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"David Barton Bray has spent more than thirty years researching and studying Mexican Community Forestry Enterprises (CFEs). In this book he shares the scientific evidence for Mexico's social and environmental achievements and how, in its most successful manifestations, it became a global model for common property forest management, sustainable social-ecological systems, and climate change mitigation in developing countries"-- Provided by publisher.

Japanese colonial rule in Korea (1905-1945) ushered in natural resource management programs that profoundly altered access to and ownership of the peninsula's extensive mountains and forests. Under the banner of "forest love, " the colonial government set out to restructure the rhythms and routines of agrarian life, targeting everything from home heating to food preparation. Timber industrialists, meanwhile, channeled Korea's forest resources into supply chains that grew in tandem with Japan's imperial sphere. These mechanisms of resource control were only fortified after 1937, when the peninsula and its forests were mobilized for total war. In this wide-ranging study David Fedman explores Japanese imperialism through the lens of forest conservation in colonial Korea-a project of environmental rule that outlived the empire itself. Holding up for scrutiny the notion of conservation, Seeds of Control examines the roots of Japanese ideas about the Korean landscape, as well as the consequences and aftermath of Japanese approaches to Korea's "greenification." Drawing from sources in Japanese and Korean, Fedman writes colonized lands into Japanese environmental history, revealing a largely untold story of green imperialism in Asia.
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This publication seeks to provide a practical approach to the process of integrating climate change into national forest programmes. The aim is to assist senior officials in government administrations and the representatives of other stakeholders, including civil society organizations and the private sector, to prepare the forest sector for the challenges and opportunities posed by climate change. This document complements a set of guidelines prepared by FAO in 2013 to support forest managers in incorporating climate change considerations into forest management plans and practices.
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• List of tables, maps and illustrations Abbreviations Acknowledgements Map of countries and percentage of forest cover in 2000 Introduction: State Forestry in Northern Europe Richard Hoelzl and K. Jan Oosthoek
• Chapter 1. Forestry in Germany, c1550-2000 Bernd-Stefan Grewe and Richard Hoelzl
• Chapter 2. State Forestry in the Netherlands: from Liberalism to Nature Creation K. Jan Oosthoek
• Chapter 3. State forestry in Belgium since the End of the Eighteenth Century Pierre-Alain Tallier, Hilde Verboven, Kris Vandekerkhove, Hans Baete and Kris Verheyen
• Chapter 4. Origins and Development of State Forestry in the United Kingdom K. Jan Oosthoek
• Chapter 5. State and Forestry in the Denmark from the Late Eighteenth to the Early Twenty First Centuries Bo Fritzboger
• Chapter 6. State Forestry in Norway Lars Helge Frivold and Asbjorn Svendsrud
• Chapter 7. Swedish State Forestry, 1790-2000 Per Eliasson and Erik Tornlund
• Chapter 8. Finnish Forestry in a Long-term Perspective Heikki Roiko-Jokela
• Chapter 9. The History of State Forests and Forestry in Poland Anna Majchrowska Conclusion: National Histories, Shared Legacies: State forestry in Northern Europe in comparison Richard Hoelzl and K. Jan Oosthoek Glossary of terms Bibliograhpy Index.
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Northern Europe was, by many accounts, the birthplace of much of modern forestry practice, and for hundreds of years the region's woodlands have played an outsize role in international relations, economic growth, and the development of national identity. Across eleven chapters, the contributors to this volume survey the histories of state forestry policy in Scandinavia, the Low Countries, Germany, Poland, and Great Britain from the early modern period to the present. Each explores the complex interrelationships of state-building, resource management, knowledge transfer, and trade over a period characterized by ongoing modernization and evolving environmental awareness.
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• The beast awakens
• Inside the mind of a wildfire
• A history of fire suppression
• Visions of the Pyrocene
• Water on fire
• The big smoke
• Drought, disease, insects, and wildfire
• Fire on ice
• Agent of change
• Resilience and recovery.

