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Compatible Forest Management
Contributor(s): Monserud, Robert A. (Editor), Haynes, Richard W. (Editor), Johnson, Adelaide C. (Editor)
ISBN: 9048163889     ISBN-13: 9789048163885
Publisher: Springer
OUR PRICE:   $313.49  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: December 2010
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BISAC Categories:
- Technology & Engineering | Agriculture - Forestry
- Nature | Plants - Trees
- Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental)
Dewey: 634.92
Series: Managing Forest Ecosystems
Physical Information: 517 pages
 
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Publisher Description:
Public debate has stimulated interest in finding greater compatibility among forest management regimes. The debate has often portrayed management choices as tradeoffs between biophysical and socioeconomic components of ecosystems. Here we focus on specific management strategies and emphasize broad goals such as biodiversity, wood production and habitat conservation while maintaining other values from forestlands desired by the public. We examine the following proposition: Commodity production (timber, nontimber forest products) and the other forest values (biodiversity, fish and wildlife habitat) can be simultaneously produced from the same area in a socially acceptable manner. Based on recent research in the Pacific Northwest, we show there are alternatives for managing forest ecosystems that avoid the divisive arena of 'either-or' choices. Much of the work discussed in this book addresses two aspects of the compatibility issue. First, how are various forest management practices related to an array of associated goods and services? Second, how do different approaches to forest management affect relatively large and complex ecosystems?