. Forest Inventory and Analysis Program / C.T. Scott and W.H. McWilliams
• Vegetation diversity assessment in southern Belgium's permanent forest inventory / C. Sanchez, H. Claessens, T. Puissant, H. Lecomte and J. Rondeux
• PractiSFM - an operational multi-resource inventory protocol for sustainable forest management / F. Barrett, M.J. Somers and M. Nieuwenhuis
• The importance of forest stand-level inventory to sustain multiple forest values in the presence of endangered species / D.L. Johnson, K.N. Johnson and D.W. Hann
• Forest land change assessment by continuous inventory / P. Corona, E. Pompei and G. Scarascia Mugnozza
• A study on tree colonization of abandoned land in the Italian Alps : extent and some characteristics of new forest stands in Trentino / F. De Natale, P. Gasparini and A. Carriero
• Using spatial statistics to improve the primary forestry supply chain / J.D. Hamann and K. Boston
• Evaluation of commercial airborne LiDAR and SAR products to estimate top height and associated parameters in production forests in Britain / E.D. Wallington and J.C. Suárez
• Potential contributions of statistics and modelling to sustainable forest management : review and synthesis / K. Rennolls, M. Tomé, R.E. McRoberts, J.K. Vanclay, V. LeMay, B.T. Guan and G.Z. Gertner
• Modelling forest ecosystems : the Edinburgh forest model / J.H.M. Thornley
• Information and knowledge management for sustainable forestry / A.J. Thomson, H.M. Rauscher, D.L. Schmoldt and H. Vacik
• Integrating the DPSIR approach and the analytic network process for the assessment of forest management strategies / H. Vacik, B. Wolfslehner, R. Seidl and M.J. Lexer
• Establishment Management Information System [EMIS] : delivering good practice advice on tree establishment in the uplands of Britain / M.P. Perks, A.J. Harrison and S.J. Bathgate
• On chatbots and avatars - the virtual forester as a guide to knowledge about sustainable forest management / A. Reinbolz and M. Hanewinkel
• Information and knowledge management in support of sustainable forestry : a review / H.M. Rauscher, D.L. Schmoldt and H. Vacik
• How should we manage knowledge ecosystems? : using adaptive knowledge management! / A.J. Thomson
• An information retrieval system to support management of Habitats and Rare Priority and Protected Species (HaRPPS) in Britain / D. Ray and A.C. Broome
• Decision support for sustainable forestry : enhancing the basic rational model / H.R. Ekbia and K.M. Reynolds.