Sustainable Forests

Herausgeber: Sayer, Jeffrey; Petrokofsky, Gillian; Byron, Neil

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This four-volume set is edited by leading experts on the evolving role of forests in providing raw materials and environmental services to meet society's changing needs. It brings together a series of papers that have helped to shape thinking on forests as a key sustainable resource. The collection includes some classic papers but is mainly composed of more recent, cutting edge publications.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 2472
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 278mm x 152mm x 154mm
• Gewicht: 4422g
• ISBN-13: 9781844078523
• ISBN-10: 1844078523
• Artikelnr.: 33322269

Autorenporträt

Jeffrey Sayer is Professor of Conservation and Development at James Cook University, Queensland, Australia and a member of the Independent Science and Partnership Council of the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research. He was founding Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Indonesia. Neil Byron is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra in Australia. He was Commissioner of Australia's Productivity Commission with special responsibility for Environment and Natural Resources from 1998-2009, and before that Assistant Director General of the Center for International Forestry Research in Indonesia. Gillian Petrokofsky is the former Head of the Forestry section at CAB International and Editor of Forest Products Abstracts, and is now at the Biodiversity Institute, University of Oxford, UK. Associate Editors: Bas Arts is a Professor in the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University, Wageningen UR, The Netherlands. Paul Jarvis was Emeritus Professor of Forestry and Natural Resources at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Margaret Shannon is Coordinator of the European Forest Institute Program on Forest Policy and Economics Education and Research in Southeast Europe, based in Croatia. She is also a Professor at the Rubenstein School of Environment and Natural Resources, University of Vermont, USA, and Professor in Honor, Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Science, University of Freiburg, Germany. Douglas Sheil is currently a Professor in the School of Environment, Science and Engineering, Southern Cross University, Australia. He has been Director of the Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, Mbarara University of Science and Technology, Uganda and is also a Senior Research Associate with the Center for International Forest Research (CIFOR), Indonesia. Victor K. Teplyakov is a Professor in the Department of Forest Sciences, Seoul National University, Korea.

Inhaltsangabe

Volume 1: Forests, Landscapes and Conservation. Section 1: The State of the
World's Forest Landscapes. Section 2: Landscape-scale Processes. Section 3:
Assessing the Values of Forest Landscapes. Section 4: The Governance of
Forest Landscapes Section 5: The Future of Forest Landscapes. Volume 2:
Forests and the Biological, Chemical and Physical Environment. Section 1:
Tree and Forest Properties Section 2: Forest Production. Section 3: Forest
Energy and Water Exchange. Section 4: Tree and Forest Carbon Cycle. Section
5: Exchanges of Other Tropospheric Gases. Section 6: Forest Modelling.
Volume 3: Forests, People and Livelihoods. Section 1: Access and Tenure.
Section 2: Importance of Traditional and Indigenous Uses. Section 3:
Emerging Markets for Non-timber Forest Products. Section 4: Participation
and Gender. Section 5: Challenges in Implementing Community Forestry.
Section 6: Agroforestry, Small-holder Farm Forestry and Urban Forestry.
Volume 4: Forest Policy, Economics and Governance. Section 1: Politics and
Markets. Section 2: Property Rights. Section 3: Forests and National
Sovereignty - Decentralization and Devolution. Section 4: Economics.
Section 5: Legal and Institutional Dimensions. Section 6: Modes of
Governance.