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Sustainable Forestry : From Monitoring and Modelling to Knowledge Management and Policy Science.
Title:
Sustainable Forestry : From Monitoring and Modelling to Knowledge Management and Policy Science.
Author:
Reynolds, K.
ISBN:
9781845931759
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (551 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- List of Contributors -- Preface -- Overview -- Part I. Science and Policy -- 1 Science is Endogenous to Sustainable Forestry - Implications for Scientists and Policymakers -- 2 Will Linking Science to Policy Lead to Sustainable Forestry? Lessons from the Federal Forests of the United States -- 3 Participation as a New Mode of Governance? Scientists and Policymakers Linked in a Double Spiral -- 4 The European Union Sustainable Forest Management and Climate Change Mitigation Policies from a Transition Country's Perspective -- 5 Application of Criteria and Indicators of Sustainable Resource Management in the United States -- 6 Indicators for Biodiversity of Tropical Forests: Problems and Solutions -- 7 Science-Policy Consultation as Boundary Spanning: the Interaction of Science and Politics in Two US Bioregional Assessments -- 8 Cluster Organization in Forestry: Supporting Information and Knowledge Transfer in the Practice, Science and Policy of Sustainable Forest Management -- 9 Modelling Public Support for Wildland Fire Policy -- 10 Analysing Institutions and Public Perspectives to Identify the Future of British Forests -- 11 Economic Conservation - Hill Holt Wood: the Three Legs of Sustainability in Practice -- Part II. Inventory and Monitoring -- 12 Measuring Sustainability Using the US Forest Inventory and Analysis Program -- 13 Vegetation Diversity Assessment in Southern Belgium's Permanent Forest Inventory -- 14 PractiSFM - an Operational Multi-resource Inventory Protocol for Sustainable Forest Management -- 15 The Importance of Forest Stand-level Inventory to Sustain Multiple Forest Values in the Presence of Endangered Species -- 16 Forest Land Change Assessment by Continuous Inventory -- 17 A Study on Tree Colonization of Abandoned Land in the Italian Alps: Extent and Some Characteristics of New Forest Stands in Trentino.

18 Using Spatial Statistics to Improve the Primary Forestry Supply Chain -- 19 Evaluation of Commercial Airborne LiDAR and SAR Products to Estimate Top Height and Associated Parameters in Production Forests in Britain -- Part III. Statistics and Modelling -- 20 Potential Contributions of Statistics and Modelling to Sustainable Forest Management: Review and Synthesis -- 21 Modelling Forest Ecosystems: the Edinburgh Forest Model -- Part IV. Information and Knowledge Management -- 22 Information and Knowledge Management for Sustainable Forestry -- 23 Integrating the DPSIR Approach and the Analytic Network Process for the Assessment of Forest Management Strategies -- 24 Establishment Management Information System (EMIS): Delivering Good Practice Advice on Tree Establishment in the Uplands of Britain -- 25 On Chatbots and Avatars - the Virtual Forester as a Guide to Knowledge about Sustainable Forest Management -- 26 Information and Knowledge Management in Support of Sustainable Forestry: a Review -- 27 How should We Manage Knowledge Ecosystems? Using Adaptive Knowledge Management -- 28 An Information Retrieval System to Support Management of Habitats and Rare Priority and Protected Species (HaRPPS) in Britain -- 29 Decision Support for Sustainable Forestry: Enhancing the Basic Rational Model -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.
Abstract:
In the context of forest sustainability, this book presents the issues related to both global climate change and conservation of biodiversity. It highlights four methodologies and shows how they contribute in overcoming the ecological challenges facing our world. The practical experience presented can be applied to the implementation of successful sustainable forestry policies.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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