[PDF] Compatibility Between Wood Production And Other Values And Uses On Forest Lands eBook

Author : Charles E. Peterson
Publisher :
Page : 51 pages
File Size : 29,31 MB
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : Environmental responsibility
ISBN : 9780756737627

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This problem analysis examines the state of knowledge regarding compatibility between wood production (WP) and other values and to develop a framework for directing a Wood Compatibility Initiative that examines the central question: Can we as a society produce wood commodities and other forest values in an environmentally acceptable and sustainable manner? Forest policy issues are often framed as "jobs vs. the environment." The debate ignores the possibility that opportunities exist for compatible changes that can provide more of both. The challenge is to determine if, and at what level, timber harvest and other forest services and products can complement one another. Compatibility is seen as the degree to which we can manage for WP without impairing other values.

Author : Richard W. Haynes
Publisher :
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 21,70 MB
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780756732936

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In the debate over forest mgmt., many issues are portrayed as tradeoffs between biophysical & socioeconomic components of ecosystems. This portrayal ignores potential opportunities for compatible changes in outputs among alternative mgmt. strategies. In response, a research effort called the Wood Compatibility Initiative examines biophysical & socioeconomic compatibility of managed forests. This report discusses joint production & provides examples of compatible wood production (CWP) at each of 4 scales: stand, watershed-landscape, ecological province, & region level. Discusses the progress made toward understanding compatibility & presents a strategy for synthesizing the broad collection of research info. on CWP.

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Publisher :
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 19,36 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Forest management
ISBN :

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Balancing Ecosystem Values: Innovative Experiments for Sustainable Forestry is a compendium of more than 40 contributions from Asia, Europe, and North America. The theme encompasses experiments implemented at an operational scale to test ecological, social, or economic responses to silvicultural treatments designed to balance the complex set of objectives currently targeted in sustainable forest management. Several invited and plenary papers emphasize the variety of outcomes demanded by the public, as well as the essential role that these long-term studies will play in allowing natural resource managers to make better-informed, science-based decisions. A broad spectrum of silvicultural treatments and systems are covered, as are simulation runs with different types of models and discussion about design challenges for scaling up from stands to landscapes. Diverse forest ecosystems, stand structures and plant, animal, and fungal species are also considered. The conference included 2 days in the field where participants saw several types of the comprehensive field experiments firsthand. The conference concluded with a critique from state, private, and public land managers.

Author : Stewart Maginnis
Publisher : Earthscan
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 21,64 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1849771383

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'At last a really useful book telling us how all the rhetoric about ecosystem approaches and sustainable forest management is being translated into practical solutions on the ground? CLAUDE MARTIN, WWF INTERNATIONAL For too long, foresters have seen forests as logs waiting to be turned into something useful. This book demonstrates that forests in fact have multiple values, and managing them as ecosystems will bring more benefits to a greater cross-section of the public? JEFFREY A. MCNEELY, CHIEF SCIENTIST, IUCN This book demonstrates that ecosystem approaches and sustainable forest management] are neither alternative methods of forest management nor are they simply complicated ways of saying the same thing. They are both emerging concepts for more integrated and holistic ways of managing forests within larger landscapes in ways that optimize benefits to all stakeholders? ACHIM STEINER AND IAN JOHNSON, FROM THE FOREWORD Recent innovations in Sustainable Forest Management and Ecosystem Approaches are resulting in forests increasingly being managed as part of the broader social-ecological systems in which they exist. Forests in Landscapes reviews changes that have occurred in forest management in recent decades. Case studies from Europe, Canada, the United States, Russia, Australia, the Congo and Central America provide a wealth of international examples of innovative practices. Cross-cutting chapters examine the political ecology and economics of forest management, and review the information needs and the use and misuse of criteria and indicators to achieve broad societal goals for forests. A concluding chapter draws out the key lessons of changes in forest management in recent decades and sets out some thoughts for the future. This book is a must-read for practitioners, researchers and policy makers concerned with forests and land use. It contains lessons for all those concerned with forests as sources of people's livelihoods and as part of rural landscapes. Published with IUCN and PROFOR

Author : Robert A. Monserud
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9401703094

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Public debate has stimulated interest in finding greater compatibility among forest management regimes. The debate has often portrayed management choices as tradeoffs between biophysical and socioeconomic components of ecosystems. Here we focus on specific management strategies and emphasize broad goals such as biodiversity, wood production and habitat conservation while maintaining other values from forestlands desired by the public. We examine the following proposition: Commodity production (timber, nontimber forest products) and the other forest values (biodiversity, fish and wildlife habitat) can be simultaneously produced from the same area in a socially acceptable manner. Based on recent research in the Pacific Northwest, we show there are alternatives for managing forest ecosystems that avoid the divisive arena of 'either-or' choices. Much of the work discussed in this book addresses two aspects of the compatibility issue. First, how are various forest management practices related to an array of associated goods and services? Second, how do different approaches to forest management affect relatively large and complex ecosystems?