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Continuous Cover Forestry

  • Information about continuous cover forest management is urgently needed

  • People and forest landowners want to avoid clearfelling

  • Forestry paradigm is changing for plantation forestry to near-natural management

Part of the book series: Managing Forest Ecosystems (MAFE, volume 23)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
  2. Historical Emergence and Current Application of CCF

    • Jean-Philippe Schütz, Timo Pukkala, Pablo J. Donoso, Klaus von Gadow
    Pages 1-28
  3. Forest Structure and Diversity

    • Klaus v. Gadow, Chun Yu Zhang, Christian Wehenkel, Arne Pommerening, Javier Corral-Rivas, Mykola Korol et al.
    Pages 29-83
  4. Continuous Cover Forestry in Finland – Recent Research Results

    • Timo Pukkala, Erkki Lähde, Olavi Laiho
    Pages 85-128
  5. The Economics of Continuous Cover Forestry

    • Thomas Knoke
    Pages 167-193
  6. Optimizing Continuous Cover Forest Management

    • Kari Hyytiäinen, Robert G. Haight
    Pages 195-227
  7. Modelling Continuous Cover Forests

    • Jerome K. Vanclay
    Pages 229-241
  8. Resource Assessment Techniques for Continuous Cover Forestry

    • Michael Köhl, Thomas Baldauf
    Pages 273-291
  9. Back Matter

    Pages 293-296

About this book

Although the majority of the world’s forest ecosystems are dominated by uneven-sized multi-species stands, forest management practice and theory has focused on the development of plantation monocultures to maximize the supply of timber at low cost. Societal expectations are changing, however, and uneven-aged multi-species ecosystems, selectively managed as Continuous Cover Forestry (CCF), are often believed to be superior to monocultures in addressing a wide range of expectations. This book presents methods  which are relevant to CCF management and planning: analysing forest structures, silvicultural and planning, economic evaluation, based on examples in Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Forestry Sciences, University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

    Timo Pukkala

  • Burckhardt-Institute, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ec, Georg-August-University Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany

    Klaus Gadow

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eBook USD 189.00
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Softcover Book USD 279.99
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  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
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Hardcover Book USD 279.99
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