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Growing Plantation Forests
Author | : P. W. West |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2013-10-21 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9783319018270 |
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This book describes the scientific principles that are used throughout the world to ensure the rapid, healthy growth of forest plantations. As the population of the world increases so does the amount of wood people use. Large areas of natural forests are being cleared every year and converted to other uses. Almost as large an area of plantation forests is being established annually to replace those lost natural forests. Eventually, plantations will produce a large proportion of the wood used around the world for firewood, building, the manufacture of paper and bioenergy. Forest plantations can also provide various environmental benefits including carbon storage, rehabilitation of degraded land, serving as disposal sites for various forms of industrial or agricultural waste and enhancing biodiversity in regions that have been largely cleared for agriculture. Whatever their motivation, plantation forest growers want their plantations to be healthy and grow rapidly to achieve their purpose as soon as possible. This book discusses how this is done. It is written for a worldwide audience, from forestry professionals and scientists through to small plantation growers, and describes how plantations may be grown responsibly and profitably.
Growing Plantation Forests
Author | : Phil W. West |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2013-11-30 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 3319018280 |
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Growing Plantation Forests
Author | : Phil West |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2006-08-02 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9783540324799 |
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In a highly readable fashion, this book describes the scientific principles which are used throughout the world to ensure rapid, healthy plantation growth. It is written for a world-wide audience, from forestry professionals and scientists through to small plantation growers, to describe how plantations may be grown responsibly and profitably. The author has been a forest scientist for over 30 years.
Ecosystem Goods and Services from Plantation Forests
Author | : Jürgen Bauhus,Peter van der Meer,Markku Kanninen |
Publsiher | : Earthscan |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781849776417 |
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Plantation forests often have a negative image. They are typically assumed to be poor substitutes for natural forests, particularly in terms of biodiversity conservation, carbon storage, provision of clean drinking water and other non-timber goods and services. Often they are monocultures that do not appear to invite people for recreation and other direct uses. Yet as this book clearly shows, they can play a vital role in the provision of ecosystem services, when compared to agriculture and other forms of land use or when natural forests have been degraded. This is the first book to examine explicitly the non-timber goods and services provided by plantation forests, including soil, water and biodiversity conservation, as well as carbon sequestration and the provision of local livelihoods. The authors show that, if we require a higher provision of ecosystem goods and services from both temperate and tropical plantations, new approaches to their management are required. These include policies, methods for valuing the services, the practices of small landholders, landscape approaches to optimise delivery of goods and services, and technical issues about how to achieve suitable solutions at the scale of forest stands. While providing original theoretical insights, the book also gives guidance for plantation managers, policy-makers, conservation practitioners and community advocates, who seek to promote or strengthen the multiple-use of forest plantations for improved benefits for society. Published with CIFOR
Fast wood Forestry Myths and Realities
Author | : Christian Cossalter,Charlie Pye-Smith |
Publsiher | : CIFOR |
Total Pages | : 66 |
Release | : 2003-08-26 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9789793361635 |
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A brief history of plantations. Environmental issues. Plantations and biodiversity. Water matters. Plantations and the soil. Pests: plantations' achilles' heel? Genetically modified trees: opportunity or treath? Plantations and global warming. Social issues. Employement: a contested balance sheet. Land tenure and conflict. Economic issues. Spiralling demand. Incentives and subsidies. Economies of scale. Costing the earth.
Plantation Forestry in the Tropics
Author | : Julian Evans |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9780198542575 |
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This new edition has been completely revised to provide up-to-date accounts of silvicultural practices, rural development issues, and the wider role that tree-planting plays. The chapters on agroforestry and protection forestry have been virutally rewritten, while throughout the book theimportant place of social forestry is recognized.
Planted Forests Contributions to the Quest for Sustainable Societies
Author | : James Reid Boyle,Jack K. Winjum,Kathleen Kavanagh,Edward C. Jensen |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2013-03-09 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9789401726894 |
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Planted forests, from irrigated eucalypts in Brazil to Douglas-fir seedlings in the mountains of Oregon, are described and discussed by international experts. The varieties, purposes, forms, and ecological, economic and social aspects of planted forests are considered in technical details and in case studies from temperate and tropical regions of the world.
Plantation Forestry in the Tropics
Author | : Julian Evans,John W. Turnbull |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2004-04-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0198509472 |
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Development of planted forests in tropical and subtropical countries is accelerating to satisfy the ever-growing global demand for wood products. It is expected that within 20 years half of all wood fibre in the world will be sourced from plantations, of which more than half are in the tropics and subtropics. Active community involvement in tree planting as part of rural development is now widespread and welcome. Plantation Forestry in the Tropics provides an overview that sets plantation silviculture in the wider context of development processes and their social, environmental and ecological impacts. The structure and approach of previous editions have been retained but every chapter has been comprehensively revised and updated. Two new chapters, one on clonal forestry, the other on ecological restoration, have been added.