Sustainable Forest Management

Dordrecht

2000

356 S.

Ill., graph. Darst.

Bandaufführung

0-7923-6356-6

14433

77417

The first part presents three contributions concentrating on ecosystems perspectives. the focus of the first paper by Schlaepfer and Elliott is on the sustainable ecosystem-based management. The argue that foresters need to adapt to the increasing importance of landscape level planning. Certification can be a powerful tool for implementing ecosystem-based management. Hauhs and Lange derive lessons from European forest history based on the Rammelsberg mining activities and suggest ways towards operational implementation of sustainable ecosystem utilization. Dye and Bosch offer useful insights relating to the problem of sustainable water yields from afforested catchment areas in countries where water is a particulary scarce and valuable resource. The second part concentrates on social issues. Nearly 500 million people around the world rely on forests for their livelihoods, among them a high number of forest and wood workers. Bowling argues that sustainable forest management must include safe, stable jobs with adequate wages and working conditions. Because of their close relation to the forest, forest workers can play a key role in implementing sustainable practices. Making Rio work is Burger's aim and he shows how forest certification can help make sustainable development a reality. Whether it will succeed in doing so will depend on a number of factors including legal aspects and financial viability, and acknowledgement by business partners. The contribution prepared by Hütte concentrates on the different perceptions and patterns of argumentation used by foresters and nature conservation NGO's in Germany, France and Spain. Forest scientists are called upon the participate in public debate to help clarify issues related to sustainable resource management. In the third part, the emphasis is on sustainable forest management and timber supply. Roise, Cubbage, Abt and Siry present details on forest plantations and sustained yield regulation of industrial wood fiber. A sample of private and public forestry analysts in different parts of the world revealed the most important harvest regulation approaches. With sustainability as guiding principle, several components of yield regulation systems are identified by Seydack in tropical/subtropical moist forests, including yield optimisation and stand regeneration strategies and the tactical components of harvesting cycle and harvest tree selection criteria. Sustainable yield regulation systems occupy positions of varying intensity and impact on the forest ecosystem, from manipulation to mimicking of forest structure and dynamics. The final contribution by Gadow and Puumalainen specifically deals with scenario planning techniques on the forest management unit level. A series of techniques for generating timber harvest scenarios, including age-class simulation, area change models and multi-period harvest scheduling for even-aged forests and continuous cover forests are presented with numerical examples.