TY - BOOK AU - Franklin,Jerry F. AU - Johnson,K.Norman AU - Johnson,Debora L. TI - Ecological forest management SN - 9781478633501 AV - SD431 .F73 2018 PY - 2018///] CY - Long Grove, Illinois PB - Waveland Press, Inc. KW - Forest management KW - Forests and forestry KW - Ecology N1 - 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 N2 - "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 ER -