For two months in the spring of 2016, the world watched as wildfire ravaged the Canadian town of Fort McMurray. Firefighters named the fire "the Beast." It acted like a mythical animal, alive with destructive energy, and they hoped never to see anything like it again. Yet it's not a stretch to imagine we will all soon live in a world in which fires like the Beast are commonplace. A glance at international headlines shows a remarkable increase in higher temperatures, stronger winds, and drier lands- a trifecta for igniting wildfires like we've never seen before. This change is particularly noticeable in the northern forests of the United States and Canada. These forests require fire to maintain healthy ecosystems, but as the human population grows, and as changes in climate, animal and insect species, and disease cause further destabilization, wildfires have turned into a potentially uncontrollable threat to human lives and livelihoods. Our understanding of the role fire plays in healthy forests has come a long way in the past century. Despite this, we are not prepared to deal with an escalation of fire during periods of intense drought and shorter winters, earlier springs, potentially more lightning strikes and hotter summers. There is too much fuel on the ground, too many people and assets to protect, and no plan in place to deal with these challenges. In Firestorm, journalist Edward Struzik visits scorched earth from Alaska to Maine, and introduces the scientists, firefighters, and resource managers making the case for a radically different approach to managing wildfire in the 21st century. Wildfires can no longer be treated as unavoidable events because the risk and dangers are becoming too great and costly. Struzik weaves a heart-pumping narrative of science, economics, politics, and human determination and points to the ways that we, and the wilder inhabitants of the forests around our cities and towns, might yet flourish in an age of growing megafires.
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• Introduction
• Part I: Looking back
• Chapter 1 Forest Benefits
• Chapter 2 Forest Knowledge and management
• Chapter 3 Forest governance
• Part II: Looking forward
• Chapter 4 Methods to study forests' futures
• Chapter 5 Contemporary future forest research
• Chapter 6 Reflective forest futures
• Part III: Grasping the present
• Chapter 7 Integrated approaches - in theory and practice
• Chapter 8 Efforts to bridge governance and management in Swedish forests
• Part IV Reflective Forestry
• Chapter 9 The Principles of Reflective Forestry
• Chapter 10 The toolbox of Reflective Forestry
• Chapter 11 Towards a new forest social contract?
• Main Authors: Erland Marald, Camilla Sandstroem and Annika Nordin
• Contributing Authors: Lucy Rist, Anna Stens, Karin Beland Lindahl, Annika Carlsson-Kanyama, Johanna Johansson, Carina Keskitalo, Hjalmar Laudon, Rolf Lidskog, Tomas Lamas, Tomas Lundmark, Urban Nilsson, Eva-Maria Nordstroem, Jean-Michel Roberge and Johan Sonesson.
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The influence of the past, and of the future on current-time tradeoffs in the forest arena are particularly relevant given the long-term successions in forest landscapes and the hundred years' rotations in forestry. Historically established path dependencies and conflicts determine our present situation and delimit what is possible to achieve. Similarly, future trends and desires have a large influence on decision making. Nevertheless, decisions about forest governance and management are always made in the present - in the present-time appraisal of the developed situation, future alternatives and in negotiation between different perspectives, interests, and actors. This book explores historic and future outlooks as well as current tradeoffs and methods in forest governance and management. It emphasizes the generality and complexity with empirical data from Sweden and internationally. It first investigates, from a historical perspective, how previous forest policies and discourses have influenced current forest governance and management. Second, it considers methods to explore alternative forest futures and how the results from such investigations may influence the present. Third, it examines current methods of balancing tradeoffs in decision-making among ecosystem services. Based on the findings the authors develop an integrated approach - Reflexive Forestry - to support exchange of knowledge and understandings to enable capacity building and the establishment of common ground. Such societal agreements, or what the authors elaborate as forest social contracts, are sets of relational commitment between involved actors that may generate mutual action and a common directionality to meet contemporary challenges.
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• Parrt I: Everybody's hometown. Yarnell Hill ; Fuses and bombs ; Prescott
• Part II: Our greatest ally, our fiercest foe. Heartstrong ; Red Buffalo, Black Dragon ; Crazy woman ; the bigger blowup
• Part III: The crowded forest. Mansions in the slums ; The blackline ; Slop-over ; Off to the races ; Red zones
• Part IV: Turning up the heat. Playing with fire ; Nuclear frying pan ; The vanishing forest ; The fire-industrial complex ; High park ; Firebugs ; Forest jihad
• Part V: Extended attack. Mountain shadows ; Firestorm ; Seeing red ; Never winter ; Black forest ; Trickle down
• Part VI: Backfire. Frontier days ; Defusing the time bomb ; The Doce ; Where the desert breeze meets the mountain air ; The perfect firestorm ; Trigger points ; Nineteen ; Blowback.

