Challenges and Opportunities for the World's Forests in the 21st Century (Hardcover, 2014 ed.)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Forestry Sciences, 81
Release date:	December 2013
First published:	2014
Editors:	Trevor Fenning
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 37mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	838
Edition:	2014 ed.
ISBN-13:	978-9400770751
Categories:	Books > Professional & Technical > Agriculture & farming > Forestry & silviculture: practice & techniques Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Conservation of the environment > General Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Pollution & threats to the environment > Global warming
LSN:	9400770758
Barcode:	9789400770751

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