Forest Management: To Sustain Ecological, Economic, and Social Values |  | Authors: Lawrence S. Davis, K. Norman Johnson, Pete Bettinger, Theodore E. Howard
Publisher: Waveland Pr Inc
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Pages: 816
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ISBN: 1577664361
Dewey Decimal Number: 333
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Publication Date: November 25, 2005
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Applying twenty-first century analytical and quantitative ways of thinking about forest resource management problems . . . Now available from Waveland Press, the fourth edition of Forest Management—revised significantly from previous, successful editions—offers authoritative, up-to-date coverage of broad-scope concepts and ideas for those entering the fields of forest management, forest economics, and forest ecology. Viewed as large integrated ecosystems that are often owned and managed by multiple landowners, forests continue to be at the center of debates involving global warming and the sustaining of human populations. Because long-term ecological outcomes of forest management activities continue to be of heightened concern to citizens, interest groups, and regulators, the comprehensive fourth edition recognizes the scope of ecological, economic, and social outcomes from the management and use of forest lands. It provides future decision makers and stakeholders with contemporary methods to make quantitative estimates of the consequences of implementing alternative management or policy scenarios for forests. Available on the authors’ Web site are useful databases, files, and worksheets used to generate, solve, and report solutions to problems of forest management. Outstanding features and coverage! 1) includes greatly expanded exposition of the definition, measurement, and practical application of sustainability and sustained yield concepts; 2) stresses the critical role of comprehensive silvicultural prescriptions and their spatial assignment to provide for a multitude of forest outcomes, including timber, wildlife, and recreation within sustainable ecosystems; 3) provides an introduction to the concepts, methods, and applications of explicit spatial analysis of forest tracts, watersheds, and ecological units using new heuristic techniques, and illustrates the techniques using teaching models and data sets; and 4) offers examples and problems to illustrate analyses presented in the book.
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Forest Management Textbook October 15, 2008
J. Roise (North Carolina)
I've used this as a textbook in a class on Forest Management. The book covers most topics in great detail, a little too verbose for undergraduate students, but it serves as a great reference after they graduate. If anything it is a little weak on valuation, but strong on modern methods of planning. It is not out of date as long as you supplement it with current developments.
technically wonderful August 29, 2007
Anastasia L. Baima (Woodbridge, VA)
I bought this book for use in a master's class in resource managment. It is very technical and involves a lot of math.
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