Challenges and Opportunities for the World’s Forests in the 21st Century

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Challenges and Opportunities for the World’s Forests in the 21st Century Editor: Trevor Fenning Format: Hardback First Published: Published By: Springer
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Pages: 838 Illustrations and other contents: 106 Illustrations, color; 32 Illustrations, black and white; XVI, 838 p. 138 illus., 106 illus. in color. Language: English ISBN: 9789400770751 Categories: , , , , ,

This book addresses the challenges and opportunities faced by the world’s forests posed by climate change, conservation objectives, and sustainable development needs including bioenergy, outlining the research and other efforts that are needed to understand these issues, along with the options and difficulties for dealing with them. It contains sections on sustainable forestry & conservation; forest resources worldwide; forests, forestry and climate change; the economics of forestry; tree breeding & commercial forestry; biotechnological approaches; genomic studies with forest trees; bio-energy, lignin & wood; and forest science, including ecological studies. The chapters are contributed by prominent organisations or individuals with an established record of achievement in these areas, and present their ideas on these topics with the aim of providing a ready source of information and guidance on these topics for politicians, policy makers and scientists for many years to come.

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From the book reviews: “This work can serve as a textbook for a capstone class for forestry majors and is also a useful reference for graduate students, active forest science researchers, and forest management practitioners. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through professionals/practitioners.” (J. Chen, Choice, Vol. 51 (11), August, 2014)