Sustainable Forest Management in a Changing World A European Perspec
With its 250-year history, Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) is now viewed as a model for managing forests worldwide. Yet despite the frequent use of the term there remain many questions concerning its meanings, criteria as well as its practical applica
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Peter Spathelf Editor
Sustainable Forest Management in a Changing World: a European Perspective
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Sustainable Forest Management in a Changing World
Managing Forest Ecosystems volume 19
Series Editors:
Klaus Gadow Georg-August-University, Göttingen, Germany
Timo Pukkala University of Joensuu, Joensuu, Finland and
Margarida Tomé Instituto Superior de Agronomía, Lisbon, Portugal Aims & Scope: Well-managed forests and woodlands are a renewable resource, producing essential raw material with minimum waste and energy use. Rich in habitat and species diversity, forests may contribute to increased ecosystem stability. They can absorb the effects of unwanted deposition and other disturbances and protect neighbouring ecosystems by maintaining stable nutrient and energy cycles and by preventing soil degradation and erosion. They provide much-needed recreation and their continued existence contributes to stabilizing rural communities. Forests are managed for timber production and species, habitat and process conservation. A subtle shift from multiple-use management to ecosystems management is being observed and the new ecological perspective of multi-functional forest management is based on the principles of ecosystem diversity, stability and elasticity, and the dynamic equilibrium of primary and secondary production. Making full use of new technology is one of the challenges facing forest management today. Resource information must be obtained with a limited budget. This requires better timing of resource assessment activities and improved use of multiple data sources. Sound ecosystems management, like any other management activity, relies on effective forecasting and operational control. The aim of the book series Managing Forest Ecosystems is to present state-of-the-art research results relating to the practice of forest management. Contributions are solicited from prominent authors. Each reference book, monograph or proceedings volume will be focused to deal with a specific context. Typical issues of the series are: resource assessment techniques, evaluating sustainability for even-aged and uneven-aged forests, multi-objective management, predicting forest development, optimizing forest management, biodiversity management and monitoring, risk assessment and economic analysis.
For other titles published in this series, go to www.springer.com/series/6247
Peter Spathelf Editor
Sustainable Forest Management in a Changing World A European Perspective
Editor Peter Spathelf University of Applied Sciences Eberswalde Faculty of Forest and Environment Alfred-Möller Str. 1 16225 Eberswalde Germany
ISBN 978-90-481-3300-0 e-ISBN 978-90-481-3301-7 DOI 10.1007/978-90-481-3301-7 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2009941303 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written
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