Forestry and environmental change : socioeconomic and political dimensions : report no. 5 of the IUFRO Task Force on environmental change / edited by J.L. Innes and G.M. Hickey ; and H.F. Hoen.

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Innes, J.L, [editor]

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TextSeries: IUFRO research series ; 11Publication details: Wallingford, UK : New York : CABI Pub. ; Vienna, Austria : In association with the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations, c2005.Description: viii, 265 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:

0851990029 (alk. paper)
9780851990026 (alk. paper)

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634.9/2 22

Contents:

The changing context of forestry / J.L. Innes and H.F. Hoen -- The emerging role of forest quality in setting perspectives in forest management / N. Dudley -- Making value compromises in an efficient economy : efficiency as value dialogue / M.C. Farmer and A. Randall -- An intergenerational perspective on effects of environmental changes : discounting the future's viewpoint / C. Price -- Deforestation processes in temperate and tropical forests : an economic perspective / O. Hofstad -- The application of forest zoning as an alternative to multiple-use forestry / C.R. Nitschke and J.L. Innes -- Capital management : the forests in countries in transition : welfare impacts / P. Csóka -- Certification of forest management and wood products / J.L. Innes and G.M. Hickey -- How will new large-scale nature reserves in temperate and boreal forests affect the global structural wood products sector? / J.M. Perez-Garcia -- The establishment of large-scale reserves in temperate and boreal forests : some experiences of the USA and prospects for Finland / R.A. Sedjo -- The new planning approach and criteria used for sustainable forest management in Turkey / Ü. Asan -- Application of criteria and indicators for sustainable forest management to a GIS-based multiple-criteria decision-making approach for forest conservation planning in the Kinabalu Region, Sabah, Malaysia / M.H. Phua and M. Minowa -- Social revolutions in forest management / J. Romm -- Recent developments in decision analysis for forest management / G.A. Mendoza.

Summary: This book, which contains 14 chapters, considers the interactions between forestry and environmental (climatic) change, from social and economic perspectives. Topics discussed include: deforestation in temperate and tropical forests, the application of forest zoning as an alternative to multiple use forestry, capital management, establishment of large-scale reserves in temperate and boreal forests, and social revolutions in forest management. This book will be of significant interest to those studying forestry, climate change and natural resource economics.

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This book, which contains 14 chapters, considers the interactions between forestry and environmental (climatic) change, from social and economic perspectives. Topics discussed include: deforestation in temperate and tropical forests, the application of forest zoning as an alternative to multiple use forestry, capital management, establishment of large-scale reserves in temperate and boreal forests, and social revolutions in forest management. This book will be of significant interest to those studying forestry, climate change and natural resource economics.