A journalist and forest-fire expert shares his experiences in some of the world's most dangerous and remote regions to explore the rising phenomenon of large-scale fires, the damage they cause, and how they are being battled by elite firefighters.
"A brilliant exploration of the rising phenomenon of megafires--forest fires of alarming scale, intensity, and devastation--that explains the science of what is causing them and captures the danger and heroism of those who fight them. In Megafire, a world-renowned journalist and forest fire expert travels to the most dangerous and remote wildernesses, as well as to the backyards of people faced with these catastrophic conflagrations, to look at the heart of this phenomenon and witness firsthand the heroic efforts of the firefighters and scientists racing against time to stop--or at least to tame--these deadly flames. From Colorado to California, China to Canada, the narrative hopscotches the globe and takes readers to the frontlines of the battle on the ground and in the air, and in the laboratories, universities, and federal agencies where this issue of rampant wildfires and the controversial question of how best to manage them rages on. Through this prism of perspectives, Kodas zeroes in on a handful of the most terrifying and tumultuous of these environmental disasters in recent years--the Yarnell Hill Fire in Arizona that took the lives of nineteen elite "hotshot" firefighters, the Waldo Canyon Fire that overwhelmed the city of Colorado Springs--and more in a page-turning narrative that puts a face on the brave people at the heart of this issue. Megafire describes the profound impact of these fires around the world and will change the way we think about the environment and the essential precariousness of our planet."--Jacket.

• 1. Sustainable Forest Management: From Concept to Practice
• John L. Innes
• 2. Criteria and Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management
• John L. Innes
• 3. Forest Biodiversity
• Fred Bunnell
• 4. Productivity of Forest Ecosystems
• Juan A. Blanco, Yueh-Hsin Lo, Clive Welham, and Bruce Larson
• 5. Forest Ecosystem Health and Vitality
• Richard Hamelin and John L. Innes
• 6. Maintenance of Soils
• John L. Innes
• 7. Water and Watersheds
• R. Dan Moore, Roy C. Sidle, Brett Eaton, Gomi Takahashi and David Wilford
• 8. Forests and Carbon
• John L. Innes
• 9. The Changing Socio-economic Contributions of Forestry
• Harry Nelson, Ngaio Hotte, and Robert Kozak
• 10. Social, Cultural, and Spiritual (SCS) Needs and Values
• Janette Bulkan
• 11. Public Participation in Forest Land-Use Decision-Making
• Howard Harshaw and Hosny El-Lakany
• 12. Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) from an International Perspective
• Hosny El-Lakany
• 13. Addressing Social, Economic and Environmental Objectives and Values through Decision Support Systems
• Craig R. Nitschke, Anne-Helene Mathey, Patrick O. Waeber
• 14. Assessing the Quality of Forest Management
• Anna V. Tikina
• 15. Adaptive Management: a Case Study of How Some of the Principles of SFM can be Applied in Practice
• Fred Bunnell
• 16. Conclusions
• John L. Innes.
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Sustainable Forest Management provides the necessary material to educate students about forestry and the contemporary role of forests in ecosystems and society. This comprehensive textbook on the concept and practice of sustainable forest management sets the standard for practice worldwide. Early chapters concentrate on conceptual aspects, relating sustainable forestry management to international policy. In particular, they consider the concept of criteria and indicators and how this has determined the practice of forest management, taken here to be the management of forested lands and of all ecosystems present on such lands. Later chapters are more practical in focus, concentrating on the management of the many values associated with forests. Overall the book provides a major new synthesis which will serve as a textbook for undergraduates of forestry as well as those from related disciplines such as ecology or geography who are taking a course in forests or natural resource management.
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• Prologue: conflagrating California
• California's invented fire cultures
• State of emergency
• Cajon Pass: portal to southern California
• Forests: southern California's fire rectangle
• Parks: traversing the transverse
• Imperium in Imperio
• Mending firewalls
• Force majeure
• Airing differences
• Interlude: California split
• Arch rock: portal to northern California
• The Tahoe crucible
• Working fire
• The pastures of purgatory
• The big ones
• Vignettes of primitive America: the sierra parks
• Epilogue: California between two fires.

