Continuous Cover Forestry

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pukkala, Timo (Editor), Gadow, Klaus von (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Series: Managing Forest Ecosystems, 23
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Operations research.; Decision making.; Forestry.; Forestry management.; Environmental management.; Nature conservation.; Environmental economics.; Life Sciences.; Forestry Management.; Environmental Management.; Nature Conservation.; Environmental Economics.; Operation Research/Decision Theory.

Although the majority of the world’s forest ecosystems are dominated by uneven-sized multi-species stands, forest management practice and theory has focused on the development of plantation monocultures to maximize the supply of timber at low cost. Societal expectations are changing, however, and un...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Historical Emergence and Current Application of CCF
• 2 Forest Structure and Diversity
• 3 Continuous Cover Forestry in Finland - Recent Research Results
• 4 Regulation of Timber Yield Sustainability for Tropical and Subtropical Moist Forests: Ecosilvicultural Paradigms and Economic Constraints
• 5 The Economics of Continuous Cover Forestry
• 6 Optimizing Continuous Cover Forest Management
• 7 Modelling Continuous Cover Forests
• 8 Bootstrap simulation, Markov decision process models, and role of discounting in the valuation of ecological criteria in uneven-aged forest management
• 9 Resource Assessment Techniques for Continuous Cover Forestry.