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Temperate native forests in Chile: management, conservation and forest practices
Author: Chile's Native Forests
Author: Ken WilcoxPublisher: North Atlantic Books
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
"Chile's Native Forests: A Conservation Legacy" is a book about one of the wildest remaining temperate forest regions of the world, including the largest temperate rainforest outside of North America. All of the nation's major forest ecosystems are described. The work is richly illustrated with maps and photos, and includes brief histories of forest exploitation and conservation over the last 500 years. The book also shares what the many Chileans feel are the greatest threats to these wild forests, and what experts believe to be the highest priorities for conservation. "Chile's Native Forests" is an essential reference for those with an interest in forests and forest conservation in Chile or Latin America, for Chile-bound eco-travelers, or for anyone concerned about the future of the world's temperate forests.
Chile's Frontier Forests
Author: Eduardo NeiraPublisher: World Resources Inst
ISBN: 9781569734957
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 55
Book Description
Chile's frontier forests today face several urgent threats, such as illegal logging and unsustainable management practices. In this study, Global Forest Watch Chile found that of the roughly 30 per cent of forests classified as frontier forests, only a small area (27 per cent) is protected.
Sustainability of Temperate Forests
Author: Roger A. SedjoPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135893349
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 113
Book Description
RFF's Roger Sedjo and his colleagues discuss initiatives designed to promote and enhance sustainable forestry in temperate countries. While concerns about tropical deforestation are considerable, temperate forests account for the vast majority of the world's roundwood production and most global trade in wood and paper. Improving forest sustainability in such regions is imperative, economically and environmentally. This book illustrates how far nations have progressed, and how far they still need to go, in that effort. The authors describe how temperate nations address forest sustainability, discussing recent developments affecting forestry and trade. Their compilation of international data on forest practices and regulation provides a useful comparative perspective. They analyze the effect of institutional changes (e.g., new laws) on land management. The volume assesses how national forestry industries are adapting to new laws and policies in the face of new realities in production and markets, particularly in the context of international trade and global competition. Country profiles provide details on sustainability policy and performance in eight timber-exporting or major wood-using temperate nations: the United States, Canada, Finland, Sweden, Germany, France, New Zealand, and Chile. The authors also assess how each nation would be affected by the application of various criteria for sustainability.
Managing for Old-growth Conditions in Second-growth Temperate Rainforests of South-Central Chile
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The Llancahue watershed east of Valdivia, Chile (pop. 140,000) provides a glimpse of what the native forests in south-central Chile looked like before land clearing and conversion to exotic tree plantations. Federally protected since 1929, over 500 hectares of this 1,300-hectare watershed is old growth temperate rainforest. The Universidad Austral de Chile (UACH) acquired management authority over Llancahue from the Chilean government in September 2008. UACH has goals to manage the watershed for forest products, increased water yield, wildlife habitat, and recreational opportunities. In addition to old growth conservation, they also plan to manage some secondary stands to promote old growth conditions. The purpose of my research in Llancahue was to gain a better understanding of the native forests within its boundaries in order to develop recommendations for restoring old growth forest conditions in secondary stands. In 2007 and 2008, I measured 25 0.1-hectare plots throughout the watershed covering five forest subtypes delineated by UACH scientists using aerial photographs and GIS. I gathered data on overstory structure, understory composition, coarse woody debris, and tree growth rates and summarized it to characterize the differences between old growth and secondary forests. I then applied this data to the development of a silvicultural prescription to artificially advance forest succession within secondary stands.
Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia
Author: International Trade and Sustainability of the Chilean Forestry Sector
Author: Raúl O'RyanPublisher:
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Category : Forest products industry
Languages : en
Pages : 62
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Ecological Forest Management
Author: Jerry F. FranklinPublisher: Waveland Press
ISBN: 147863720X
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 688
Book Description
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. Ecological forest management (EFM) is focused on policies and practices that maintain the integrity of forest ecosystems while achieving environmental, economic, and cultural goals of human societies. EFM uses natural ecological models as its basis contrasting it with modern production forestry, which is based on agronomic models and constrained by required return-on-investment. Sections of the book consider: 1) Basic concepts related to forest ecosystems and silviculture based on natural models; 2) Social and political foundations of forestry, including law, economics, and social acceptability; 3) Important current topics including wildfire, biological diversity, and climate change; and 4) Forest planning in an uncertain world from small privately-owned lands to large public ownerships. The book concludes with an overview of how EFM can contribute to resolving major 21st century issues in forestry, including sustaining forest dependent societies.
Cross-sectoral Policy Developments in Forestry
Author: Yves C. DubéPublisher: CABI
ISBN: 184593251X
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Forestry practices are closely linked to decisions that address measures on climate change, biodiversity and the institutional framework for sustainable development. This book documents the progress made in creating the political, economic and social conditions that are necessary for a sustainable and multifunctional use of forest resources.
The Forest Sector
Author: Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821319178
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
Since 1978, when the World Bank published its policy paper on forestry, the world's understanding of and concern about the forest sector of the developing world has increased substantially. It has become clear that forests and woodlands play an even more important economic and ecological role than had earlier been recognized. In particular, the importance of tropical moist forests in protecting biological diversity has become more fully appreciated, as has their role in the carbon cycle and in global climatic change. The nature of the challenge; Deforestation and forest degradation; The growing demand for forests and trees for basic needs; Strategies for forest development; The role of the world bank; Challenges for the forest sector; Strategies for forest development; The role of the world bank.