The coastal sage and shrublands of California burn. The mountain-encrusting chaparral burns. The conifer forests of the Sierra Nevada, Cascades, and Trinity Alps burn. The rain-shadowed deserts after watering by El Nino cloudbursts and the thick forests of the rumpled Coast Range-all burn according to local rhythms of wetting and drying. Fire season, so the saying goes, lasts 13 months. In this collection of essays on the region, Stephen J. Pyne colorfully explores the ways the region has approached fire management and what sets it apart from other parts of the country. Pyne writes that what makes California's fire scene unique is how its dramatically distinctive biomes have been yoked to a common system, ultimately committed to suppression, and how its fires burn with a character and on a scale commensurate with the state's size and political power. California has not only a ferocity of flame but a cultural intensity that few places can match. California's fires are instantly and hugely broadcast. They shape national institutions, and they have repeatedly defined the discourse of fire's history. No other place has so sculpted the American way of fire. California is part of the multivolume series describing the nation's fire scene region by region. The volumes in To the Last Smoke also cover Florida, the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains, the Southwest, and several other critical fire regions. The series serves as an important punctuation point to Pyne's fifty-year career with wildland fire-both as a firefighter and a fire scholar. These unique surveys of regional pyrogeography are Pyne's way of "keeping with it to the end, " encompassing the directive from his rookie season to stay with every fire "to the last smoke.
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This book brings together the work of over twenty-five researchers to provide a comparative and empirically rich portrait of community-forestry policy and practice in Canada. Tackling all of the forestry regions from Newfoundland to British Columbia, it unearths the history of community forestry across the nation, demonstrating strong regional differences tied to patterns of policy-making and cultural traditions. Case studies reveal innovative practices in governance and ecological management but also uncover challenges related to government support and market access. This book also considers the future of the sector, including the role of institutional reform, multi-scale networks, and adaptive management strategies.
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• FOREST MANAGEMENT CONCEPTS Applying Knowledge of Natural Disturbance Regimes to Develop an Ecosystem Management Approach in Forestry Daniel Kneeshaw and Yves Bergeron Triad Forest Management: Local Fix or Global Solution Rebecca Tittler, Christian Messier, and Rosa C. Goodman Forest Wildlife Management Steven M. Grodsky, Christopher E. Moorman, and Kevin R. Russell External Drivers of Changes Challenging Forestry: Political and Social Issues at Stake Christine Farcy, Ronnie de Camino, Inazio Martinez de Arano, and Eduardo Rojas Briales Considerations of Ecosystem Services in Ecological Forest Management Christian Malouin, Guy R. Larocque, Marlene Doyle, F. Wayne Bell, Jennifer Dacosta, and Kate Liss FOREST MODELS Growth and Yield Models for Predicting Tree and Stand Productivity Robert Schneider, Tony Franceschini, Mathieu Fortin, Olivier Martin-Ducup, Vincent Gauthray-Guyenet, Guy R. Larocque, Peter Marshall, and Alexa Berube-Deschenes Forest Succession Models Guy R. Larocque, Herman H. Shugart, Weimin Xi, and Jennifer A. Holm Process-Based Models: A Synthesis of Models and Applications to Address Environmental and Management Issues Guy R. Larocque, Alexander Komarov, Oleg Chertov, Vladimir Shanin, Jinxun Liu, Jagtar S. Bhatti, Weifeng Wang, Changhui Peng, Herman H. Shugart, Weimin Xi, and Jennifer A. Holm Modeling Forest Carbon Budgets toward Ecological Forest Management: Challenges and Future Directions Weifeng Wang, Changhui Peng, and Guy R. Larocque Modeling the Impacts of Pest Damage: Case Studies for Conifers in British Columbia, Canada Michael G. Cruickshank, Rona N. Sturrock, Mario Di Lucca, and Rene I. Alfaro ECOLOGICAL INDICATORS Assessing Abundance, Biomass, and Complexity in the Context of Ecological Forest Management Virginia Capmourteres and Madhur Anand Considering Forest Biodiversity Indicators within a Pressure, State, Benefit, and Response Framework F. Wayne Bell, Jennifer Dacosta, and Guy R. Larocque Indicators of Forest Ecosystem Integrity Andre Arsenault and Guy R. Larocque Criteria and Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management Michal Bosela, Guy R. Larocque, Tanya Baycheva, Ruben Valbuena, and Markus Lier Indicating Forest Ecosystem and Stand Productivity: From Deductive to Inductive Concepts Hans Pretzsch and Thomas Rotzer Turnover Times for Wood, Forest Litter, Roots, and Soil Organic Matter Paul A. Arp Forest Ecosystem Health and Biotic Disturbances: Perspectives on Indicators and Management Approaches Kishan Sambaraju, Pierre DesRochers, Danny Rioux, Yan Boulanger, Nitin Kulkarni, Ram Keerti Verma, Marco Pautasso, Deepa Pureswaran, Veronique Martel, Christian Hebert, Michel Cusson, and Johanne Delisle ADDRESSING ECOLOGICAL AND SOCIOECONOMIC ISSUES Application of Surface Modeling for Large Regions: A Case Study for Forest Carbon Stocks in China Tian-Xiang Yue, Yi-Fu Wang, and Guy R. Larocque Comprehensive Analysis of Land Tenure Effects on the Structure and Services of Regional Forest Ecosystems Patrick Morin, Luc Sirois, and Luc Bouthillier Forest Management and Climate Change: Adaptive Measures for the Temperate-Boreal Interface of Eastern North America Laurent Gagne, Luc Sirois, and Luc Lavoie.
