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Forest Ecosystem Management and Timber Production - Divergence and Resource Use Resilience (Hardcover)
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Forest Ecosystem Management and Timber Production - Divergence and Resource Use Resilience (Hardcover)
Series: The Earthscan Forest Library
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Timber sourcing is shifting from extraction from natural forests to
forms of cultivation that are increasingly agricultural in nature.
This book takes a multidisciplinary approach to examine the
socio-political, biophysical and discursive dimensions of this
divergence of wood production from forests. This analysis
challenges the historical integration of wood production and forest
ecosystem management exemplified by the institutions of forestry
with their inherent wood/forest connection. This has significant
implications for how wood and forest socio-ecological systems
confront change and challenge ideas about how to achieve
sustainability. Historically, the institutions of stewardship
forestry were founded on ideals of sustainable systems in long-term
equilibrium. However, these occur within rapidly evolving social
and technological contexts that constantly challenge the
maintenance of any equilibrium. This creates considerable tension
within wood and forest socio-ecological systems and their
institutions and governance. Moving beyond adaptation to
transformation, however, requires a willingness to consider
post-forestry conditions, such as integration of emerging wood
cultivation systems into agricultural and landscape approaches, and
increasing management of extensive forest ecosystems for non-wood
values in the absence of wood production. This book includes four
case studies: a global modelling of shifts in wood production and
three national case studies (Australia, Indonesia and New Zealand),
each analysing shifts in resilience in wood and forest
socio-ecological systems using a different disciplinary approach.
This book will be of interest to advanced students, researchers and
professionals in forestry, land use, conservation, rural studies
and geography.
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