Tropical Forestry Handbook

Dr. Laszlo Pancel, is working for the German Association for Technical Cooperation (GTZ) and director of the program of the REDD/CCAD-GIZ in El Salvador.Professor Michael Köhl is working at the University of Hamburg, at the Institute of World Forestry (Center for Wood Sciences) in Germany.

• Accounting Standards in Forest Valuation General.- Allowable cut in forest growth.- Animal Pests Affecting Tropical Forests.- Articles of the United Nations declaration on the rights of indigenous people related to land rights.- Assessment of forest management performance and chain-of-custody.- Bamboo Harvesting Techniques.- Bio deterioration of Wood General.- Biogeography and Ecology of Tropical Fires General.- Bio refinery of Wood General.- Charcoal and Charcoal Making.- Climate Change in the tropics.- Climate Types of water balance in the tropics General.- Compensation payments for Carbon Fixation (REDD).- Compensation payments for Ecosystem Services.- Concept of compensation payments and ecosystems.- Concepts and Definitions in Wildlife Management.- Conversion formulas and tables in tropical forestry.- Description, Analysis and Evaluation of Ecosystem.- Developing and managing a tropical nursery.- Disclosure in Forest Valuation.- Disorders Affecting Tropical Forests.- Ecology ofRangelands.- Economic analysis of deforestation.- Energy Balance and Nutrition of Forest Workers.- Energy Cycle in Tropical Forests.- Examples of Ecological Considerations in Forest Management.- Examples of Forestry Land Evaluation.- Fertilization in Tropical Tree Plantations.- Finishing of Wood.- Fire Management in Tropical Forests.- FLEGT.- Forest Certification Process.- Forest Communities: Reconciling national and international norms and law.- Forest Crime in the Tropics.- Forest Health and Vitality.- Forestry Extension Methods, Channels of Communication.- Forestry Land Use Planning and Management.- Forestry Project Organization General.- General statistics relevant to tropical forestry.- Glued and Composite Wood Products.- Harvest planning in forestry.- Health and Hygiene in Tropical Countries.- Heat Stress in Tropical Forests.- History of Tropical Forestry.- Image Processing of Radar and Lidar in Tropical Forestry.- Impact Monitoring and Evaluation in Watershed Management in theTropics.- Integrated Pest Management in Tropical Forestry.- Intergovernmental Organizations of Tropical Forestry.- Interpretation of Soil and Foliar Data.- Introduction to Fire Management in Tropical Forests.- Introduction to Forest Law Enforcement.- Introduction to Forest Target Group Indigenous People.- Introduction to Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFP).- Land Evaluation and Forest Land Use Planning.- Land Evaluation for Forestry.- Legal Regulations Regarding Forest Reproductive Material.- Machinery and Equipment in Harvesting.- Mangrove Habitat Biology and Forest Ecology.- Motivation and Work Organization in Forest.- Noise and Vibration in Forest.- Nutrient Storage and Mineral Cycling in Tropical Tree Plantations.- Palms.- Pitfalls and Policies for Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFP)s.- Present Requirements to Forestry Sciences General.- Processes of Soil Formation.- Protected areas as a major tropical forest conservation instrument.- Pulp and Paper.- Radiation and Heat.- Rangeland Productivity.- Rehabilitation with Forestations in the Tropics General.- Safety and Accidents in Forestry General.- Sawmilling.- Seed Collection.- Seed Handling, Storage and Distribution.- Silviculture in Tropical Moist Forests.- Socio-economic and Cultural Factors in Forestry Extension.- Socio-economic functions of forests.- Soil Management Techniques Influencing Tree Growth.- Special Issues of Forest Valuation.- Standards and standard setting procedures of forest certification.- State-of-the-Art of Common Tropical Agroforestry Practices.- Stress Grades and Design Properties for Lumber, Round Timber and Ties.- The Atmospheric Circulation General.- The Production Process in Nursery Management.- The Promise of Non-Timber Forest Products (NTFPs) and Reality.- The Reproductive Process of Trees.- The Ultimate Challenge to Mankind: Climate Change.- Timber standards based on end use.- Timber trade regulations (Lacy Act, European Timber Regulation, CITES).- Tools for Tree Species Identificationin the Tropics.- Tropical Wildlife Ecology.- Use of Geographical Information Technology in Tropical Forestry.- Use of Wildlings.- Valuation Methods for Biological Assets.- Water balance in the tropical regions.- Wood Fastenings.- Yield Regulation in Forestry.- [Many Other Topics].