Forestry and climate change /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2007.
• Subjects: Forests and forestry.; Climatic changes.; Forest microclimatology.; Forest ecology.; Forestry Economics, (New March 2000); Natural Resource Economics, (New March 2000); Policy and Planning.; Forests and Forest Trees (Biology and Ecology); Silviculture and Forest Management.; Meteorology and Climate.; Ecology (General); Climate.; Climatic change.; Environmental protection.; Forest administration.; Forest management.; Forest policy.; Forests.; Monitoring.; Sustainability.; Electronic books.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xv, 253 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, maps, charts; Also available in print format.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9781845932954 (ebook); 1845932951 (ebook)
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This book contains 28 chapters grouped into six sections providing information on forests interact with the other components of the physical and natural world with the human society, and how we could manage forests globally to make the most of their contribution to mitigation of climate change along with the established objective of sustainable management to maximize the full range of economic and non-market benefits which forests provide. Topics covered include: introduction on the interaction between forests and climate change; climate change, forestry and science-policy interface; forestry options for contributing to climate change mitigation; options for adaptation due to impacts of climate change on forests; current and future policy of national and international frameworks; and implications for future forestry and related environmental and development policy.