Managing Forests as Complex Adaptive Systems

Building Resilience to the Challenge of Global Change
Herausgeber: Messier, Christian; Coates, K David; Puettmann, Klaus J

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The emerging concepts of complexity, complex adaptive system (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and management are linked in this new book. It explores how these concepts can be applied in various forest biomes of the world with their different ecological, economic and social settings, and history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9780415519779
• ISBN-10: 0415519772
• Artikelnr.: 36597798

Autorenporträt

Christian Messier is Scientific Director of the Institute of Temperate Forest Sciences (ISFORT), Université du Québec en Outaouais, Québec, Canada. His research interests are broad, ranging from the life cycle of trees to developing decision-making tools to better manage large forest holdings. His research has brought him to study various biomes across the world. He holds a research chair on tree growth, and has published more than 150 referee journal papers and book chapters. Klaus J. Puettmann is Edmund Hayes Professor in Silviculture Alternatives in the Department of Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University, USA. He has been working on numerous projects related to regeneration and stand density management, with a special focus on utilizing a better understanding of ecological relationships in developing new silvicultural approaches. He works in cooperation with scientists from Europe and North America, and has published more than 60 referee journal articles in North American and European forestry and ecology journals. K. David Coates is a senior Research Silviculturist with the Ministry of Natural Resource Operations in Smithers, Canada. He has 30 years of experience in research and silvicultural application in northern British Columbia including at least 50 scientific and technical publications.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Managing Forests as Complex Adaptive Systems: Introductory Concepts and
Applications 2. An Introduction to Complexity Science 3. Tropical Forests
as Complex Adaptive Systems 4. Complexity in Temperate Forest Dynamics 5.
Exploring Complexity in Boreal Forests 6. Forest Restoration in a Changing
World: Complexity and Adaptation Examples from the Great Lakes Region of
North America 7. Meta-networks of Fungi, Fauna and Flora as Agents of
Complex Adaptive Systems 8. Complexity Confronting Tropical Silviculturists
9. Is Close-to-Nature Forest Management in Europe Compatible with Managing
Forests as Complex Adaptive Forest Ecosystems? 10. Mediterranean Forests:
Human Use And Complex Adaptive Systems 11. Fennoscandian Boreal Forests as
Complex Adaptive Systems: Properties, Management Challenges and
Opportunities 12. Management of Tasmanian Eucalypt Forests as Complex
Adaptive Systems 13. Managing Tree Plantations as Complex Adaptive Systems
14. A New Integrative Framework for Understanding and Managing the World
Forest: The Complex Adaptive System