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Continuous Cover Forestry in Boreal Nordic Countries
Av Pasi Rautio, Johanna Routa m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
442 kr
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This open access book compiles the latest research on continuous cover forestry in boreal forests, highlighting both the need for additional information and the exciting possibilities that this method presents. Experts in the field explore topics such as forest regeneration, genetic effects, wood …
Developing Principles and Models for Sustainable Forestry in Sweden
Av H. Sverdrup, Ingrid Stjernquist
Inbunden, 2002
2188 kr
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This text summarizes those management principles that should be valid in areas where forests continuously are used for production, where biodiversity aspects are important as well as economy and productivity, and where demands on soil status and water quality are set. The very long-term aspects are …
Continuous Cover Forestry in Boreal Nordic Countries
Av Pasi Rautio, Johanna Routa m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
551 kr
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This open access book compiles the latest research on continuous cover forestry in boreal forests, highlighting both the need for additional information and the exciting possibilities that this method presents. Experts in the field explore topics such as forest regeneration, genetic effects, wood …
Risk Analysis in Forest Management
Inbunden, 2001
1643 kr
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Due to the long-term planning horizons and the great variety of natural, economic, and operational hazards affecting forest ecosystems, uncertainty and multiple risk are typical aspects of forest management. Applications of risk analysis are surprisingly rare, in spite of the rich assortment of …
Analytic Hierarchy Process in Natural Resource and Environmental Decision Making
Av Daniel Schmoldt, Jyrki Kangas m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1643 kr
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Decision making in land management involves preferential selection among competing alternatives. Often, such choices are difficult owing to the complexity of the decision context. Because the analytic hierarchy process (AHP, developed by Thomas Saaty in the 1970s) has been successfully applied to …
Sustainable Forest Management
Av Klaus von Gadow, Timo Pukkala m. fl.
Häftad, 2001
2188 kr
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During its 200-year history the concept of sustainable forest ecosystem management has been the object of scientific and political discussion, with varying degrees of intensity - promoted with vehement fervour during periods of social or economic crisis, and less intensely during periods of …
Continuous Cover Forestry
Assessment, Analysis, Scenarios
Av Klaus von Gadow, Jürgen Nagel m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1643 kr
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The large-scale application of silvicultural systems has become a political reality in many parts of the world. This involves a gradual transformation of traditional silvicultural practice towards "continuous cover forestry" (CCF), also known as near-natural forest management, favouring mixed …
Multi-objective Forest Planning
Av Timo Pukkala
Inbunden, 2002
1643 kr
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Most of the scientific methods devised for forest planning support timber production ignoring the existence of forest functions other than wood production. Fortunately, the realisation that the forest planning methods available today do not correspond to the needs of today's forestry has activated …
Systems Analysis in Forest Resources
Proceedings of the Eighth Symposium, held September 27–30, 2000, Snowmass Village, Colorado, U.S.A.
Av Greg J. Arthaud, Tara M. Barrett
Inbunden, 2003
1643 kr
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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 …
Compatible Forest Management
Av Robert A. Monserud, Richard W. Haynes m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
3279 kr
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Public debate has stimulated interest in finding greater compatibility among forest management regimes. The debate has often portrayed management choices as tradeoffs between biophysical and socioeconomic components of ecosystems. Here we focus on specific management strategies and emphasize broad …
Computer Applications in Sustainable Forest Management
Including Perspectives on Collaboration and Integration
Av Guofan Shao, Keith M. Reynolds
Inbunden, 2006
1643 kr
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Computer Applications in Sustainable Forest Management presents state-of-the-art computer applications in a variety of specialty areas of forestry, including inventory, remote sensing, information management, modelling and visualization, biometrics, forest and harvest planning, bioeconomics and …
Forest Inventory
Methodology and Applications
Av Annika Kangas, Matti Maltamo
Inbunden, 2006
1207 kr
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This book has been developed as a forest inventory textbook for students and could also serve as a handbook for practical foresters. We have set out to keep the mathematics in the book at a fairly non-technical level, and therefore, although we deal with many issues that include highly …
Sustainable Use of Forest Biomass for Energy
A Synthesis with Focus on the Baltic and Nordic Region
Av Dominik Röser, Antti Asikainen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1098 kr
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From time immemorial, firewood has been a very important source of energy for mankind. Later in history, wood for energy decreased its importance because of other more convenient and cheaper sources, mainly fossil fuels. Today, focus is again on use of forests as a producer of energy with main …
Forest Mensuration
Av Anthonie van Laar, Alparslan Akça
Inbunden, 2007
1098 kr
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Forest mensuration is one of the most fundamental disciplines within forest and related sciences. It deals with the measurement of trees and stands and the analysis of the resultant information. During the early days of sustained forest management simple measurement and estimation methods and with …
Resource and Market Projections for Forest Policy Development
Twenty-five Years of Experience with the US RPA Timber Assessment
Av Darius M. Adams, Richard W. Haynes
Inbunden, 2007
2188 kr
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Figure 1-1. Post-World War II US assessment history. 1973)weremotivatedbytheemergingcon?ictsinthepost-WorldWar II period between rapidly increasing softwood harvests and declining timber growth. These are called the Outlook Studies. The last six studies (1980, 1985, 1989, 1993, 2000, 2005) have …
Designing Green Landscapes