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Forests are valued not only for their economic potential, but also for the biodiversity they contain, the ecological services they provide, and the recreational, cultural, and spiritual opportunities they provide. The Ecological Forest Management Handbook provides a comprehensive summary of interrelated topics in the field, including management concepts, forest models, and ecological indicators. Featuring contributions from experts on the three main forest types-boreal, temperate, and tropical-this book presents in-depth coverage of important issues in ecological forest management and includes case studies addressing ecological and socioeconomic issues. It illustrates how ecological forest management is a complex process that requires broad ecological knowledge while giving readers a deeper understanding of basic principles and applications.
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• Greater Tallahassee
• Hearth: American fire's Silicon Valley
• After the revolution: Tall Timbers Research Station
• Into the open air: the National Interagency Prescribed Fire Training Center
• Our pappies are still burning the woods: the southern culture behind prescribed fire
• Not even past: Ichauway Plantation and the Jones Ecological Research Center
• The Florida Forest Service: Florida's fire fulcrum
• Interlude: the many reasons and singular reality of Florida fire
• Panhandle and peninsula
• The more things change: Eglin Air Force Base
• Regime change: St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge
• East is east, west is west: Deseret Ranches
• A tale of two landscapes: Myakka River State Park and Babcock-Webb Wildlife Management Area
• Foot in the black: the Nature Conservancy in Florida
• Fire 101 at Star Fleet Academy: Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge
• Under the dome: Big Cypress National Preserve
• The everburns: Everglades National Park
• Epilogue: Florida between two fires.

In Florida, fire season is plural, and it is most often a verb. Something can always burn. Fires burn longleaf, slash, and sand pine. They burn wiregrass, sawgrass, and palmetto. The lush growth, the dry winters, the widely cast sparks-Florida is built to burn. In this important new collection of essays on the region, Stephen J. Pyne colorfully explores the ways the region has approached fire management. Florida has long resisted national models of fire suppression in favor of prescribed burning, for which it has ideal environmental conditions and a robust culture. Out of this heritage the fire community has created institutions to match. The Tallahassee region became the ignition point for the national fire revolution of the 1960s. Today, it remains the Silicon Valley of prescription burning. How and why this happened is the topic of a fire reconnaissance that begins in the panhandle and follows Floridian fire south to the Everglades. Florida is the first book in a multivolume series describing the nation's fire scene region by region. The volumes in To the Last Smoke will also cover California, the Northern Rockies, the Great Plains, the Southwest, and several other critical fire regions. The series serves as an important punctuation point to Pyne's fifty-year career with wildland fire-both as a firefighter and a fire scholar. These unique surveys of regional pyrogeography are Pyne's way of "keeping with it to the end, " encompassing the directive from his rookie season to stay with every fire "to the last smoke.
