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Informationen zum Autor Jeffrey A. Sayer is Senior Associate of WWF International's Forests for Life Programme! was Founding Director General of CIFOR (1993 - 2001) and is editor of The Earthscan Reader in Forestry and Development and The Earthscan Forestry Library. Stewart Maginnis has worked in forestry in both Europe and the developing world and now heads the Forest Conservation Programme of the World Conservation Union (IUCN). Klappentext Recent innovations in Sustainable Forest Management and Ecosystem Approaches are resulting in forests increasingly being managed as part of the broader social-ecological systems in which they exist. Forests in Landscapes reviews changes that have occurred in forest management in recent decades. Case studies from Europe! Canada! the United States! Russia! Australia! the Congo and Central America provide a wealth of international examples of innovative practices. Cross-cutting chapters examine the political ecology and economics of forest management! and review the information needs and the use and misuse of criteria and indicators to achieve broad societal goals for forests. A concluding chapter draws out the key lessons of changes in forest management in recent decades and sets out some thoughts for the future.Published with IUCN Zusammenfassung Reviews changes that have occurred in forest management. This title examines the political ecology and economics of forest management, and review the information needs and the use and misuse of criteria and indicators to achieve broad societal goals for forests. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword * Preface * New Challenges for Forest Management * Economics Issues in Ecosystem Approaches to Forest Management * Information Needs for Ecosystem Forestry * Global Standards and Locally Adapted Forestry: The Problems of Biodiversity Indicators * Changing Forest Values in Europe * Empowering the Forest-Dependent Poor in India * Balancing Conflicting Values: Ecosystem Solutions in the Pacific Northwest of the United States and Canada * Wildlife! Loggers and Livelihoods in the Congo Basin * Poor Farmers and Fragmented Forests in Central America * Australian Forestry: 'Beyond One Tenure-One Use' * The Political Ecology of the Ecosystem Approach for Forests * Forests in Landscapes: Expanding Horizons for Ecosystem Forestry * Annexes! Bibliography! Index ...
