Challenges and Opportunities for the World's Forests in the 21st Century

From the book reviews: "This work can serve as a textbook for a capstone class for forestry majors and is also a useful reference for graduate students, active forest science researchers, and forest management practitioners. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners." (J. Chen, Choice, Vol. 51 (11), August, 2014)

• Foreword.- Introduction.- PART 1. Sustainable Forestry & Conservation Objectives.- 1. A Burning Issue: Tropical Forests and the Health of Global Ecosystems.- 2. Silviculture of planted forests managed for multi-functional objectives: lessons from Chinese and British experiences.- 3. Forests for all? Considering the conservation implications of human-species interactions in the context of multifunctional forestry.- 4. Human engagement with forest environments – implications for physical and mental health and wellbeing.- 5. Sustainable Forest Management in China: Achievements in the Past and Challenges Ahead.- 6. The Value of Forest: An Ecological Economic Examination of People’s Perspective.- PART 2. Forest Resources Worldwide.- 7. Global trends and outlook for forest resources.- 8. Save the Forests : Use more wood.- PART 3. Forests, Forestry and Climate Change.- 9. Forests in the global carbon cycle.- 10. Forests, Forestry and Climate Change.- 11. Insect invasions and climate change in forest ecosystems.- PART 4. The Economics of Forestry.- 12. How cost-effective is forestry for climate change mitigation?.- 13. Additionality of climate change mitigation activities.- 14. Different Economic Approaches to Forest Management.- PART 5. Tree Breeding & Commercial Forestry.- 15. A Roadmap to Eucalyptus Breeding for Clonal Forestry.- 16. Conifer Somatic Embryogenesis and Multi-varietal Forestry.- 17. Modern Advances in Tree Breeding.- 18. A reality check in population management.- 19. Seed orchards and aspects on supporting tree breeding.- PART 6. Biotechnological approaches.- 20. Biosafety considerations in the context of deployment of GM trees.- 21. Scientific research related to genetically modified trees.- 22. Forest Biotechnology Futures.- 23. Research and Application of Transgenic Poplar in China.- PART 7. Genomic studies with forest trees.- 24. Genomeresequencing in Populus: Revealing large-scale genome variation and implications on specialized-trait genomics.- 25. Comparative and evolutionary genomics of forest trees.- PART 8. Bio-energy, lignin and wood.- 26. Willows as a potential source of renewable fuels and diverse products.- 27. Woodfuel production in the UK - unlocking the existing resource and growing for the future.- 28. Bioenergy opportunities from forests in New Zealand.- 29. Creating the wood supply of the future.- PART 9. Forest Science, including ecological studies.- 30. Planning for the future: Community genetics applications for forest biodiversity and policy.- 31. The long reach of biogenic emissions in the atmosphere.- 32. Ecological aspects of host-insect interactions on the example of Quercus robur and Tortrix viridana.- 33. Forests have survived climate changes and epidemics in the past.  Will they continue to adapt and survive? At what cost?.- 34. Horse chestnut bleeding canker – a 21st Century tree pathogen.- 35. The use of small footprint airborne LiDAR for the estimation of individual tree parameters in Sitka spruce stands.