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• Introduction : Forest conservation and management in the Anthropocene / V. Alaric Sample
• Section I. Changing climatic regimes and forest ecosystems : Climate change in the age of humans / Curt Stager
• Invasive plants, insects, and diseases in the forests of the Anthropocene / Alexander M. Evans
• Climate and wildfire in western US forests / Anthony L. Westerling, Timothy J. Brown, Tania Schoennagel, Thomas W. Swetnam, Monica G. Turner, and Thomas T. Veblen
• Forest ecosystem reorganization underway in the southwestern United States: a preview of widespread forest changes in the Anthropocene? / Craig D. Allen
• Section II. Assessing vulnerability and threats to current management regimes : Increasing resiliency in frequent fire forests: lessons from the Sierra Nevada and Western Australia / Scott L. Stephens
• Protected areas under threat / Tim Caro, Grace K. Charles, Dena J. Clink, Jason Riggio, Alexandra M. Weill, and Carolyn Whitesell
• Mitigating Anthropocene influences in forests in the United States / Chadwick Dearing Oliver
• Section III. Adaptation strategies for biodiversity conservation and water protection : Planning the future's forests with assisted migration / Mary I. Williams and R. Kasten Dumroese
• Maintaining forest diversity in a changing climate: a geophysical approach / Mark Anderson and Nels Johnson
• Adaptation: forests as water infrastructure in a changing climate / Todd Gartner, Heather McGray, James Mulligan, Jonas Epstein, and Ayesha Dinshaw
• Water source protection funds as a tool to address climate adaptation and resiliency in southwestern forests / Laura Falk McCarthy
• Section IV. Transdisciplinarity in the Anthropocene : Implementing climate change adaptation in forested regions of the western United States / Jessica E. Halofsky, Linda A. Joyce, Constance I. Millar, David L. Peterson, and Janine M. Rice
• Challenges and opportunities for large landscape-scale management in a shifting climate: the importance of nested adaptation responses across geospatial and temporal scales / Gary M. Tabor, Anne A. Carlson, and R. Travis Belote
• Climate change effects on forests, water resources, and communities of the Delaware River Basin / Will Price and Susan Beecher
• Section V. Evolving international and policy frameworks : Policy challenges for wildlife management in a changing climate / Mark L. Shaffer
• Evolving institutional and policy frameworks to support adaptation strategies / David Cleaves and R. Patrick Bixler
• Forest conservation in the Anthropocene: policy recommendations / V. Alaric Sample and Christopher Topik.

"Thought-provoking insight on overcoming the constraints of climate change and policies that need to be introduced or changed to combat the climate change on the forests of the world. Environmental scientists probe the dilemmas that confront us and will continue to confront us in the coming century"-- Provided by publisher.

Since the 1970s and 1980s, community-based forestry has grown in popularity, based on the concept that local communities, when granted sufficient property rights over local forest commons, can organize autonomously and develop local institutions to regulate the use of natural resources and manage them sustainably. Over time, various forms of community-based forestry have evolved in different countries, but all have at their heart the notion of some level of participation by smallholders and community groups in planning and implementation. This publication is FAO's first comprehensive look at the impact of community-based forestry since previous reviews in 1991 and 2001. It considers both collaborative regimes (forestry practised on land with formal communal tenure requiring collective action) and smallholder forestry (on land that is generally privately owned). The publication examines the extent of community-based forestry globally and regionally and assesses its effectiveness in delivering on key biophysical and socioeconomic outcomes, i.e. moving towards sustainable forest management and improving local livelihoods. The report is targeted at policy-makers, practitioners, researchers, communities and civil society.
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Mobilisation of Forest Bioenergy in the Boreal and Temperate Biomes: Challenges, Opportunities, and Case Studies features input from key international experts who identify and analyze the main opportunities and roadblocks for the implementation of sustainable forest biomass supply chains in the boreal and temperate regions. It draws from responses to surveys that were sent to specialists from different countries, compares models of bioenergy deployment, and discusses different types of bioenergy carriers. Efficiency and profitability of the supply chain are analyzed and the scale and level of confidence of feedstock inventory estimates are highlighted. Logistics and ecological and socio-economic footprints are also covered. This book provides a synthesis of the scientific and technical literature on specific aspects of forest biomass supply chains, and quantifies future potentials in comparison to estimates provided by other sources and the targets for bioenergy production set by various organizations (IEA, IPCC, etc.). Finally, the book proposes recommendations for practitioners, policymakers, and future research. This approach makes the book especially relevant for professionals, policymakers, researchers, and graduate students in the field of bioenergy conversion and management, as well as those interested in sustainable management of natural resources. * Presents foundational theory, examples and lessons learned, drawing on scientific and technical literature, as well as surveys conducted among stakeholders from various countries of the boreal and temperate biomes* Provides best practices, insights, and recommendations through an integrative framework that encompasses various aspects of forest biomass supply chain, at different scales, and looking at a broad geographical and geopolitical range* Compares contrasting history, policy context, and level of forest bioenergy development in several countries through several case studies* Analyzes the efficiency and profitability of the supply chain, highlighting the scale and level of confidence of feedstock inventory estimates.
