Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Foreword - the Global Forestry Challenge -- I: Introduction -- 1 Personal Introduction -- 2 Forests and Climate Change: the Knowledge-base for Action -- II: Climate Change, Forestry and the Science-Policy Interface -- 3 Present and Future Carbon Sources and Sinks -- 4 Global Forest Sector: Trends, Threats and Opportunities -- 5 Carbon Sequestration as a Forestry Opportunity in a Changing Climate -- 6 Forests and Climate Change: Global Understandings and Possible Responses -- 7 The Forest Science-Policy Interface -- III: Forestry Options for Contributing to Climate Change Mitigation -- 8 Causes of Gaps Between Perceived Potentials and Actual Implementation of Forest-sector Mitigation Activities -- 9 Forests Remove Carbon Dioxide from the Atmosphere: Spruce Forest Tales! -- 10 Afforestation, Reforestation and Reduced Deforestation to Sequester Carbon and Reduce Emissions -- 11 Energy and Fuelwood -- 12 Carbon in Wood Products and Product Substitution -- 13 Towards a High Resolution Forest Carbon Balance for Europe Based on Inventory Data -- 14 Forestry in Europe Under Changing Climate and Land Use -- IV: Impacts of Climate Change on Forests: Options for Adaptation -- 15 Soils and Waste Management: a Challenge to Climate Change -- 16 Impacts of Climate Change on Forest Soil Carbon: Principles, Factors, Models, Uncertainties -- 17 Direct Effects of Elevated Carbon Dioxide on Forest Tree Productivity -- 18 Impacts of Climate Change on Temperate Forests and Interaction with Management -- 19 Forest Responses to Global Change in North America: Interacting Forces Define a Research Agenda -- V: National and International Frameworks: Current and Future Policy -- 20. National Forest Monitoring Systems: Purposes, Options and Status -- 21. Conservation of Biodiversity in Boreal Forests: the Russian Experience.

22 International Forest Policy and Options for Climate Change Forest Policy in Developing Countries -- 23 Addressing Deforestation and Forest Degradation Through International Policy -- VI: Implications for Future Forestry and Related Environmental and Development Policy -- 24 Risks and Uncertainties -- 25 Governance and Climate Change -- 26 Response of the Forestry Sector -- 27 Commercial and Project-based Responses and Associated Research Initiatives in the Forest Sector -- 28 Forests and Climate Change: Conclusions and the Way Forward -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.