Creating a Forestry for the 21st Century: The Science Of Ecosytem ManagementKathryn A. Kohm, Jerry F. Franklin Over the past decade, a sea change has occurred in the field of forestry. A vastly increased understanding of how ecological systems function has transformed the science from one focused on simplifying systems, producing wood, and managing at the stand-level to one concerned with understanding and managing complexity, providing a wide range of ecological goods and services, and managing across broad landscapes.Creating a Forestry for the 21st Century is an authoritative and multidisciplinary examination of the current state of forestry and its relation to the emergent field of ecosystem management. Drawing upon the expertise of top professionals in the field, it provides an up-to-date synthesis of principles of ecosystem management and their implications for forest policy. Leading scientists, including Malcolm Hunter, Jr., Bruce G. Marcot, James K. Agee, Thomas R. Crow, Robert J. Naiman, John C. Gordon, R.W. Behan, Steven L. Yaffee, and many others examine topics that are central to the future of forestry: new understandings of ecological processes and principles, from stand structure and function to disturbance processes and the movement of organisms across landscapes challenges to long-held assumptions: the rationale for clearcutting, the wisdom of short rotations, the exclusion of fire traditional tools in light of expanded goals for forest landscapes managing at larger spatial scales, including practical information and ideas for managing large landscapes over long time periods the economic, organizational, and political issues that are critical to implementing successful ecosystem management and developing institutions to transform knowledge into action Featuring a 16-page center section with color photographs that illustrate some of the best on-the-ground examples of ecosystem management from around the world, Creating a Forestry for the 21st Century is the definitive text on managing ecosystems. It provides a compelling case for thinking creatively beyond the bounds of traditional forest resource management, and will be essential reading for students; scientists working in state, federal, and private research institutions; public and private forest managers; staff members of environmental/conservation organizations; and policymakers. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Ecological Processes and Principles | 7 |
Forest Stand Structure Composition and Function | 11 |
Disturbance Recovery and Stability | 31 |
The Biological Landscape | 57 |
Riparian Management in the 21st Century | 69 |
Biodiversity of Old Forests of the West A Lesson from Our Elders | 87 |
Silvicultural Systems and Management Concerns | 107 |
Approaches to Management at the Watershed Scale | 239 |
Landscape Analysis and Design | 255 |
Implementing Spatial Planning in Watersheds | 271 |
Forest Economics Products and Policies | 281 |
The Context for Forest Economics in the 21st Century | 285 |
Changes in Wood Products Manufacturing | 303 |
Special Forest Products Integrating Social Economic and Biological Considerations into Ecosystem Management | 315 |
The Public Interest in Private Forests Developing Regulations and Incentives | 337 |
Altemative Silvicultural Approaches to Timber Harvesting Variable Retention Harvest Systems | 111 |
Shaping Stand Development Through Silvicultural Practices | 141 |
Silvicultural Systems and Regeneration Methods Current Practices and New Alternatives | 151 |
The Role of Extended Rotations | 165 |
Integrating the Ecological Roles of Phytophagous Insects Plant Pathogens and Mycorrhizae in Managed Forests | 171 |
Fire Management for the 21st Century | 191 |
Forest Genetics for Ecosystem Management | 203 |
Approaches to Management at Larger Spatial Scales | 213 |
Ecosystem Management Managing Natural Resources in Time and Space | 215 |
The Physical Environment as a Basis for Managing Ecosystems | 229 |
Institutions in Transition | 357 |
Organizational and Legal Challenges for Ecosystem Management | 361 |
Building Bridges Across Agency Boundaries | 381 |
ScienceBased Assessments of the Forests of the Pacific Northwest | 397 |
Scarcity Simplicity Separatism Scienceand Systems | 411 |
Making Decisions in a Complex and Dynamic World | 419 |
Open Institutions Uncertainty and Ambiguity in 21stCentury Forestry | 437 |
The Emerging Role of Science and Scientists in Ecosystem Management | 447 |
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References to this book
North American Terrestrial Vegetation Michael G. Barbour,William Dwight Billings No preview available - 2000 |
America's Private Forests: Status And Stewardship Constance Best,Laurie A. Wayburn No preview available - 2001 |