Advances in Forest Inventory for Sustainable Forest Management and Biodiversity Monitoring (Hardcover, 2003 ed.)

The increasing awareness and concern of people, researchers and decision makers for the maintenance and enhancement of goods and services provided by forest ecosystems significantly widened the scope of information needs for sustainable forest management on the task-specific, integrative and strategic level. Forest resource assessments have to provide reliable, harmonized, politically relevant, cost-efficient and intuitively visible information on the multiple functions of forests in the form of statistics, georeferenced data and thematic cartography. In this perspective, the need of reviewing and discussing improvements of forest inventory and monitoring approaches is acknowledged to cope with assessment and analysis tools required for the full understanding of forest ecosystems, from local to global scales. Only a limited amount of information can be provided by adding a set of new attributes to the list of attributes commonly used in assessing the productive function of forests and utilizing traditional survey designs. The diversity of information needs that have to be satisfied by current forest resource assessments require the adoption of new survey approaches and the extension of assessment frames from forests to landscapes. This is deemed distinctively true for the issues related to sustainable forest management and biodiversity monitoring. Within this framework, the major purpose of this volume of Kluwers "Forestry Science Series" is to give readers hands-on experiences about inventory and monitoring problems and potential by reviewing a selection of approaches, methods and tools for multi-resource forest surveys, with special reference to remote sensing, statistical sampling and spatial analyses.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Forestry Sciences, 76
Release date:	December 2003
First published:	2003
Editors:	Piermaria Corona • Michael Koehl • Marco Marchetti
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	441
Edition:	2003 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-1-4020-1715-5
Categories:	Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Management of land & natural resources Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Physical geography > Forests, rainforests
LSN:	1-4020-1715-4
Barcode:	9781402017155

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