Editors:
- This book tackles the enormously important and complex issues facing the world’s forests today, posed by climate change, conservation objectives, sustainable development needs, and the growing demand for affordable energy, along with analyses of the difficulties and opportunities that these present
- Contains contributions from numerous internationally recognised experts in these fields
- These articles are explicitly intended to be accessible to a wide range of users from diverse disciplines and backgrounds, who may need to gain a rapid understanding of the key issues and opportunities facing the world’s forests over the coming century, as well as for the rich contribution that forests themselves can make for dealing with these issues
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Forestry Sciences (FOSC, volume 81)
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Table of contents (36 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Sustainable Forestry and Conservation Objectives
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Front Matter
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Forest Resources Worldwide
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Front Matter
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Forests, Forestry and Climate Change
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Front Matter
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The Economics of Forestry
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About this book
Reviews
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)Editors and Affiliations
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Forest Research, Northern Research Station, UK Forestry Commission, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Trevor Fenning
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Challenges and Opportunities for the World's Forests in the 21st Century
Editors: Trevor Fenning
Series Title: Forestry Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7076-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7075-1Published: 13 December 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0221-6Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7076-8Published: 03 December 2013
Series ISSN: 0924-5480
Series E-ISSN: 1875-1334
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 838
Number of Illustrations: 32 b/w illustrations, 106 illustrations in colour
Topics: Forestry, Climate Change, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Forestry Management, Tree Biology