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Author Puettmann, Klaus J.

Title A critique of silviculture : managing for complexity / Klaus J. Puettmann, K. David Coates, Christian Messier
Published Washington, DC : Island Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 189 pages) : illustrations
Contents Historical context of silviculture -- Silviculture : challenging traditions -- Ecology : acknowledging complexity -- Silviculture and ecology : contrasting views -- Managing forests as complex adaptive systems
Summary The discipline of silviculture is at a crossroads. Silviculturists are under increasing pressure to develop practices that sustain the full function and dynamics of forested ecosystems and maintain ecosystem diversity and resilience while still providing needed wood products. A Critique of Silviculture offers a penetrating look at the current state of the field and provides suggestions for its future development. The book includes an overview of the historical developments of silvicultural techniques and describes how these developments are best understood in their contemporary philosophical, social, and ecological contexts. It also explains how the traditional strengths of silviculture are becoming limitations as society demands a varied set of benefits from forests and as we learn more about the importance of diversity on ecosystem functions and processes. The authors go on to explain how other fields, specifically ecology and complexity science, have developed in attempts to understand the diversity of nature and the variability and heterogeneity of ecosystems. The authors suggest that ideas and approaches from these fields could offer a road map to a new philosophical and practical approach that endorses managing forests as complex adaptive systems. A Critique of Silviculture bridges a gap between silviculture and ecology that has long hindered the adoption of new ideas. It breaks the mold of disciplinary thinking by directly linking new ideas and findings in ecology and complexity science to the field of silviculture. This is a critically important book that is essential reading for anyone involved with forest ecology, forestry, silviculture, or the management of forested ecosystems
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-180) and index
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Subject Forests and forestry -- North America
Forest management -- North America
Forest ecology -- North America
Forest biodiversity conservation -- North America
Logging -- North America
Electronic books.
e-books.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- Forestry.
Electronic books
Forest biodiversity conservation
Forest ecology
Forest management
Forests and forestry
Logging
Waldbau
North America
Nordamerika
Form Electronic book
Author Coates, K. David.
Messier, Christian C.
ISBN 9781610911238
1610911237