Instant Insights: Sustainable Tropical Forest Management

Chapter 1 - An overview of tropical forest formations: Alice Muchugi, World Agroforestry (ICRAF), Kenya; Sammy Muraguri, Kunming Institute of Botany, China; Hesti L. Tata, Forest Research & Development Centre, Indonesia; Juergen Blaser, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland; and Patrick D. Hardcastle, Forestry Development Specialist, UK;

1 Introduction
2 The tropics: defining the enabling conditions for tropical forests
3 Classifying tropical forest formations
4 Structure and diversity of tropical forest ecosystems
5 Conclusion
6 References



Chapter taken from: Blaser, J. and Hardcastle, P. D. (eds.), Achieving sustainable management of tropical forests, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2020, (ISBN 978 1 78676 248 1)



Chapter 2 - Defining sustainable forest management (SFM) in the tropics: Francis E. Putz, University of Florida-Gainesville, USA; and Ian D. Thompson, Thompson Forest Ltd.-Kelowna, Canada;

1 Introduction
2 Evolving concepts of sustainability
3 Appropriate scales for assessment of SFM
4 SFM trade-offs at different scales
5 Defining terms in SFM
6 Land-use types in SFM
7 Challenges for SFM in the tropics
8 Ways forward
9 References



Chapter taken from: Blaser, J. and Hardcastle, P. D. (eds.), Achieving sustainable management of tropical forests, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2020, (ISBN 978 1 78676 248 1)



Chapter 3 - Ecosystem services delivered by tropical forests: regulating services of tropical forests for climate and hydrological cycles: Oliver Gardi, Bern University of Applied Sciences and School of Agricultural, Forest and Food Sciences HAFL, Switzerland;

1 Introduction
2 Forest-climate interactions
3 Forests in the carbon cycle
4 Climate change mitigation in the forestry and timber sector
5 Forests in the water cycle (regional scale)
6 Summary and future trends
7 Where to look for further information
8 References



Chapter taken from: Blaser, J. and Hardcastle, P. D. (eds.), Achieving sustainable management of tropical forests, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2020, (ISBN 978 1 78676 248 1)



Chapter 4 - Forest landscape restoration (FLR) of tropical forests: Stephanie Mansourian, Mansourian.org/University of Geneva, Switzerland/IUFRO, Austria;

1 Introduction
2 Implementing forest landscape restoration (FLR)
3 Case studies
4 Challenges and opportunities in taking FLR forward
5 Conclusion
6 Where to look for further information
7 References



Chapter taken from: Blaser, J. and Hardcastle, P. D. (eds.), Achieving sustainable management of tropical forests, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2020, (ISBN 978 1 78676 248 1)



Chapter 5 - Achieving sustainable management of tropical forests: overview and conclusions: Juergen Blaser, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland; Patrick D. Hardcastle, Forestry Development Specialist, UK; and Gillian Petrokofsky, University of Oxford, UK;

1 Introduction: sustainable forest management (SFM)
2 Importance of tropical forest ecology
3 Forests, climate and climate change
4 Forest loss and degradation
5 Forest products and ecological services
6 Community-based forest management (CBFM) and SFM
7 SFM and the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs)
8 Wood products, plantations and SFM
9 Monitoring and measuring for SFM
10 Shifting cultivation and SFM
11 Forest landscape restoration (FLR)
12 SFM in major tropical regions
13 Conclusions
14 References



Chapter taken from: Blaser, J. and Hardcastle, P. D. (eds.), Achieving sustainable management of tropical forests, Burleigh Dodds Science Publishing, Cambridge, UK, 2020, (ISBN 978 1 78676 248 1)