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• What is an old-growth forest?
• History of the forest
• Forests and carbon
• The oldest trees
• The largest trees
• Birds and their habitat preferences
• Forests and the needs of amphibians
• Snails as indicators
• The role of insects in the forest
• Herbaceous plant populations and logging
• Mosses, liverworts, and trees
• Fungi in the forest ecosystem
• What lichens tell us about forests
• Worms: friend or foe of forests?
• Mammals that roam the forest
• Do humans need the forest?

An old growth forest is one that has formed naturally over a long period of time with little or no disturbance from human kind. They are increasingly rare and largely misunderstood. ln Nature's Temples, Joan Maloof, the director of the Old Growth Forest Network, makes a heartfelt and passionate case for their importance. This evocative and accessible narrative defines old growth and provides a brief history of forests. It offers a rare view into how the life forms in an ancient, undisturbed forest including not only its majestic trees but also its insects, plant life, fungi, and mammals - differ from the life forms in a forest manipulated by humans. What emerges is a portrait of a beautiful, intricate, and fragile ecosystem that now exists only in scattered fragments. Black and white illustrations by Andrew Joslin help clarify scientific concepts and capture the beauty of ancient trees.
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• Prologue: where the mountains roar
• Portal: Lolo Pass
• The Missoula matrix
• Why Boise is not the national center for fire
• The paradoxes of wilderness fire
• Fire's call of the wild
• Fire by parallax
• The embers will find a way
• Portal: gates of the mountains
• Young men, old men, and fire
• How I came to Mann Gulch
• What makes a fire significant?
• The big blowup
• The second big blowup
• The other big burn
• Epilogue: the Northern Rockies between two fires.

It's a place of big skies and big fires, big burns like those of 1910 and 1988 that riveted national attention. Conflagrations like those of 1934 and 2007 that reformed national policy. Blowups like that in Mann Gulch that shaped the literature of American fire. Big fires mostly hidden in the backcountry like the Fitz Creek and Howler fires that inspired the practice of managed wildfires. Until the fire revolution of the 1960s, no region so shaped the American way of fire. The Northern Rockies remain one of three major hearths for America's fire culture. They hold a major fire laboratory, an equipment development center, an aerial fire depot, and a social engagement with fire-even a literature. Missoula is to fire in the big backcountry what Tallahassee is to prescribed burning and what Southern California is to urban-wildland hybrids. On its margins, Boise hosts the National Interagency Fire Center. In this structured collection of essays on the region, Stephen J. Pyne explores what makes The Northern Rockies distinctive and what sets it apart from other regions of the country. Surprisingly, perhaps, the story is equally one of big bureaucracies and of generations that encounter the region's majestic landscapes through flame.
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• Introduction Sergio A. Molina-Murillo and Carlos Rojas Forests in a Changing World John Markham and Mauricio Fernandez Primary Production, Energy and Forest Growth Gerardo Avalos Forest Carbon Sequestration and Global Change Achim Hager and Luitgard Schwendenmann Forest Ecosystems and Civilization: An Overview of the Footprint of Modernity in the Exploitation-Conservation Relationship Anthony Goebel Mc Dermott The Economy of Forests Sergio A. Molina-Murillo and Timothy M. Smith Silviculture and Forest Management Adrian A. Monge Monge Challenges to Forest Conservation J. Edgardo Arevalo and Richard J. Ladle Forests, Sustainability and Progress: Safeguarding the Multiple Dimensions of Forests through Sustainable Practices Robin R. Sears Conclusions Carlos Rojas, Adam W. Rollins and Sergio A. Molina-Murillo.
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This book demonstrates the social, historical, and environmental framework within which humans have developed a relationship with the forest and its resources. Starting from the biological basis that permits the existence of forests to the use of forest resources in a modern human context, this book summarizes the interaction between humans and forest ecosystems. Designed for readers from a broad range of disciplines and interests including those from environmental sciences, environmental economics, sociology, anthropology, biology, forestry and human ecology and other related disciplines, the book evokes interest in the development of an integrated approach towards forest ecosystems and natural resources in the context of sustainability.
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