Inbunden, 2008
1098 kr
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While the natural resources of the earth continue to diminish, “Green Landscapes” arebeingcalleduponto produceanincreasingrangeofgoodsandservices.A Green Landscape is a rural expanse of scenery that may comprise a variety of visible f- tures. This book focuses on forested landscapes, although much …
Managing Forest Ecosystems: The Challenge of Climate Change
Av Felipe Bravo, Valerie LeMay m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
1643 kr
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Climate changes, particularly warming trends, have been recorded around the globe. For many countries, these changes in climate have become evident through insect epidemics (e.g., Mountain Pine Beetle epidemic in Western Canada, bark beetle in secondary spruce forests in Central Europe), water …
Multi-Source National Forest Inventory
Methods and Applications
Av Erkki Tomppo, Markus Haakana m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
2187 kr
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Building on more than a decade of innovative research into multi-source forest inventory (MS-NFI) this book presents full details of the development, outputs and applications of the improved k-NN method. The method, which was pioneered in Finland in 1990, is rapidly becoming a world standard in …
Swiss National Forest Inventory – Methods and Models of the Fourth Assessment
Av Christoph Fischer, Berthold Traub
Inbunden, 2019
1970 kr
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The Swiss National Forest Inventory (NFI) is a forest survey on national level which started in 1982 and has already reached its 5th survey cycle (NFI5). It can be characterized as a multisource and multipurpose inventory where information is mainly collected from terrestrial field surveys using …
Swiss National Forest Inventory – Methods and Models of the Fourth Assessment
Av Christoph Fischer, Berthold Traub
Häftad, 2020
1970 kr
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The Swiss National Forest Inventory (NFI) is a forest survey on national level which started in 1982 and has already reached its 5th survey cycle (NFI5). It can be characterized as a multisource and multipurpose inventory where information is mainly collected from terrestrial field surveys using …
Plant-Fire Interactions
Applying Ecophysiology to Wildfire Management
Inbunden, 2020
1861 kr
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This book provides a unique exploration of the inter-relationships between the science of plant environmental responses and the understanding and management of forest fires. It bridges the gap between plant ecologists, interested in the functional and evolutionary consequences of fire in …
Plant-Fire Interactions
Applying Ecophysiology to Wildfire Management
Häftad, 2021
1861 kr
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This book provides a unique exploration of the inter-relationships between the science of plant environmental responses and the understanding and management of forest fires. It bridges the gap between plant ecologists, interested in the functional and evolutionary consequences of fire in …
Sustaining Forest Ecosystems
Av Klaus von Gadow, Juan Gabriel Álvarez González m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1207 kr
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Forest ecosystems include a great variety of communities of organisms interacting with their physical environment: multi-aged natural forests, even-aged monocultures, and secondary forests invaded by foreign species. The challenge is to sustain their ability to function, by adapting to changing …
Pines and Their Mixed Forest Ecosystems in the Mediterranean Basin
Inbunden, 2021
2515 kr
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Almost 20 years after the first MEDPINE book "Ecology, biogeography and management of Pinus halepensis and P. brutia forest ecosystems in the Mediterranean basin "(Ne'eman and Trabaud, 2000) was published, this new book presents up-to-date and state of the art information, covering a wide range of …
Pines and Their Mixed Forest Ecosystems in the Mediterranean Basin
Häftad, 2022
2515 kr
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Almost 20 years after the first MEDPINE book "Ecology, biogeography and management of Pinus halepensis and P. brutia forest ecosystems in the Mediterranean basin "(Ne'eman and Trabaud, 2000) was published, this new book presents up-to-date and state of the art information, covering a wide range of …
Fire Ecology and Management: Past, Present, and Future of US Forested Ecosystems
Av Cathryn H. Greenberg, Beverly Collins
Inbunden, 2021
2733 kr
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This edited volume presents original scientific research and knowledge synthesis covering the past, present, and potential future fire ecology of major US forest types, with implications for forest management in a changing climate. The editors and authors highlight broad patterns among ecoregions …
Fire Ecology and Management: Past, Present, and Future of US Forested Ecosystems
Av Cathryn H. Greenberg, Beverly Collins
Häftad, 2022
2733 kr
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This edited volume presents original scientific research and knowledge synthesis covering the past, present, and potential future fire ecology of major US forest types, with implications for forest management in a changing climate. The editors and authors highlight broad patterns among ecoregions …
Climate-Smart Forestry in Mountain Regions
Av Roberto Tognetti, Melanie Smith m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
551 kr
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This open access book offers a cross-sectoral reference for both managers and scientists interested in climate-smart forestry, focusing on mountain regions. It provides a comprehensive analysis on forest issues, facilitating the implementation of climate objectives. This book includes structured …
Climate-Smart Forestry in Mountain Regions
Av Roberto Tognetti, Melanie Smith m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
442 kr
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This open access book offers a cross-sectoral reference for both managers and scientists interested in climate-smart forestry, focusing on mountain regions. It provides a comprehensive analysis on forest issues, facilitating the implementation of climate objectives. This book includes structured …
Forests as Complex Social and Ecological Systems
A Festschrift for Chadwick D. Oliver
Av Patrick J. Baker, David R. Larsen m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
1861 kr
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Professor Chadwick Dearing Oliver has made major intellectual contributions to forest science and natural resources management. Over the course of his career he has actively sought to bring research and practice together through synthesis, outreach, and capacity-building. A common thread throughout …
