Ecological forest management /
Franklin, Jerry F.,
Ecological forest management / Jerry F. Franklin, K. Norman Johnson, Debora L. Johnson. - xxv, 646 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sustaining forests and their benefits -- Understanding forests as ecosystems -- Forest dynamics: disturbances, developmental stages, and forest archetypes -- Silvicultural principles for ecological forestry -- Larger spatial-scale concerns: landscapes and regions -- Economic, social, and political drivers of forestry -- Legal frameworks for forestry -- Resolving forestry conflicts through collaboration -- Capital, income, and sustainability -- The economic value of forests -- Adaptive management: achieving resilience in the face of change and uncertainty -- Forests on fire: nature's thermal creativity / Christopher J. Dunn -- The fire next time: strategies for fire and fuels management / Christopher J. Dunn and Matthew P. Thompson -- Conserving and restoring biological diversity / Cristina Eisenberg -- Climate change, carbon, and forests -- Forest certification -- Classical forest regulation: its relevance to ecological forestry -- Making decisions: naturalistic and structured approaches -- Forest planning under ecological forestry -- The greatest good: planning the future of US National Forests -- Potential contributions of ecological forest management.
"Fundamental changes have occurred in all aspects of forestry over the last 50 years, including the underlying science, societal expectations of forests and their management, and the evolution of a globalized economy. This textbook is an effort to comprehensively integrate this new knowledge of forest ecosystems and human concerns and needs into a management philosophy that is applicable to the vast majority of global forest lands"--page 4 of cover.
9781478633501 1478633506
Forest management.
Forests and forestry--Ecology.
SD431 / .F73 2018
Ecological forest management / Jerry F. Franklin, K. Norman Johnson, Debora L. Johnson. - xxv, 646 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Sustaining forests and their benefits -- Understanding forests as ecosystems -- Forest dynamics: disturbances, developmental stages, and forest archetypes -- Silvicultural principles for ecological forestry -- Larger spatial-scale concerns: landscapes and regions -- Economic, social, and political drivers of forestry -- Legal frameworks for forestry -- Resolving forestry conflicts through collaboration -- Capital, income, and sustainability -- The economic value of forests -- Adaptive management: achieving resilience in the face of change and uncertainty -- Forests on fire: nature's thermal creativity / Christopher J. Dunn -- The fire next time: strategies for fire and fuels management / Christopher J. Dunn and Matthew P. Thompson -- Conserving and restoring biological diversity / Cristina Eisenberg -- Climate change, carbon, and forests -- Forest certification -- Classical forest regulation: its relevance to ecological forestry -- Making decisions: naturalistic and structured approaches -- Forest planning under ecological forestry -- The greatest good: planning the future of US National Forests -- Potential contributions of ecological forest management.
"Fundamental changes have occurred in all aspects of forestry over the last 50 years, including the underlying science, societal expectations of forests and their management, and the evolution of a globalized economy. This textbook is an effort to comprehensively integrate this new knowledge of forest ecosystems and human concerns and needs into a management philosophy that is applicable to the vast majority of global forest lands"--page 4 of cover.
9781478633501 1478633506
Forest management.
Forests and forestry--Ecology.
SD431 / .F73 2018