People Forests and Change Lessons from the Pacific Northwest 1st Edition Deanne H. Olson

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1610917677
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1610917674
• Author: Deanna H. Olson (Editor), Beatrice Van Horne (Editor)

We owe much of our economic prosperity to the vast forested landscapes that cover the earth. The timber we use to build our homes, the water we drink, and the oxygen in the air we breathe come from the complex forested ecosystem that many of us take for granted. As urban boundaries expand and rural landscapes are developed, forests are under more pressure than ever. It is time to forgo the thinking that forests can be managed outside of human influence, and shift instead to management strategies that consider humans to be part of the forest ecosystem. Only then can we realistically plan for coexisting and sustainable forests and human communities in the future.

In People, Forests, and Change: Lessons from the Pacific Northwest, editors Deanna H. Olson and Beatrice Van Horne have assembled an expert panel of social and forest scientists to consider the nature of forests in flux and how to best balance the needs of forests and the rural communities closely tied to them. The book considers the temperate moist-coniferous forests of the US Pacific Northwest, but many of the concepts apply broadly to challenges in forest management in other regions and countries.  In the US northwest, forest ecosystem management has been underway for two decades, and key lessons are emerging. The text is divided into four parts that set the stage for forests and rural forest economies, describe dynamic forest systems at work, consider new science in forest ecology and management, and ponder the future for these coniferous forests under different scenarios.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1. Introduction: The Human-forest Ecosystem

Chapter 2. Setting the Stage: Vegetation Ecology and Dynamics

Chapter 3. People and Forest Plants

Chapter 4. Wood-products Markets, Communities, and Regional Economies

Chapter 5. An Ecosystem Services Framework

Section 2: Dynamic Systems as a New Paradigm

Chapter 6. Ecosystem Services with Diverse Forest Landowners

Chapter 7. Patterns of Change across the Forested Landscape

Chapter 8. Learning to Learn: The Best Available Science of Adaptive Management

Chapter 9. The Emergence of Watershed and Forest Collaboratives

Section 3: Science-based Management: How Has New Science Shaped Our Thinking?

Chapter 10. Silviculture for Diverse Objectives

Chapter 11. Long-term Forest Productivity

Chapter 12. Managing Carbon in the Forest Sector

Chapter 13. Biodiversity

Chapter 14. Aquatic-riparian Systems

Chapter 15. Watersheds and Landscapes

Section 4: Alternative Futures for Coniferous Forests

Chapter 16. Climate-smart Approaches to Managing Forests

Chapter 17. Next-generation Products and Greenhouse Gas Implications

Chapter 18. Enhancing Public Trust in Federal Forest Management

Chapter 19. The Future of Human-forest Ecosystem Sustainability

Chapter 20. Visions: 20 Years Hence

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