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  title info:
    title: Challenges and Opportunities for the World's Forests in the 21st Century
  name:
    name part: Fenning, Trevor.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVI, 838 p. 138 illus., 106 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: This book addresses the urgent and complex threats and challenges to the world’s forests posed by the four great problems of the age: climate change, conservation objectives and sustainable development needs, and the growing demand for affordable energy. The intention is to outline the research and other efforts that are needed to understand how these issues will affect the world’s forests along with the options and difficulties for dealing with them, as well as the opportunities that the world’s forests and production forestry can offer for tackling these very issues. Included in this book are sections on (1) sustainable forestry & conservation; (2) forest resources worldwide; (3) forests, forestry and climate change; (4) the economics of forestry; (5) tree breeding & commercial forestry; (6) biotechnological approaches; (7) genomic studies with forest trees; (8) bio-energy, lignin & wood; and (9) forest science, including ecological studies. It therefore provides a wide ranging and multidisciplinary view of the role and contribution of forests and forestry for addressing some of the most critical problems and issues facing humanity in the 21st century and the interactions between them. Contributions are provided by prominent organisations or individuals with an established record of achievement in these subjects, who have been asked to present their ideas on these topics in a manner that is readily accessible to professionals from disciplines other than their own. The aim being to provide a ready source of information and guidance on these topics for a wide range of scientists, policy makers and politicians for many years to come.
  table of contents: Foreword -- Introduction -- PART 1. Sustainable Forestry & Conservation Objectives -- 1. A Burning Issue: Tropical Forests and the Health of Global Ecosystems -- 2. Silviculture of planted forests managed for multi-functional objectives: lessons from Chinese and British experiences -- 3. Forests for all? Considering the conservation implications of human-species interactions in the context of multifunctional forestry -- 4. Human engagement with forest environments – implications for physical and mental health and wellbeing -- 5. Sustainable Forest Management in China: Achievements in the Past and Challenges Ahead -- 6. The Value of Forest: An Ecological Economic Examination of People’s Perspective -- PART 2. Forest Resources Worldwide -- 7. Global trends and outlook for forest resources -- 8. Save the Forests : Use more wood -- PART 3. Forests, Forestry and Climate Change -- 9. Forests in the global carbon cycle -- 10. Forests, Forestry and Climate Change -- 11. Insect invasions and climate change in forest ecosystems -- PART 4. The Economics of Forestry -- 12. How cost-effective is forestry for climate change mitigation? -- 13. Additionality of climate change mitigation activities -- 14. Different Economic Approaches to Forest Management -- PART 5. Tree Breeding & Commercial Forestry -- 15. A Roadmap to Eucalyptus Breeding for Clonal Forestry -- 16. Conifer Somatic Embryogenesis and Multi-varietal Forestry -- 17. Modern Advances in Tree Breeding -- 18. A reality check in population management -- 19. Seed orchards and aspects on supporting tree breeding -- PART 6. Biotechnological approaches -- 20. Biosafety considerations in the context of deployment of GM trees -- 21. Scientific research related to genetically modified trees -- 22. Forest Biotechnology Futures -- 23. Research and Application of Transgenic Poplar in China -- PART 7. Genomic studies with forest trees -- 24. Genome resequencing in Populus: Revealing large-scale genome variation and implications on sp…
  note: edited by Trevor Fenning.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Conservation biology
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Forestry
  subject:
    topic: Forestry management
  subject:
    topic: Trees
  subject:
    topic: Climate change
  subject:
    topic: Life Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Forestry
  subject:
    topic: Climate Change
  subject:
    topic: Conservation Biology/Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Forestry Management
  subject:
    topic: Tree Biology
  classification: SD1-668
  classification: 634.9
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Forestry Sciences, 81
  identifier: 9789400770768
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7076-8
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    record creation date: 131202
    record change date: 20151103122719.0
    record identifier: 978-94-007-7076-8