Sustainable Forest Management - Surpassing Climate Change and Land Degradation

Download or read book Sustainable Forest Management - Surpassing Climate Change and Land Degradation written by and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-07-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, Sustainable Forest Management - Surpassing Climate Change and Land Degradation, is devoted to important issues forest managers face. Besides managing forest resources, the issues addressed include aspects of climate change, biodiversity conservation, and agroforestry. The book contains four sections, each devoted to this set of topics. Forest management is very important in the context of sustainable use of resources. To achieve this, forest management should aim at improving economic profitability for the investors, preserve the ecosystem structure to serve society, and maintain all (physical, economic, social, and other) ecosystem functions. All these aspects of forest management have been addressed in various chapters of this book. The editor sincerely hopes this will be a welcome addition to the field of forest management.