Resilient Forest Management by Philip J Burton HARDBACK 9780198832997

Oxford University Press

Resilient Forest ManagementAuthor(s): Philip J. Burton\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780198832997, 978-0198832997\nSynopsis\nGlobal forest management is now grappling with ways to address the many dimensions of global change, including a warming climate and increasing forest disturbance from fires and pest outbreaks, along with changes in public values. However, the dominant forest management paradigms still assume a constant and predictable world in which command-and-control ([url] treating long-lived forests much like short-lived agricultural crops) and single-value ([url] timber) optimization still prevail. \n\nThis novel text argues for new approaches to forest management that focus on resilience and embracing adaptability to the changing socio-ecological environment as it unfolds. Resilience is the ability of a system to maintain its essential attributes (in the form of composition, structure, a.