Managing Forests as Complex Adaptive Systems: Building Resilience to the Challenge of Global Change

Managing Forests as Complex Adaptive Systems: Building Resilience to the Challenge of Global Change
ISBN-10
1136335218
ISBN-13
9781136335211
Category
Nature
Pages
368
Language
English
Published
2013-02-11
Publisher
Routledge
Authors
Klaus J. Puettmann, K. David Coates, Christian Messier

Description

This book links the emerging concepts of complexity, complex adaptive system (CAS) and resilience to forest ecology and management. It explores how these concepts can be applied in various forest biomes of the world with their different ecological, economic and social settings, and history. Individual chapters stress different elements of these concepts based on the specific setting and expertise of the authors. Regions and authors have been selected to cover a diversity of viewpoints and emphases, from silviculture and natural forests to forest restoration, and from boreal to tropical forests. The chapters show that there is no single generally applicable approach to forest management that applies to all settings. The first set of chapters provides a global overview of how complexity, CAS and resilience theory can benefit researchers who study forest ecosystems. A second set of chapters provides guidance for managers in understanding how these concepts can help them to facilitate forest ecosystem change and renewal (adapt or self-organize) in the face of global change while still delivering the goods and services desired by humans. The book takes a broad approach by covering a variety of forest biomes and the full range of management goals from timber production to forest restoration to promote the maintenance of biodiversity, quality of water, or carbon storage.

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