Overview

This book addresses the challenges and opportunities faced by the world’s forests posed by climate change, conservation objectives, and sustainable development needs including bioenergy, outlining the research and other efforts that are needed to understand these issues, along with the options and difficulties for dealing with them. It contains sections on sustainable forestry & conservation; forest resources worldwide; forests, forestry and climate change; the economics of forestry; tree breeding & commercial forestry; biotechnological approaches; genomic studies with forest trees; bio-energy, lignin & wood; and forest science, including ecological studies. The chapters are contributed by prominent organisations or individuals with an established record of achievement in these areas, and present their ideas on these topics with the aim of providing a ready source of information and guidance on these topics for politicians, policy makers and scientists for many years to come.

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Author:   Trevor Fenning
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2014 ed.
Volume:   81
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 4.40cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.581kg
ISBN:  

9789400770751

ISBN 10:   9400770758
Pages:   838
Publication Date:   13 December 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

Forward; Yvo de Boer 1.Introduction; Trevor Fenning PART 1. Sustainable Forestry & Conservation Objectives 2. A burning issue: Tropical Forests and the Health of Global Ecosystems; Paul McMahon 3. Silviculture of planted forests managed for multi-functional objectives: lessons from Chinese and British experiences ; Bill Mason & Jiaojun Zhu 4. Forests for all? Considering the conservation implications of human-species interactions in the context of multifunctional forestry; Mariella Marzano, Christopher P. Quine & Norman Dandy 5. Human engagement with forest environments – implications for physical and mental health and wellbeing; Simon Bell & Catharine Ward Thompson 6. Sustainable forest management in China: Achievements in the past and challenges ahead; Li Nuyun 7. The Value of Forest: An Ecological Economic Examination of Forest People’s Perspective; Debal Deb PART 2. Forest Resources Worldwide 8. Global trends and outlook for forest resources; Adrian Whiteman 9. Save the forests : Use more wood; Wink Sutton PART 3. Forests, Forestry and Climate Change 10. Forests in the global carbon cycle; David Schimel 11. Forests, Forestry and Climate Change; John Grace, James Morison & Mike Perks 12. The Influence of Climate Change on Insect Invasions in Temperate Forest Ecosystems; Patrick C. Tobin, Dylan Parry & Brian H. Aukema PART 4. The Economics of Forestry 13. How cost-effective is forestry for climate change mitigation?; Gregory Valatin & Colin Price 14. Additionality of climate change mitigation activities; Gregory Valatin 15. Different Economic Approaches to Forest Management; David B. South PART 5. Tree Breeding & Commercial Forestry 16. A Roadmap to Eucalyptus Breeding for Clonal Forestry; Gabriel Dehon S.P. Rezende, Marcos Deon V. de Resende & Teotônio F. de Assis 17. Conifer Somatic Embryogenesis and Multi-varietal Forestry; Yill-Sung Park 18. Modern Advances in Tree Breeding; Yousry A. El-Kassaby, Fikret Isik & Ross W. Whetten 19. A ‘reality check’ in the management of tree breeding programmes ; Heidi S. Dungey, Alvin D. Yanchuk & Rowland D. Burdon 20. Seed orchards and aspects on supporting tree breeding; Dag Lindgren PART 6. Biotechnological approaches 21. Biosafety considerations in the context of deployment of GM trees; Hely Häggman, Suvi Sutela, Christian Walter & Matthias Fladung 22. Scientific research related to genetically modified trees; Armand Séguin, Denis Lachance, Annabelle Déjardin, Jean-Charles Leplé & Gilles Pilate 23. Forest Biotechnology Futures; Kevan M.A. Gartland & Jill S. Gartland 24. Research and Application of Transgenic Poplar in China; Jianjun Hu, Lijuan Wang, Donghui Yan & Meng-Zhu Lu PART 7. Genomic studies with forest trees 25. Genome resequencing in Populus: Revealing large-scale genome variation and implications on specialized-trait genomics; Wellington Muchero, Jessy Labbé, Priya Ranjan, Stephen DiFazio & Gerald A. Tuskan 26. Comparative and evolutionary genomics of forest trees; Andrew Groover & Stefan Jansson PART 8. Bio-energy, lignin and wood 27. Willows as a source of renewable fuels and diverse products; Angela Karp 28. Woodfuel production in the UK – unlocking the existing resource and growing for the future; Ian Tubby 29. Bioenergy opportunities from forests in New Zealand; Peter Hall & Michael Jack 30. Creating the wood supply of the future; Barry Gardiner & John Moore PART 9. Forest Science, including ecological studies 31. Community genetics applications for forest biodiversity and policy: Planning for the future; Adam S. Wymore, Helen M. Bothwell, Zacchaeus G. Compson, Louis J. Lamit, Faith M. Walker, Scott A. Woolbright & Thomas G. Whitham 32. The long reach of biogenic emissions in the atmosphere; Sanford Sillman 33. Ecological interactions of the host-insect system Quercus robur and Tortrix viridana; Hilke Schroeder & Riziero Tiberi 34. Forests have survived climate changes and epidemics in the past. Will they continue to adapt and survive?  At what cost?  Stephanos Diamandis 35. Horse chestnut bleeding canker – a 21st Century tree pathogen; S. Green, B.E.  Laue, R. Nowell, & H. Steele 36. The use of small footprint airborne LiDAR for the estimation of individual tree parameters in Sitka spruce stands; Juan C. Suárez

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)

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)

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)

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