Author: Cris BrackPublisher:
ISBN: 9783901347092
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
IUFRO Guidelines for Designing Multipurpose Resource Inventories
Author: Cris BrackPublisher:
ISBN: 9783901347092
Category : Conservation of natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Designing Multipurpose Resource Inventories Course
Author: Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Integrated Tools for Natural Resources Inventories in the 21st Century
Author: Mark H. HansenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forest surveys
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Advances in Forest Inventory for Sustainable Forest Management and Biodiversity Monitoring
Author: Piermaria CoronaPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401706492
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 435
Book Description
Forests represent a remnant wilderness of high recreational value in the densely populated industrial societies, a threatened natural resource in some regions of the world and a renewable reservoir of essential raw materials for the wood processing industry. In June 1992 the United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development (UNCED) in Rio de Janeiro initiated a world-wide process of negotiation with the aim of ensuring sustainable management, conservation and development of forest resources. Although there seems to be unanimous support for sustainable development from all quarters, there is no generally accepted set of indicators which allows comparisons to be made between a given situation and a desirable one. In a recent summary paper prepared by the FAO Forestry and Planning Division, Ljungman et al. (1999) find that forest resources continue to diminish, while being called upon to produce a greater range of goods and services and that calls for sustainable forest management will simply go unheeded if the legal, policy and administrative environment do not effectively control undesirable practices. Does the concept of sustainable forest management represent not much more than a magic formula for achieving consensus, a vague idea which makes it difficult to match action to rhetoric? The concept of sustainable forest management is likely to remain an imprecise one, but we can contribute to avoiding management practices that are clearly unsustainable.
Criteria and Indicators for Sustainable Forest Management
Author: Robert John RaisonPublisher: CABI
ISBN: 9780851998923
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
There is increasing pressure on the forestry industry to adopt sustainable practices, but a lack of knowledge about how to facilitate this, and how to measure sustainability. This book reviews current thinking about scientifically based indicators, and sustainable management of natural forests and plantations. Information is applicable to boreal, temperate and tropical biomes. The contents have been developed from papers presented at a IUFRO conference held in Australia, in order to develop a state-of the art report on this subject.
Comprehensive Regional Resource Assessments and Multipurpose Uses of Forest Inventory and Analysis Data, 1976 to 2001
Author: Victor A. RudisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Proceedings RMRS.
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
General Technical Report SRS
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
North American Science Symposium
Author: Forests And Forest Plants - Volume I
Author: John N. Owens Publisher: EOLSS Publications
ISBN: 1905839383
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 442
Book Description
Forests and Forest Plants is a component of Encyclopedia of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Engineering and Technology Resources in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. Forests are an essential part of Earth's life support systems. Forest resources are essential for humankind. They provide both vital goods and services. They provide food, fuel, shelter, soil and water protection, and filter the air we breathe. This publication on Forest and Forest Plants provides the user with such information as to create an awareness of the value of our forestlands and the products and environmental services they provide. The three volumes on Forests and Forest Plants are organized starting with first the necessity of : the World's Forest Resources – including classification and distribution of forest, urban forestry and agroforestry; Important Tree Species including trees in reclamation and arid zone forestry; Forests and Forest Products including wood and non word products; the Role of Forests in the Biosphere – preserving biological diversity, functions in the hydrological cycle, etc.; and Conservation and Breeding of Forest Trees – what is being done to improve our forest resources - silviculture, tree nurseries, and forest protection. The theme Forest and Forest Plants has led to the conclusion that there are substantial difficulties in matching environmental concerns and sustainability with an ever-increasing world population. Thus there is a tension between maximizing for food, wood and production on the one hand and implementing sustainable development and environmental protection on the other. These three volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers, NGOs and GOs.