Book ID: 93845
Sayer, Jeffrey, Stewart Maginnis and Michelle Laurie (eds.)
Forests in Landscapes. Ecosystem Approaches to Sustainability. 2007. 280 p. gr8vo. Paper bd.
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. Forestsin 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 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.